Gene Fullmer couldn't get in his favorite combination against Ray Robinson; left hook, right, headbutt, headbutt, headbutt, headbutt, headbutt , headbutt, headbutt. Great boxer but one of the dirtiest ever.
THERE WERE SO MANY DIRTY, CLINCH FILLED AND BORING FIGHTERS THAT WERE AROUND IN THE LATE 50'S TO EARLY 60'S. GENE AND EMILE WERE THE KINGS OF BORING AND DIRTY. YOU CANT BEGIN TO IMAGINE HOW WONDERFUL AND REFRESHING IT WAS TO WITNESS THE SPRING. CASSIUS (MUHAMMAD ALI). MEANWHILE, IN MAY OF 1957, I WAS WATCHING THIS FIGHT. IT SLOWED WAY DOWN AND MORE AND MORE I STARTED FILLING IN MY COLORING BOOK. THE LAST TIME I DID THIS, I MISSED ONE THE GREATEST LEFT HOOKS OF ALL TIME BY THE GREAT ONE AT 37.
INCIDENTLY, IN HIS PRIME, SUGAR WOULD NOT EVEN HAVE CONSIDERED FULLMER FOR A SPARRING PARTNER.
IN THE LATE 50'S TO EARLY 60'S THERE WERE A LOT OF GREAT CONTENDERS ESP IN THE HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION BUT SOME NEVER GOT A CHANCE TO BE ON TV, ALL WE COULD DO WAS READ ABOUT THEM. LIKE THE MENACING SONNY. IF ALI HADNT COME ALONG AT THAT TIME, LISTON WOULD HAVE BEEN CHAMP FOR 12YRS. TO ME, HE WAS CHAMP BY AT LEAST 1958. FLOYD DUCKED HIM AND ACTUALLY DEFENDED HIS TITLE AGAINST AN AMATUER IN 1957.
The modern middleweight who was the most like fullmer was Juan Rolden but Fullmer had a better chin and more stamina. Just a bag of muscle coming at you 3 minutes every round.
Fullmer would kill De la hoya. He was one of the strongest middleweights of all time and except for this one fight had an iron chin. He ate up welterweight types.
Now THIS is a fight. Look at these two men. They're so tired that they're throwing their bodies just to punch. They were both unbelievably hungry, and the only way this fight was going to end was with one of them falling.
this man was wrecking machine smh that's one of the reason y i cnt stand floyd ,cause that dude said he's better that this man who over 100 ko ,are u kidding me ??plus he said hes better than ali & henry Armstrong lol cocky bastard
@dapperdonmilli he is the better technician but never can be close to being the fighter those guys were..floyd doesnt have a pulse to go to war thats why he is overly defensive..the only time he let his hands go was against corley who has no genuine power n that guy hurt him bad 3 times by rnd 4..
@Snako85 Even if Fullmer had beaten the count, it wouldn't have mattered. Fullmer was out on his feet, and only the referee was holding him up. He had no idea what had just happened.
Lucky? hell no , clearly Fullmer had his right hand down & Robinson decided to throw that vicious left hook . & since Fullmer didnt duck it he got rocked . I want to see You take that punch
@TheDommeran that's because society treated all black men like filth. Sugar Ray walked like a man among men and society hated him for it. Put everything in perspective then judge the man, don't be a hater I'm sure you understood the racial atmosphere of that time era, sort of like it is today to some people.
I can throw the right body shot, left body shot, left hock /uppercut to the head., just like Sugar. Impossible to master, but I'm proud of how far I got.
@finetubs Well that's pretty stupid as this fight didn't make Ray the greatest. Look at his fights against the other Hall of Famers that he fought and actually beat.
@finetubs Well that's pretty stupid as this fight didn't make Ray the greatest. Look at his fights against the other Hall of Famers that he fought and actually beat. Also how did he maul Ray when he beat him twice by decision? and he fought a well past his prime Robinson btw
@finetubs Well that's pretty stupid seeing as this fight didn't make Ray the greatest. What made Ray the greatest was his fights against the other Hall of Famers that he fought and actually beat when he was in his prime. Also how did he maul Ray when he beat him twice by decision? and he fought a well past his prime Robinson btw
@finetubs you obviously know very little about the "sweet science" . That left hook was not a product of luck or desperation but a beautifully timed counter-punch thrown with skill and power. Do yourself a favor stop being a hater, study the art pugilism, you may learn something.
Some boxing aficionados say Robinson was a much better welter than Middle and that he was not as dominating and strong as he was as a welter his supposed more natural weight. Well, here he knocked out one of the toughest, BIG and natural middleweights of all time.
I guess the guy was a pretty good middleweight as well.
Is it just me or are there a lot of fouls on Fullmer's part. I keep seeing him throwing rabbit punches and kidney punches. Then that punch to Robinson's balls. There's no way he's not doing that on purpose. The ref never seems to say anything.
@porfirij Best left hook in history? That's debatable; but yep, that was a great one, no doubt. Fullmer was on his stool after the KO and asked his manager why Sugar Ray was jumping up and down between rounds...was he doing calesthenics? His manager had to explain to him that the fight was over and he had been knocked out. Poor Gene was out of it. That might have been the only time Fullmer had been KOed. Anyone that can beat Robinson three times is a tough son-of-a-bitch.
The photograph of this left hook was used as the picture for the title page in World Book Encyclopedia's entry on the sport of boxing for the the collection dated 1960 to 1974. Plus I've heard too many boxing historians, hall-of-fame trainers, hall-of-fame fighters call this left hook that best one in boxing.
Sugar knocked that loudmouth motherfucker like there was no tomorrow.This murderer was the one who incapacitated Benny,who later died at the hands of Emile Griffith.Glad to see him (Fullmer) being destroyed.
@marciopasiotto Why all the hostility? So he hurt someone in a boxing match. That's the nature of the game. Shit happens. FYI, Fullmer beat Ray more times than Ray beat him.
