Randy Turpin

British boxer

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association with Robinson

  • Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson, wearing white shorts, punching Carmen Basilio in the face with his left hand during a 1958 fight.
    In Sugar Ray Robinson

    …lost the middleweight title to Randy Turpin of England in 1951 and regained it from Turpin later that year. In 1952 he narrowly missed defeating Joey Maxim for the light-heavyweight (175-pound) crown and a few months later retired.

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