BOXER

Sugar Ray Robinson

1921 - 1989

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Walker Smith Jr. (May 3, 1921 – April 12, 1989), better known as Sugar Ray Robinson, was an American professional boxer who competed from 1940 to 1965. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sugar Ray Robinson has received more than 6,969,922 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Sugar Ray Robinson is the 6th most popular boxer (up from 9th in 2019), the 596th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,095th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Boxer.

Sugar Ray Robinson is most famous for being the first boxer to win the world welterweight and middleweight titles in the same year.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BOXERS

Among boxers, Sugar Ray Robinson ranks 6 out of 496. Before him are Muhammad Ali, Rocky Marciano, Joe Frazier, Mike Tyson, and George Foreman. After him are Joe Louis, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Max Schmeling, Jake LaMotta, Sonny Liston, and Carlos Monzón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Sugar Ray Robinson ranks 27. Before him are Gunnar Nordahl, Paulo Freire, Patricia Highsmith, Nancy Reagan, Yitzhak Navon, and Satyajit Ray. After him are Vasily Smyslov, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Vasily Stalin, Gianni Agnelli, John Glenn, and Jane Russell. Among people deceased in 1989, Sugar Ray Robinson ranks 28. Before him are Sándor Márai, Andrei Gromyko, Thomas Bernhard, Hu Yaobang, Ferdinand Marcos, and Silvana Mangano. After him are Emilio Segrè, George Beadle, Daphne du Maurier, Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, John Hicks, and Joris Ivens.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sugar Ray Robinson ranks 596 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Solow (1924), Boris Johnson (1964), James Baldwin (1924), Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), Robert Kardashian (1944), and Ellen Burstyn (1932). After him are Jack Kilby (1923), Allen Ginsberg (1926), Georgia O'Keeffe (1887), Jim Jarmusch (1953), Art Garfunkel (1941), and Goldie Hawn (1945).

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Among BOXERS In United States

Among boxers born in United States, Sugar Ray Robinson ranks 6. Before him are Muhammad Ali (1942), Rocky Marciano (1923), Joe Frazier (1944), Mike Tyson (1966), and George Foreman (1949). After him are Joe Louis (1914), Floyd Mayweather Jr. (1977), Jake LaMotta (1922), Sonny Liston (1932), Evander Holyfield (1962), and Jack Dempsey (1895).

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