@bandit7498 Where does it say that Fullmer beat Ray more times than he had beat him cause i check all over and it says Fullmer beat Ray once and ray did a rematch as u can see in this video and gave him a left hook that ended it
@clawbear It's common knowledge to most boxing fans. They publicize this one so much because Ray threw such a perfect punch. But this is the only fight of 4 they had against each other that Ray won. The next fight they had ended in a draw and Gene won their 4th fight.
@clawbear Damn brother. Ever heard of research? It's not like Sugar Ray Robinson's record is a secret or anything. Look it up for yourself. You'll appreciate it more.
@clawbear go to boxrec . com, click on names, and type in Sugar Ray Robinson, and you will find his entire 200 fight career, including his fights with Fullmer.
can someone please show me where i can find a video of fulmmer fighting i think its for a title the video is in collor not in black and white pleaseeeeeeeeeeee
the thing about robinson is the even his short punches a have power,meaning that he was born with power look how short this hook was. please dont compare robinson to some of today fighter. its a no brainer
He was just so, so good.I think the only sports man in my living memory that was so far ahead in his sport & on that level was Sir Garfield Sobers. And that was in the field of Cricket. Another sportsman who was the closiest to prefection as a man could be in his sport. Another all rounder & often called the greatest Cricketer of all time. He could bat (without protection), bowl & field at the highest level. These two Sugar Ray Robinson & Garfield Sobers were truly something else
Shane Mosley is good, but he doesn't have the knock punch in both hands like Sugar Ray Robinson. Another fact to take in consideration Sugar Ray Robinson is only of 6 men to have knockout out over 100 men in their Professional career. If we were to add on his Amatuer status knock we are looking at 170 men he knock out with either hand at Amateur and Professional level.
And remember this if Robinson had not graced the sport of boxing we might not have seen these style of fighters/boxers come into the game. Ray Robinson is the original blue print of all these fighters mentioned below.
Muhammed Ali, Sugar Shane Mosley, Meldrick Taylor, Ray Jones Junior, Sugar Ray Leonard
Yeah and the amazing thing about about Sugar Ray Robinson compared to those fighters is, as amazing as they were, it could be argued that Robinson had more knockout power than all of them, yet they get compared to Ray Robinson because of their speed and "dancing" style of boxing. Ali didn't have SRR's left hook. Meldrick Taylor had fast hands but is not as accurate and gets hit too much. Roy Jones, well obviously--chin problems. Ray Leonard--again one punch KO power like SRR? I don't think so.
And Shane Mosley? idk. The thing about today's fighters is that when they get knocked down, that's pretty much the end of the fight. If you knocked SRR down, you were in trouble. He took it as an insult and he got up quickly and found a way to win.
He was so good that these people have called him the greatest boxer/puncher in the sport of boxing that has ever step into the Ring.
Joe Louis, Willie Pep, Muhammed Ali, Cus Damato, Emmanuel Steward, Eddie Futch, Teddy Atlas, Burt Sugar, Ike Williams, Jake La Motta, .. and many many more that saw him in the flesh.
If tried to out box him, he would out box you. If you tried to knock him out by going toe to toe you would have got knocked out. Also he could take a shot so well
With this he left America, & went to fight in Europe to try & get away from it all,especially from the Mafia.
They truly loved him in Europe, especially in France.
However, the general Americian public could smell a Rat, & public demand eventually lead to Robinson being allowed to fight for a World Championship. However, he was so good that he was forced to fight Jake La Motta 6 times as no one wanted to fight him as they knew they would lose! He won 5 times out of 6 against La Motta.
He was wasn't allowed to fight for a World title because.
1. He didn't follow the rules of the Mafia or the Mob, who were ruling boxing then, and if they wanted you to lose a fight many did including Jake LaMotta. Robinson never did, and refused to go along with this.
2. The Boxing Authorites of the time didn't want another Joe Louis ruling a division for so long again. In other words they didn't want a black man holding a belt World champion belt for so long ever again.
If Sugar Robinson had of been allowed to fight for the World Weight title when he was 26 years at least. He would have stayed in the division for at least 2 to years, and then moved up to Middleweight. Can you imagine Robinson at the age of 29 years old at Middleweight. I have mentioned this before below, but its true. Remember, he wasn't allowed for any type of World title for 7 years. Some of the people he beat in those 7 years went onto to become World Champions.
Sugar Ray Robinson is not prefect. He did things in his life that I'm sure if he redo he would do them differently. However, there are alot of sports people that have done things in life that they regret. But then again he was not a bad bad man.
But most of on here are talking about the man in the sport of boxing. And to this day many people throughout the world still consider him the greatest boxer/fighter within the history of boxing.
What we are watching here is Sugar Ray Robinson aged 37 fighting for the World Championship Middleweight belt against the world champion at the time Gene Fullmer aged 26 years old (Who had never been knocked down in his life)
Sugar Ray Robinson knocked out Gene Fuller with what has been considered as the best Left Hook ever thrown in boxing.
Also Sugar was fighting a man much, much stronger then himself as was Jake La Matta & Carmin Basillo.
Sugar Ray Robinson - The Greatest of ALL Time! To paraphrase Fullmer from years later "That night he threw the most perfect left hook ever thrown... Unfortunately it landed on MY chin!" lol.... And what's this bullshit everyone on here is talking about Sugar being "over the hill"? Great fighters DO lose fights, ya know. I guess ignorant people just love to throw that phrase around.
@eluminated I agree. This nonsense about Sugar Ray being over the hill, past his prime etc. The Middleweight division was loaded with great fighters in the late 40's through the 50's. Marcel Cerdan, Tony Zale, Rocky Graziano, Fullmer, Randy Turpin, Carmen Basilio, Jake LaMotta, Kid Gavilan, Tony DeMarco etc. It was brutal. Not even Robinson could keep his record unblemished with that deep a pool of talented, tough competition.
As far as skill level, I don't think anyone can be compared to the great Sugar Ray Robinson. Had power, speed and most important the will to win. Fullmer VS Robinson when he was in his prime is a no contest.
