Sugar Ray Robinson

January 1957

(l.to. r. George Gainsford, Ernie Braca and Harold "Killer" Johnson advisors to Ray Robinson)

Filing a protest with I.B.C. regarding Referee Ruby Goldstein for allowing repeated rabbit punches and holding during Robinson's January 1957 Middleweight Championship fight with Gene Fullmer at Madison Square Garden in which Fullmer was awarded a 15 round decisiion.

"Roscoe Bennett, a sportswriter for the Grand Rapids Press...wrote 'They point to the rabbit punches, the wild flailing to the back of the head and the neck, and the persistent clinching...' Boxing rules decree that only punches to the front and side of the body are legitimate blows. Fullmer landed more punches to Sugar Ray's back than he did to the front and side of the body, two to one'"

-Pound for Pound. A Biography of Sugar Ray Robinson by Herb Boyd with Ray Robinson II

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Vintage Original First Generation Salas Photograph

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Two paragraph description of the events handwritten by Salas in Spanish.

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