DEATHLY HEAT
@BigDaddyBunce
Voice of boxing
ONE referee collapsed from the heat, one boxer lost 11 pounds in weight and after 13 merciless rounds the fight between Sugar Ray Robinson and Joey Maxim finished without a death.
It was, make no mistake, a close call.
The fight was in June 1952, held in the sweltering and breathless air of an early summer night outdoors at Yankee Stadium in New York. The paid attendance was 47,983. It was for Maxim’s light-heavyweight title; Robinson had regained his middleweight version a few months earlier in front of 61,370 at the Polo