Sugar Ray Robinson, two days shy of his thirty-sixth birthday, had landed the ultimate highlight-reel punch of all-time; a short compact left-hook that exploded flush on Fullmers jaw. It was possibly his greatest single moment as a fighter and also his last moment of true ring greatness. Later, he called the blow the most perfect punch of my career.
also although robinson wasnt in his prime he wasnt really over the hill in the way he fought, there only a little difference in the way he fought in this footage and in the early 50's.
Yep, Fullmer beat Robinson twice, Robinson beat him twice. Robinson was the underdog in all 4 due to being well past his prime. He was retired, came back from retirement due to money reasons. For Robinson vs. Fullmer, it went "Loss/Win/Win/Loss". Not taking anything away from Fullmer, it's not his fault Robinson was over the hill. Robinson fought WAY past his prime in humiliating matches.
notice how when they hold the white dude keep punching the crap out of SRR... if the white dude won any of the fights I wouldn't be surprised...SRR kept it clean but i guess for obvious reasons he couldn't do it back even if he wanted to.
@mrmarkshams the fighters that were actually real (so obviously not including rocky) did have talent. i think a lot of the time it's just down to who the writers favourite fighter is.
a movie about sugar ray would be good though. hard to pick out a 'classic' to center the film on when he had so many great fights
@mrmarkshams Good Choice. I'm Black and you're right. Hollywood needs to show some class and make movies about Max Baer, Gene Tunney (Ali copied his dancing style) Jack Dempsey, Gene Fullmer, Willie Pastrano, Willie Pep and a host of other great white fighters!
Everyone who has ever seen this video, on youtube or t.v or whatever, should consider themselves lucky. You can honestly say you have seen the best left hook ever thrown.
@CanadaMMA dont be so ridulous with that as the best left hook ever thrown yes its good but curry vs mcrory leonard vs green are just 2 that are as good !!
@sweetassugar69 Actually, this is the best left hook ever thrown. Curry's against McCrory is up there, but it's not as great as this, as Fullmer was never knocked down as a pro or amateur. Robinson threw a legit picture-perfect punch here, as did Curry, but McCrory got back up.... Fullmer did not.
They both had the same gloves - Fulmer had the same chance to do what Robinson did do. But he even at the age of 37 years old against Fulmer who was 28 years old and World Champion (at this fight!) was too elusive and fast for Fulmer.
Just think how fast he was when he was 30 years old (Robinson) and at his peak!
Joe Louis himself called Sugar Ray Robinson the greatest fighter in Boxing History.
Remember Sugar Ray Robinson used to carry his gym equipment to the Boxing gym that Joe Louis used to train & sparred at. Sugar used to watch him & get tips from Joe as well as a much younger man.He then took what he learned from Joe Louis & Henry Armstrong, & other styles that he had seen & became a much better Boxer/fighter then both of those fighters. He was the world 1st nearly 100% boxer in the sport.
eso es una leccion de boxeo robinson finaliza bien el segundo asalto domina el tercero y por poco se en mi opinion gana el cuarto y en el quinto le espera y le fulmina. fullmer tal vez no estuvo en el nivel del primer combate
That left hook of Sugar Rays is dangerous he killed a boxer named Doyle wit it I would definitly liked to have fought him at the time he was a lightweight
Fullmer is still shaking this punch off. SRR is the greatest pugllist ever. The guy was textbook with no weaknesses. Awesome combo puncher with great speed and power.
I agree that he was THE GREATEST. But he did have one weakness: defense. He did get hit quite a bit. There were greater defensive fighters-
but Sugar Ray was far better than the defensive specialists. I am not saying he lacked the defensive skills, I am saying he often preferred to go toe-to-toe and exchange shots- and he almost always came out on top in that type of exchange.
I agree with Freddie Roach- Joe Louis was the closest thing ever to technical perfection in a figher. Check out on youtube "The Subtle Skills of Joe Louis". Who can say who was the "best" fighter?
fight fans today can't relate to Louis, he wasn't flashy. There are things he did that are just above what everyone expects out a great champion. Plus, he was the hardest hitter ever. It was a different type of power, almost martial arts.
Good god these old fighters were absolute garbage. Fullmer in particular is utterly craptastic. In the ranks of greatness this fight is total rubbish.
if it wasnt for these "garbage" fighters there wouldnt be any of the great fighters we have seen of recent! to call those fights "craptastic" is a inexperienced comment. id fight (and i do box) in this era ANYDAY over then, back then if you got knocked out to many times ur career would be over from injury.
Yeah right, Fullmer looks so fucking great throwing single punch combos 6 to 8 feet away from Robinson. Very impressive and very technical!!! Oh yeah!!!!!
If this is the stuff of legends you can have your stupid Robinson, Fullmer and Basilio etc. Robinson beat a lots of mugs like Fullmer.
beatiful lead left hook!
1stplates 2 hours ago
Gene Fullmer couldn't get in his favorite combination against Ray Robinson; left hook, right, headbutt, headbutt, headbutt, headbutt, headbutt , headbutt, headbutt. Great boxer but one of the dirtiest ever.
PUGZCAT 3 weeks ago
FUCK what an era for boxing basilio fullmer robinson lamotta.
ZigZagRunner 1 month ago
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THERE WERE SO MANY DIRTY, CLINCH FILLED AND BORING FIGHTERS THAT WERE AROUND IN THE LATE 50'S TO EARLY 60'S. GENE AND EMILE WERE THE KINGS OF BORING AND DIRTY. YOU CANT BEGIN TO IMAGINE HOW WONDERFUL AND REFRESHING IT WAS TO WITNESS THE SPRING. CASSIUS (MUHAMMAD ALI). MEANWHILE, IN MAY OF 1957, I WAS WATCHING THIS FIGHT. IT SLOWED WAY DOWN AND MORE AND MORE I STARTED FILLING IN MY COLORING BOOK. THE LAST TIME I DID THIS, I MISSED ONE THE GREATEST LEFT HOOKS OF ALL TIME BY THE GREAT ONE AT 37.
