In 1959, Sugar Ray Roinson, middleweight champ went to a promoter to arrange to fight Floyd Patterson in California for the heavyweight championship.The fight never happened.Instead, Patterson fought Johannson and was kayoed and lost the title.
2006-08-02 10:23:16 · 6 answers · asked by The Duke 3 in Sports ➔ Boxing
sugar ray robinson was 39 years old and patterson was in his early 20's when the fight was proposed.
2006-08-02 10:30:44 · update #1
changing classes is never an easy thing to do in any sort of fighting, especialing going up a calss, but i'd still say Sugar robinson simply because of his legacy and good philly shell defense.
2006-08-02 10:28:20 · answer #1 · answered by tom m 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In the context of when Robinson wanted the fight to happen I'm assuming it would take place in 1959 or 1960. Therefore I take Patterson.
2006-08-02 11:45:08 · answer #2 · answered by Brent 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A dream fight has participants in their prime.
Robinson - W 173 (KO's 108) TF 200 - wins over Gavilan, Olson and LaMotta. Greatest of all time, period.
Patterson - W 55 (KO's) TF 64 - wins over Moore, Bonavena, Cooper and Chuvalo - KO'ed by Liston, Ali and Johansson. First man to recover Hwy wt title.
Unless Robinson could pull a Roy Jones, he would definitely lose this one.
2006-08-02 14:23:54 · answer #3 · answered by smitty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Patterson would be knocked by Floyd by round 4.
2015-01-24 06:39:21 · answer #4 · answered by Daniel 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that Floyd would have been too strong for Robinson and knocked him out in 9 rounds.
2006-08-03 17:57:58 · answer #5 · answered by toughguy2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sugar ray baby- the original contender
2006-08-02 10:32:40 · answer #6 · answered by lalakers 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