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Mastering the sweet science
®HBO Sports presents
documentary on Sugar
Ray Robinson. Wynton
Marsalis composes
original score for hour
long retrospective.
Sugar Ray Robinson: The Bright
Lights and Dark Shadows of a
Champion, the HBO Sports docu
mentary on the life of the prize
fighter cited by many as the proud
est pound-for-pound fighterin box
ing history, will be shown several
times this month. From the pro
ducers of HBO’s multiple Emmy
Award-winning documentary on
Sonny Liston, the hour-long film
will explore Robinson’s unparal
leled ring career, which included
202 professional fights, the inno
vations he brought to the business
sideofthe sport, and his intriguing
lifestyle. Wynton Marsalis com
posed, conducted and performed
original music for the film.
“Sugar Ray Robinson is the stan
dard by which boxers are mea
sured,” said Ross Greenburg, se
nior vice president and executive
producer of HBO Sports. “Yet it
was Sugar Ray’s flair and style out
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Scott Glenn has appeared in a number of
film, television and stage roles. His feature
film credits include The Right Stuff,
Silverado, Apocalypse Now, Personal Best,
The Silence of the Lambs, Backdraft, The
Hunt for Red October, Courage Under Fire,
and Absolute Power. Glenn recently starred
in the features Firestorm, Ken Loach’s
Carla’s Song, Tall Tales,the American Play
house production of Reckless with Mia Far
row and Mary Louise Parker, as well as in
Mike Figgis’, Mara. opposite Juliette
Binoche. Glenn just completed filming the
feature The Last Marshall and is currently
starring on Broadway in “Killer Joe.”
Courtney B. Vance will next be seen in
Robert Altman’s Cookie’s Fortune and the
cable film Ambushed. Vance'’s other fea
ture film credits include The Preacher’s
Wife, Hamburger Hill, The Hunt for Red
October, Panther, Dangerous Minds, Ad
ventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Last
Supper. For television, he most recently
appeared in the films 12 Angry Men and
Blind Faith for SHOWTIME. His other
television credits include The Boys Next
Door, The Tuskegee Airmen and The Piano
Man. For his portrayal in the cable film
The Affair, Vance received a CableACE
Award nomination for Best Actor.
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teenager, competing in the Police
Athletic League competition at age
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age 16, he was fighting bootleg
amateurs; when he showed up for
an amateur fight without docu
mentation, his trainer handed him
the card of someone named Ray
Robinson. The name stuck, and he
went on to compile a brilliant 85-0
amateur record, including two
Golden Gloves titles.
Robinson turned pro in 1940.
Winning the world welterweight
championshipin 1946, he defended
the crown five times before moving
tothe middleweight division, where
he gained the world championship
belt on Feb. 14, 1951, battering
Jake LaMotta in a fight labeled
“The Valentine’s Day Massacre.”
From 1945 to mid-1951,
Robinson wasthe dominant fighter
in the 147-pound division and the
sport’s brightest personality.
Heavyweight champ Joe Louis
called him the “greatest fighter
ever to step into the ring.”
Robinson’s incomparable pro ca
reer lasted 24 years; his record was
175-19-6 (109 KOs) and two no-con
tests. Upon hisretirement in 1965 at
age 44, he had fought 18 different
world champions and engaged Jack
LaMotta six times, winning five of
their titanic struggles. Regarded as
the consummate fight tactician, he
possessed potent knockout power
from anywhere in the ring.
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to mid
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was the
dominant
fighter in
the 147-
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division and
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brightest
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weight
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champion includes:
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champion Jake LaMotta, who
fought Sugar Ray six times: “No
one else wanted to fight him. And
no one else wanted to fight me, so
thank God he was around so we
fought each other.”
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