ELVIS4221 2 months ago
INCIDENTLY, IN HIS PRIME, SUGAR WOULD NOT EVEN HAVE CONSIDERED FULLMER FOR A SPARRING PARTNER.
IN THE LATE 50'S TO EARLY 60'S THERE WERE A LOT OF GREAT CONTENDERS ESP IN THE HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION BUT SOME NEVER GOT A CHANCE TO BE ON TV, ALL WE COULD DO WAS READ ABOUT THEM. LIKE THE MENACING SONNY. IF ALI HADNT COME ALONG AT THAT TIME, LISTON WOULD HAVE BEEN CHAMP FOR 12YRS. TO ME, HE WAS CHAMP BY AT LEAST 1958. FLOYD DUCKED HIM AND ACTUALLY DEFENDED HIS TITLE AGAINST AN AMATUER IN 1957.
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ELVIS4221 2 months ago
Srgio Martinez ko'ing Paul Williams was waaaaay better.
Sugardaddy86 2 months ago
@Sugardaddy86 your forgetting that gene fulmer had an iron chin. and robinson punched way harder then sergio
HomeOfBritishBoxing 2 months ago
Damn... that hook is deadly. Wouldn't even wish for my enemies to get hit by that
assaprince 3 months ago
@assaprince:
I would....
tw69hands2 1 month ago
Fullmer recoiled from that left hook like his face had hit a brick wall. Gene was asking the referee if anybody had seen his legs.
ForeverYoung58 3 months ago
8:49 is the time on this video where it shows my favorite knockout of all time. Best left hook in the business, don't get any better than this.
MrBoxingcrazysal 3 months ago
The modern middleweight who was the most like fullmer was Juan Rolden but Fullmer had a better chin and more stamina. Just a bag of muscle coming at you 3 minutes every round.
shire2005 4 months ago
De la Hoya vs Fullmer ?
Dactuck 5 months ago
@Dactuck
Fullmer would kill De la hoya. He was one of the strongest middleweights of all time and except for this one fight had an iron chin. He ate up welterweight types.
shire2005 4 months ago
@shire2005 And DLH broke into the pros at 130... Fullmer was MUCH too strong for Oscar. Oscar was a better boxer though.
MADMAC572 4 months ago
Thanks for posting. Pure Greatness ON BOTH ENDS. Classic. Thank You!
Dactuck 5 months ago
“The perfect punch”
Sav24Star 6 months ago
Now THIS is a fight. Look at these two men. They're so tired that they're throwing their bodies just to punch. They were both unbelievably hungry, and the only way this fight was going to end was with one of them falling.
Nanaman12345 6 months ago
this man was wrecking machine smh that's one of the reason y i cnt stand floyd ,cause that dude said he's better that this man who over 100 ko ,are u kidding me ??plus he said hes better than ali & henry Armstrong lol cocky bastard
dapperdonmilli 6 months ago
@dapperdonmilli he is the better technician but never can be close to being the fighter those guys were..floyd doesnt have a pulse to go to war thats why he is overly defensive..the only time he let his hands go was against corley who has no genuine power n that guy hurt him bad 3 times by rnd 4..
Ronz93 4 months ago
8:49
Giovannisenzaterra 7 months ago
MONZON VS ROBINSON WHO WOULD WIN? REMEMBER MONZON LOST 2 FIGHTS ONLY
09bnunez 7 months ago
@09bnunez Robinson. Kayo. 3rd round, second if he got a little more sleep the night before
skaha77 5 months ago
MONZON VS ROBINSON WHO WOULD WIN?
09bnunez 7 months ago
@09bnunez In their prime? At Welterweight or Middleweight? Badass question. Robinson by decision.
Dactuck 5 months ago
@Dactuck
monzon didnt fight at welterweight
blueshaker1000 4 months ago
fulmer was hard as nails,everyone ray robinson fought was.lucky he had such good skills.
carawai 8 months ago
THAT... WAS... BEAUTIFUL...
JDezi4 8 months ago
the dislike bar is as big as Justin Bieber's dick
greekboi1996 8 months ago
robinson looked like he was coming in from the right side.. fullmer never expected...lights out...
Eddieshack67 9 months ago
fullmer got up by 10 so why did they count him as KO
Snako85 9 months ago
@Snako85 He wasn't fully up and he didn't have his hands in a fighting position. The ref wants your hands up and ready before the count of 10.
youlosez 8 months ago
@Snako85 Even if Fullmer had beaten the count, it wouldn't have mattered. Fullmer was out on his feet, and only the referee was holding him up. He had no idea what had just happened.
ForeverYoung58 1 month ago
Lucky? hell no , clearly Fullmer had his right hand down & Robinson decided to throw that vicious left hook . & since Fullmer didnt duck it he got rocked . I want to see You take that punch
Trey029 10 months ago
Robinson, P4P the greatest boxer to have walked the planet.
Too bad outside the ring he was a terrible human being. An absolute piece of filth.
TheDommeran 10 months ago
@TheDommeran that's because society treated all black men like filth. Sugar Ray walked like a man among men and society hated him for it. Put everything in perspective then judge the man, don't be a hater I'm sure you understood the racial atmosphere of that time era, sort of like it is today to some people.
1foxydaddy 10 months ago
@1foxydaddy what did that guy mean by SRR being bad man outside the ring... i watched his fights and he actually seemed like a pretty nice guy
marinlille 8 months ago
"That's one sweet fighter you've got there!"
"Yea! Sweet as sugar!"
QRF11B 10 months ago
I can throw the right body shot, left body shot, left hock /uppercut to the head., just like Sugar. Impossible to master, but I'm proud of how far I got.
Haassan1 10 months ago
fullmer mauled him 2x and thruout this fite,ray gets in one lucky shot and everyone thinks he's the greatest,sheesh
finetubs 11 months ago
@finetubs Well that's pretty stupid as this fight didn't make Ray the greatest. Look at his fights against the other Hall of Famers that he fought and actually beat.
