Robinson - Whitaker
Common Opponents - Freddie Pendleton, Azumah Nelson
Robinson
Stopped Nelson for the WBC super featherweight title in his seventeenth fight, three years after his lose to Whitaker...
Met a no worse for wear Pendleton, also three years after Whitaker and struggled at times but kayoed in the eighth to claim the IBF lightweight title.
Whitaker
Comfortably decisioned both in back-to-back fights in 1990 when defending his lightweight crowns.
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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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