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Robinson had a vivid dream shortly before the scheduled fight. Worse still was the respiratory paralysis which was treated with infusions of oxygen and carbon dioxide.

@denisemadamme He was seriously injured. A quite vivid and chilling recollection of the dream Robinson had, without a doubt. Doyle would require hospitalization due to a severe concussion and take a nine-month layoff from which he would return to win his next five in a row before attempting to swipe the welterweight crown from atop Sugar Ray Robinson’s gleaming pompadour. A priest was summoned, Sugar Ray was assured it was ‘only a dream’ and Doyle was permitted to meet his fate. Doyle was unconscious. Bell rattled off 29 consecutive victories going into the championship fight and put Sugar Ray down in the 2nd round, more than holding his own before being dropped himself in the 11th and losing a somewhat lopsided unanimous decision. My yellin’ woke me up, I guess.

Robinson’s pink Cadillac was a frequent and welcome sight parked out front of the café or maneuvering through traffic between Harlem and mid-town Manhattan. A badly shaken Robinson took his appeals for a postponement to the boxing commission when he saw that he was getting nowhere with George Gainford who ultimately called in a local clergyman. Nonetheless, Marie Doyle was also a recipient of Robinson’s altruistic indulgence. Sugar Ray Robinson (born Walker Smith Jr. (1921 – 1989) is considered one of the greatest professional boxers of all time. Law enforcement investigated the death, weighing whether to bring homicide charges against Robinson. Sugar Ray Robinson voicelessly cursed himself for allowing everyone to overrule his reticence over whether the fight should even happen. Gennady Golovkin vs Sergiy Derevyanchenko ON For Oct. 5! Ambivalent about his long-term pugilistic prospects, Doyle was intent on buying his mother a house with his earnings and was very well aware that nothing brought in the cash faster than a title belt strapped around one’s waist. ( Log Out /  Asked after the fight if it had been his intention to “get Doyle in trouble” (this the basic equivalent of asking a succesful football striker, after a match, if he had intended to score goals), Sugar answered, “Mister, it’s my business to get him in trouble.” Robinson was soon exonerated of all blame for Jimmy’s death. After nursing cuts suffered during another non-title outing against Georgie Abrams, Robinson finally signed a contract to make his first defense against Jimmy Doyle who rectified a spotty start to his career with 24 straight wins before running into Artie Levine and his left hook on March 11, 1946. The two boxers gave and took with all of their strength and skill.

Long before his money would vanish hand in hand with his memory, Sugar Ray would establish a trust fund built upon the cornerstone of winnings from his next several fights so that Marie could buy the house her son Jimmy did not live to give her.

Robinson not only regained his composure but was the clear aggressor throughout, establishing and maintaining the advantage in all of the first five rounds. Jimmy lay there, unable to rise. Doyle had been a fine fighter, a skilled contender who had wins over the likes of Tommy Bell and Lew Jenkins. So, I follow Kal Yafai on Instagram and he posted that Sugar Ray Robinson dreamt he would kill Jimmy Doyle during their fight in 1947. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. The 22 year old never regained consiousness and he passed away the next day. Jimmy Doyle: 1924 to 1947 The efforts to change Robinson’s mind were successful, and the fight took place as scheduled. I just laid there, tossin’ around in bed.. And I felt lousy the next day. @MTDemocrat Robinson knocked out opponent Jimmy Doyle in a 1947 Welterweight championship fight. “That’s how Artie Levine could scramble your brains,” Robinson laughed well after the fact. Why did I let everybody talk me out of it?”. Very possibly the only reason Robinson was able to pick his body, his senses, and his pride off the floor before surviving, rejuvenating, and knocking Levine out in the 10th had to do with the fact that referee Jackie Davis personally escorted Artie to a neutral corner rather than simply order him to do so on his own as protocol dictates, making Ray the beneficiary of a 21-second long count. @DianaBaggett2 Yes!! Change ). The fight would be held on June 24, 1947 at the Cleveland Arena, site of Doyle’s loss to Levine as well as two more recent wins over Ralph Zannelli and Danny Kapilow. @politicalsluts

In no way did Sugar Ray Robinson ever enjoy knocking out any man. Robinson remembered his trainer George Gainford repeatedly attempting to impress upon him what round it was before finally penetrating through the fog in Sugar Ray’s head. He said, “In the dream, Jimmy Doyle was in the ring with me.