PRIDEFC17 11 months ago
@finetubs Well that's pretty stupid as this fight didn't make Ray the greatest. Look at his fights against the other Hall of Famers that he fought and actually beat. Also how did he maul Ray when he beat him twice by decision? and he fought a well past his prime Robinson btw
PRIDEFC17 11 months ago
@finetubs Well that's pretty stupid seeing as this fight didn't make Ray the greatest. What made Ray the greatest was his fights against the other Hall of Famers that he fought and actually beat when he was in his prime. Also how did he maul Ray when he beat him twice by decision? and he fought a well past his prime Robinson btw
PRIDEFC17 11 months ago
@finetubs IT wasnt lucky ,dude. Ray assaulted the body with 2 real good shots just before the KO.
Haassan1 10 months ago
@finetubs you obviously know very little about the "sweet science" . That left hook was not a product of luck or desperation but a beautifully timed counter-punch thrown with skill and power. Do yourself a favor stop being a hater, study the art pugilism, you may learn something.
1foxydaddy 10 months ago
Greatest left hook you will see and his right hand in the 10th against randy turpin was prob the most vicious i think ive ever seen.
p4p #1..there is no other.
SugarRayP4P 11 months ago
gene fullmer goes to my church, u nvr woulda guessed he was a boxer, his son is also aboxer, go figure, his fist is as big as my head
guitarfreak9111 1 year ago
El màs grande, habilidad y poder, contra un hombre màs joven y que pegaba duro.
elmagomerlin03 1 year ago
Hmmm.
Some boxing aficionados say Robinson was a much better welter than Middle and that he was not as dominating and strong as he was as a welter his supposed more natural weight. Well, here he knocked out one of the toughest, BIG and natural middleweights of all time.
I guess the guy was a pretty good middleweight as well.
ballisticbliss 1 year ago
@ballisticbliss
Damn... Just imagine how he was at welterweight... Its almost terrifying to consider
JDezi4 8 months ago
his left hook was so beautiful.
MrRothstein44 1 year ago
The greatest ever. He would have wiped out anyone at Welter thru middle. Speed and power.
easyscore 1 year ago
Is it just me or are there a lot of fouls on Fullmer's part. I keep seeing him throwing rabbit punches and kidney punches. Then that punch to Robinson's balls. There's no way he's not doing that on purpose. The ref never seems to say anything.
markbenand 1 year ago
watch @ 7:53 fullmer almost knocks out the ref but the refs got some skills
02337755 1 year ago 13
best left hook in the history of boxing @ 8:49
porfirij 1 year ago 6
@porfirij Best left hook in history? That's debatable; but yep, that was a great one, no doubt. Fullmer was on his stool after the KO and asked his manager why Sugar Ray was jumping up and down between rounds...was he doing calesthenics? His manager had to explain to him that the fight was over and he had been knocked out. Poor Gene was out of it. That might have been the only time Fullmer had been KOed. Anyone that can beat Robinson three times is a tough son-of-a-bitch.
ForeverYoung58 3 months ago
@ForeverYoung58:
The photograph of this left hook was used as the picture for the title page in World Book Encyclopedia's entry on the sport of boxing for the the collection dated 1960 to 1974. Plus I've heard too many boxing historians, hall-of-fame trainers, hall-of-fame fighters call this left hook that best one in boxing.
tw69hands2 1 month ago
that's just an amazing knockout
GottaLoveBoxing 1 year ago
one of the best left hooks I've ever seen. your right they should make a movie about him they are making about micky ward
mercyanpeace 1 year ago
WOw that was the greatest left hook of all time. Awsome Power and timing!! :))))
JohnRagoon 1 year ago
underrated left hook was thomas hearns..vicious to the body...
jezelljr 1 year ago
awesome footage, amazing, SUGAR RAY ROBINSON - THE GREATEST
what a left hook, sweet as sugar
paul4mula 1 year ago
It's clear Ray's all around the better technician. He's just old and doesn't have the work rate he used to.
Whyavier 1 year ago
just like Donaire's KO of Darchinyan
bennyfifty 1 year ago
what a left hook.. no fighter will ever be the total package that robinson was
sh0nuff23 1 year ago
Fullmer was very strong, but he couldn't keep up with the Sugar! Robinson knocked him out going backwards!
mrbuck1188 1 year ago
OMG it looked like it barely even hit him
rikuinproductions 1 year ago
@rikuinproductions Oh no, that hit him PERFECT
mS28811 1 year ago
fuck, look at how that left lands. he doesn't just knock fullmer out with it, he knocks him entirely over.
Robstailey 1 year ago
sugars reflexes are just amazing
Blackjesus3 1 year ago
Sugar ray robinson is the best ever, that left hook is one of the best punches that i have ever seen.
81Rick18 1 year ago
Sugar knocked that loudmouth motherfucker like there was no tomorrow.This murderer was the one who incapacitated Benny,who later died at the hands of Emile Griffith.Glad to see him (Fullmer) being destroyed.
marciopasiotto 1 year ago
@marciopasiotto Why all the hostility? So he hurt someone in a boxing match. That's the nature of the game. Shit happens. FYI, Fullmer beat Ray more times than Ray beat him.
bandit7498 1 year ago
@bandit7498 Where does it say that Fullmer beat Ray more times than he had beat him cause i check all over and it says Fullmer beat Ray once and ray did a rematch as u can see in this video and gave him a left hook that ended it
clawbear 1 year ago
@clawbear It's common knowledge to most boxing fans. They publicize this one so much because Ray threw such a perfect punch. But this is the only fight of 4 they had against each other that Ray won. The next fight they had ended in a draw and Gene won their 4th fight.
bandit7498 1 year ago
@bandit7498
show me a source where they fought 4 times i wanna see
clawbear 1 year ago
@clawbear Damn brother. Ever heard of research? It's not like Sugar Ray Robinson's record is a secret or anything. Look it up for yourself. You'll appreciate it more.
bandit7498 1 year ago
@bandit7498 still haven't seen a source.
clawbear 1 year ago
@clawbear Then obviously you haven't been looking. Just look up his fucking record. Why keep badgering me about it?
bandit7498 1 year ago
@clawbear go to boxrec . com, click on names, and type in Sugar Ray Robinson, and you will find his entire 200 fight career, including his fights with Fullmer.
ihatelifejosemartine 1 year ago
@clawbear Troll, troll, troll your boat...
ph133710101 1 year ago
@ph133710101 shh go upload more shitty videos
clawbear 1 year ago
@clawbear You can look it up on Boxrec.com. Fullmer fought Robinson four times, Fullmer won two, Robinson won once with this knockout, and one draw.
