Robinson Files Injuction
The IBF champion Sugar Ray Robinson has filed a preliminary injunction to de-sanction the March 18th contest between Gonzalez and Nelson.
Robinson has filed on the grounds that he was wrongly passed over to fight for the WBC title, a contest he says he is entitled to as mandatory challenger.
He also claims that after defeating Leavander Johnson, ranked second with the WBC, his position cannot be disputed as first in line for the championship.
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"I occasionally agreed to carry an opponent, almost always in what is known as a tune-up fight. I never considered it morally wrong as long as I was winning the fight. I was never a killer, like some fighters. I never enjoyed knocking out a guy who I knew had no chance to beat me." Sugar Ray Robinson
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