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Hushed disturbances emanating from the horror-stricken spectators gain slow measures of audible alarm. In his dream, Robinson was fighting Jimmy Doyle. On June 26, 1947, Sugar Ray Robinson was scheduled to fight 22-year-old Jimmy Doyle. Outworking and outpunching Levine through the first eight rounds and well ahead on points, Doyle was kept from continuing his valiant effort by Jackie Davis (of Robinson/Levine long count infamy) following the third knockdown administered by Artie in the ninth. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Reminiscing over their fight together on Curt Gowdy and Don Dunphy’s mid-1970s stroll down memory lane called The Way It Was, Sugar Ray Robinson and Rocky Graziano were asked to name the heaviest puncher each man had faced. I just wanted some clarification on this. Interrogated by Gerber, Ray (now fearful of the very real possibility of manslaughter charges, which had also been levied against Max Baer following the 1930 ring death of Frankie Campbell) was made to feel like a body snatcher prowling for an innocent victim when asked why he chose Jimmy Doyle as his opponent. “He picked me,” Robinson reminded him. Doyle was the first boxer to die in a world title fight. It’s no myth, instead a true story, that Paul McCartney, arguably the finest songwriter of the 20th century, dreamed one of his finest compositions: ‘Yesterday’ And it’s no myth, instead a true story, that Sugar Ray Robinson, arguably the finest boxer of the 20th century (if not of all-time) dreamed ahead of one of his word title fights that he would actually kill his opponent: Jimmy Doyle. Coroner Samuel Gerber opened an official inquest which was both medical and judicial in nature. In the days preceding his meeting with Doyle, Ray Robinson was staying at the Cleveland home of a friend named Roger Price and it was there that he experienced an awful dream the night before the fight. On June 26, 1947, Sugar Ray Robinson was scheduled to fight 22-year-old Jimmy Doyle. Although absolved by the authorities, Robinson still carried personal responsibility in his heart. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. He’s dead.”. Jimmy stirred when it reached “four”, blindly reaching out to grasp the bottom ring rope but finding only empty space. The bell tolled at the count of “nine” and Doyle was hoisted back to his corner where Davis lectured his cornermen for failing to sufficiently revive their fighter for the beginning of round nine before being made aware of Jimmy’s grim condition. In his autobiography, Robinson told the chilling story of a dream he had prior to his bout with Doyle. @CelticTiger357

Sugar Ray Robinson, Jimmy Doyle, and a Dream Come Horribly True. The fight took place on June 24th in 1947 and Robinson scored a KO that was as chilling as his bad dream had been. @LeeAnnMessenge1 And pointing at Amy with the pen! But now, with Doyle stretched out and his eyes blank, I had that empty feeling you get when something in your life is really wrong, and all I could think of was the dream. Following this first of six world title wins, Robinson admitted to accepting an immediate string of quick and easy paydays-against journeymen Bernie Miller, Freddie Wilson, and Eddie Finazzo in just over a week-so that he could concentrate on the grand opening of the Sugar Ray Café on the 7th Avenue block between 123rd and 124th Streets which he purchased in its entirety, adding a real estate agency, bar and grill, and barbershop. Yet the fight went on. Sadly and tragically, another of his dreams turned into reality, and it haunted Robinson for the rest of his life. It soon became clear that Doyle was not just knocked out. Least of all Jimmy Doyle. In the end, it was concluded that Robinson did nothing inappropriate. The punch sent Doyle to the canvas. October 16th, 2015 Bad Brad . Artie Levine. (PCM) In the year of 1947, boxing legend Sugar Ray Robinson was set to fight 22-year old boxer Jimmy Doyle for the Welterweight Championship.

As in out of the fight: “I woke up in a cold sweat, yellin’ for Jimmy to get up – get up – get up! Six weeks later, Robinson was matched against Tommy Bell for the welterweight title vacated by the retired Marty Servo, a fighter Ray had beaten twice and who suffered a deviated septum at the hands of Rocky Graziano in a non-title bout that March, briefly ending his career until launching a two-fight comeback in 1947 with a 50/50 success rate. @SARA2001NOOR Miles Davis, of all people, convinced Robinson to hang up the gloves for good on November 20, 1965 following a split decision loss during which he was knocked down in the 4th round by Joey Archer who journalist and boxing enthusiast Pete Hamill joked “couldn’t break a potato chip with a punch”. If Tic Tacs Contain 94.5% Sugar, Why Are They Labeled as "Sugar-Free"? Official Account of "Bad" Brad BerkwittFollow. Jonh lewis They received $50 a month (equivalent to $582.78 in 2020) over ten years. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account.

But disturbing. And in the back of my mind I felt scared every time I thought about the coming fight.”. Robinson was never a fight fan, as he said himself many times, the sport being too brutal for the man born Walker Smith Junior to enjoy watching.

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