ForeverYoung58 1 month ago
@marciopasiotto sugar ray killed doyle. he had a dream about it the night before the fight too.
Robstailey 1 year ago
Почему у Робинсона ноги такие темные??
dodobo1 1 year ago
can someone please show me where i can find a video of fulmmer fighting i think its for a title the video is in collor not in black and white pleaseeeeeeeeeeee
haris000000 1 year ago
Gene Fullmer is not a idiot from utah, i am actually related to him. He is like my great grandfather's cousin.
coltonfullmer 2 years ago 7
uh huh
john6times 2 years ago
Searosly, no ofence intended but your relative got a good beating of of sugar ray but gene fulmer is a great boxer as well
rage6480 1 year ago
@coltonfullmer Yeah he's also laying on the floor right above this comment...LMAO!!!!
MrSlik25 9 months ago
the thing about robinson is the even his short punches a have power,meaning that he was born with power look how short this hook was. please dont compare robinson to some of today fighter. its a no brainer
SLIMZD 2 years ago
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P4p775 2 years ago
nevermind bro robinson was naturally stronger because he can take his weight all the way up to 160 and still have power.
i dont know maybe molsey gots to do the same, but comparisms are there though. robinsons can box way better also.
P4p775 2 years ago
What a Beautiful left hook!!!
dehgrah 2 years ago
SRR ..THE BEST EVER!!!!!
easyscore 2 years ago 2
fullmer was one rough and tough customer but like them all he lost to a picture perfect left hook by the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time
EMCEMITCH 2 years ago
i was in the crowd that night high on weed
jigglyfidda125 2 years ago 3
Cont:2:
He was just so, so good.I think the only sports man in my living memory that was so far ahead in his sport & on that level was Sir Garfield Sobers. And that was in the field of Cricket. Another sportsman who was the closiest to prefection as a man could be in his sport. Another all rounder & often called the greatest Cricketer of all time. He could bat (without protection), bowl & field at the highest level. These two Sugar Ray Robinson & Garfield Sobers were truly something else
redjam40 2 years ago
Shane Mosley is good, but he doesn't have the knock punch in both hands like Sugar Ray Robinson. Another fact to take in consideration Sugar Ray Robinson is only of 6 men to have knockout out over 100 men in their Professional career. If we were to add on his Amatuer status knock we are looking at 170 men he knock out with either hand at Amateur and Professional level.
redjam40 2 years ago
i think mosley does man, but shows it at times his fastfeet is gone from shane mosley.
but mosley does show those images though.
P4p775 2 years ago
I agree Shane Mosley is the closest guy that comes to Ray robinsons style, thats why he has the nickname Sugar ;)
Khaled4life 2 years ago
yea but dont forget mosley cant box like robinson did and leonard.
P4p775 2 years ago
Thats not what I said, I said Shane Mosley is style wise the closest to come to Sugar ray robinson, not that he was a better boxer.
Khaled4life 2 years ago
hit & hold hit & tie up everytime a boxer holds they should have played the tennessee waltz hehehehe
jeryd2003 2 years ago
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And remember this if Robinson had not graced the sport of boxing we might not have seen these style of fighters/boxers come into the game. Ray Robinson is the original blue print of all these fighters mentioned below.
Muhammed Ali, Sugar Shane Mosley, Meldrick Taylor, Ray Jones Junior, Sugar Ray Leonard
redjam40 2 years ago 3
Yeah and the amazing thing about about Sugar Ray Robinson compared to those fighters is, as amazing as they were, it could be argued that Robinson had more knockout power than all of them, yet they get compared to Ray Robinson because of their speed and "dancing" style of boxing. Ali didn't have SRR's left hook. Meldrick Taylor had fast hands but is not as accurate and gets hit too much. Roy Jones, well obviously--chin problems. Ray Leonard--again one punch KO power like SRR? I don't think so.
FrizzyBlue 2 years ago 2
@FrizzyBlue Truly ahead of his time... these dudes didnt even belong in the ring with him
MarchalRaines9 2 years ago
And Shane Mosley? idk. The thing about today's fighters is that when they get knocked down, that's pretty much the end of the fight. If you knocked SRR down, you were in trouble. He took it as an insult and he got up quickly and found a way to win.
FrizzyBlue 2 years ago
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He was so good that these people have called him the greatest boxer/puncher in the sport of boxing that has ever step into the Ring.
Joe Louis, Willie Pep, Muhammed Ali, Cus Damato, Emmanuel Steward, Eddie Futch, Teddy Atlas, Burt Sugar, Ike Williams, Jake La Motta, .. and many many more that saw him in the flesh.
If tried to out box him, he would out box you. If you tried to knock him out by going toe to toe you would have got knocked out. Also he could take a shot so well
redjam40 2 years ago 2
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With this he left America, & went to fight in Europe to try & get away from it all,especially from the Mafia.
They truly loved him in Europe, especially in France.
However, the general Americian public could smell a Rat, & public demand eventually lead to Robinson being allowed to fight for a World Championship. However, he was so good that he was forced to fight Jake La Motta 6 times as no one wanted to fight him as they knew they would lose! He won 5 times out of 6 against La Motta.
redjam40 2 years ago
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He was wasn't allowed to fight for a World title because.
1. He didn't follow the rules of the Mafia or the Mob, who were ruling boxing then, and if they wanted you to lose a fight many did including Jake LaMotta. Robinson never did, and refused to go along with this.
2. The Boxing Authorites of the time didn't want another Joe Louis ruling a division for so long again. In other words they didn't want a black man holding a belt World champion belt for so long ever again.
redjam40 2 years ago
If Sugar Robinson had of been allowed to fight for the World Weight title when he was 26 years at least. He would have stayed in the division for at least 2 to years, and then moved up to Middleweight. Can you imagine Robinson at the age of 29 years old at Middleweight. I have mentioned this before below, but its true. Remember, he wasn't allowed for any type of World title for 7 years. Some of the people he beat in those 7 years went onto to become World Champions.
redjam40 2 years ago
G*O*A*T
dquelwest 2 years ago
In that Amateur record he even beat the legendary - Willie Pep!
And Willie Pep is considered to being the greatest Defensive Boxer the World has seen.
Remember this as well. He fought more World champions or people that held the belt as a World Champion then anyone in the History of Boxing!
That's how good he was!
redjam40 2 years ago
Sugar Ray Robinson is not prefect. He did things in his life that I'm sure if he redo he would do them differently. However, there are alot of sports people that have done things in life that they regret. But then again he was not a bad bad man.
But most of on here are talking about the man in the sport of boxing. And to this day many people throughout the world still consider him the greatest boxer/fighter within the history of boxing.
Just check his record at amateur status alone!
redjam40 2 years ago
What we are watching here is Sugar Ray Robinson aged 37 fighting for the World Championship Middleweight belt against the world champion at the time Gene Fullmer aged 26 years old (Who had never been knocked down in his life)
Sugar Ray Robinson knocked out Gene Fuller with what has been considered as the best Left Hook ever thrown in boxing.
Also Sugar was fighting a man much, much stronger then himself as was Jake La Matta & Carmin Basillo.
Just think if he was fighting at the age of 30!
redjam40 2 years ago
that punch gave me nightmares after the 2 body shots WOW PURE GREATNESS !!!!!!
dquelwest 2 years ago
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ballisticbliss 2 years ago
EXACTLY!.
He beat great fighters at not only is his none-prime weight but at an advanced age with a million fights under his belt. The guy was amazing!
So yes, he would have been more devastating as a middle when younger.
ballisticbliss 2 years ago
salty gay robinson was a cunt who beat his kids - very overrated
MrPalspal 2 years ago
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sparwood8 2 years ago
Best Middleweights ever.
1. Sugar Ray Robinson
2. Marvin Hagler
3. Carlos Monzon
ballisticbliss 2 years ago
Jones Jr at Middleweight was alot better than Hagler or Monzon.
Kingofmean 2 years ago
Two words: Harry Greb. Robinson was the greatest welterweight for sure but for me it goes Greb, Monzon, Hagler at middleweight.
essexboy240 2 years ago
Sugar Ray Robinson - The Greatest of ALL Time! To paraphrase Fullmer from years later "That night he threw the most perfect left hook ever thrown... Unfortunately it landed on MY chin!" lol.... And what's this bullshit everyone on here is talking about Sugar being "over the hill"? Great fighters DO lose fights, ya know. I guess ignorant people just love to throw that phrase around.
eluminated 2 years ago
@eluminated I agree. This nonsense about Sugar Ray being over the hill, past his prime etc. The Middleweight division was loaded with great fighters in the late 40's through the 50's. Marcel Cerdan, Tony Zale, Rocky Graziano, Fullmer, Randy Turpin, Carmen Basilio, Jake LaMotta, Kid Gavilan, Tony DeMarco etc. It was brutal. Not even Robinson could keep his record unblemished with that deep a pool of talented, tough competition.
ForeverYoung58 1 month ago
his left hook is the strongest. he killed contender jimmy doyle with it in a single blow
jigglyfidda125 2 years ago
As far as skill level, I don't think anyone can be compared to the great Sugar Ray Robinson. Had power, speed and most important the will to win. Fullmer VS Robinson when he was in his prime is a no contest.
hardsinger39 2 years ago
Man he throws the most beautiful combos and with power.
easyscore 2 years ago
Sugar Ray Robinson, two days shy of his thirty-sixth birthday, had landed the ultimate highlight-reel punch of all-time; a short compact left-hook that exploded flush on Fullmers jaw. It was possibly his greatest single moment as a fighter and also his last moment of true ring greatness. Later, he called the blow the most perfect punch of my career.
Fr33Fisting 2 years ago
also although robinson wasnt in his prime he wasnt really over the hill in the way he fought, there only a little difference in the way he fought in this footage and in the early 50's.
sugarnadf 2 years ago
This guy beat Robinson twice... but you can't find those fights.
LiquidIndian911 2 years ago
Yep, Fullmer beat Robinson twice, Robinson beat him twice. Robinson was the underdog in all 4 due to being well past his prime. He was retired, came back from retirement due to money reasons. For Robinson vs. Fullmer, it went "Loss/Win/Win/Loss". Not taking anything away from Fullmer, it's not his fault Robinson was over the hill. Robinson fought WAY past his prime in humiliating matches.
Fr33Fisting 2 years ago
actually robinson won only 1 fight.1 was a draw the other 2 was a win for fullmer
sugarnadf 2 years ago
notice how when they hold the white dude keep punching the crap out of SRR... if the white dude won any of the fights I wouldn't be surprised...SRR kept it clean but i guess for obvious reasons he couldn't do it back even if he wanted to.
MeBao 2 years ago
SRR, BEST EVER!
ballisticbliss 2 years ago
It's about time they made a movie about this man, he's the greatest of all time for a reason.
NeoOsiris19 2 years ago 15
@NeoOsiris19 They're making a movie?
tqm1994 1 year ago
@NeoOsiris19
Nah Hollywood only likes making movies about white fighters with zero talent. But If they do Jamie Fox would be my choice to play Ray Robbinson.
mrmarkshams 1 year ago
@mrmarkshams the fighters that were actually real (so obviously not including rocky) did have talent. i think a lot of the time it's just down to who the writers favourite fighter is.
a movie about sugar ray would be good though. hard to pick out a 'classic' to center the film on when he had so many great fights
toforgiveistosuffer 10 months ago
@mrmarkshams Good Choice. I'm Black and you're right. Hollywood needs to show some class and make movies about Max Baer, Gene Tunney (Ali copied his dancing style) Jack Dempsey, Gene Fullmer, Willie Pastrano, Willie Pep and a host of other great white fighters!
bangitslo 10 months ago
Those two rights set it up. Brilliant.
easyscore 2 years ago
Everyone who has ever seen this video, on youtube or t.v or whatever, should consider themselves lucky. You can honestly say you have seen the best left hook ever thrown.
CanadaMMA 2 years ago 23
@CanadaMMA dont be so ridulous with that as the best left hook ever thrown yes its good but curry vs mcrory leonard vs green are just 2 that are as good !!
sweetassugar69 1 year ago
@sweetassugar69 Actually, this is the best left hook ever thrown. Curry's against McCrory is up there, but it's not as great as this, as Fullmer was never knocked down as a pro or amateur. Robinson threw a legit picture-perfect punch here, as did Curry, but McCrory got back up.... Fullmer did not.
ihatelifejosemartine 1 year ago
@CanadaMMA
so true!
ThimplyTheBestht 1 year ago
@CanadaMMA ---sugar Ray had the best L hook ever ---along with Joe Frazier.
loyaldude10 1 year ago
@CanadaMMA Holy shiite, you ain't kiddin
ph133710101 1 year ago
best leading hand punch ive ever seen
lilbennyt 2 years ago
They both had the same gloves - Fulmer had the same chance to do what Robinson did do. But he even at the age of 37 years old against Fulmer who was 28 years old and World Champion (at this fight!) was too elusive and fast for Fulmer.
Just think how fast he was when he was 30 years old (Robinson) and at his peak!
redjam40 2 years ago
those gloves look tiny...no wonder he blasted fullmer away with them! lol
SmackNcrack01 2 years ago
Fullmer was a real tough kid! They just dont make em' like this anymore lol
SmackNcrack01 2 years ago
Joe Louis himself called Sugar Ray Robinson the greatest fighter in Boxing History.
Remember Sugar Ray Robinson used to carry his gym equipment to the Boxing gym that Joe Louis used to train & sparred at. Sugar used to watch him & get tips from Joe as well as a much younger man.He then took what he learned from Joe Louis & Henry Armstrong, & other styles that he had seen & became a much better Boxer/fighter then both of those fighters. He was the world 1st nearly 100% boxer in the sport.
redjam40 2 years ago
Dippercat and lemonite1 your analysis of Joe Louis is spot on.
JediKnight1007 2 years ago
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redjam40 2 years ago
ese ko es pa verle 100 veces
grandescirea 2 years ago
eso es una leccion de boxeo robinson finaliza bien el segundo asalto domina el tercero y por poco se en mi opinion gana el cuarto y en el quinto le espera y le fulmina. fullmer tal vez no estuvo en el nivel del primer combate
grandescirea 2 years ago
That left hook of Sugar Rays is dangerous he killed a boxer named Doyle wit it I would definitly liked to have fought him at the time he was a lightweight
kingzay310 2 years ago
These fighters were more than most fighters today.
Whyavier 2 years ago
Fullmer is still shaking this punch off. SRR is the greatest pugllist ever. The guy was textbook with no weaknesses. Awesome combo puncher with great speed and power.
ballisticbliss 2 years ago
I agree that he was THE GREATEST. But he did have one weakness: defense. He did get hit quite a bit. There were greater defensive fighters-
but Sugar Ray was far better than the defensive specialists. I am not saying he lacked the defensive skills, I am saying he often preferred to go toe-to-toe and exchange shots- and he almost always came out on top in that type of exchange.
dippercat 2 years ago
Yeah. But good thing he had a good chin and body. :D
nkrm015 2 years ago
Exactly- Sugar Ray had a TREMENDOUS chin, TREMENDOUS courage, and the killer instinct.
He and Joe Louis were the two greatest finishers ever- if they stunned or hurt a fighter, he never survived.
dippercat 2 years ago
God forbid ya' ever hit one of those guys. If ya' knocked them down, boy were you in deep trouble.
lemonite1 2 years ago
The funny thing is, your'e underrating him. Robby was the BEST.
lemonite1 2 years ago
I agree with Freddie Roach- Joe Louis was the closest thing ever to technical perfection in a figher. Check out on youtube "The Subtle Skills of Joe Louis". Who can say who was the "best" fighter?
dippercat 2 years ago
fight fans today can't relate to Louis, he wasn't flashy. There are things he did that are just above what everyone expects out a great champion. Plus, he was the hardest hitter ever. It was a different type of power, almost martial arts.
lemonite1 2 years ago 2
then you obviously don't appreciate boxing as a sport, just as entertainment.
Antonmorrisisalegend 2 years ago
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Good god these old fighters were absolute garbage. Fullmer in particular is utterly craptastic. In the ranks of greatness this fight is total rubbish.
You monkeys sure know alot about mediocrity.
set2light 2 years ago
if it wasnt for these "garbage" fighters there wouldnt be any of the great fighters we have seen of recent! to call those fights "craptastic" is a inexperienced comment. id fight (and i do box) in this era ANYDAY over then, back then if you got knocked out to many times ur career would be over from injury.
back then they wer fuckin hard men,
Antonmorrisisalegend 2 years ago 2
Yeah right, Fullmer looks so fucking great throwing single punch combos 6 to 8 feet away from Robinson. Very impressive and very technical!!! Oh yeah!!!!!
If this is the stuff of legends you can have your stupid Robinson, Fullmer and Basilio etc. Robinson beat a lots of mugs like Fullmer.
set2light 2 years ago
Tyson made a career out of koing scrubs
skydome29 2 years ago
definitely 1 of the most beautiful KO's in ring history! what leverage.
judaschongo 2 years ago 2
THE GREATEST OF ALL -TIME!!
brownhornet71 2 years ago
Not bad for an old man, Roy Jones Jr. was already washed up at that age.
hamshow 2 years ago
Not bad at all!
brownhornet71 2 years ago