Quote Originally Posted by Greig
Don't think you are right about Robinson signing to fight Patterson. Check this video out I enjoyed it immensely.

I've dug out my dvd collection. It's on the Sugar Ray Pound For Pound documentary.

It was in the spring of 1959. He flies out to Los Angeles to enter negotiations with Floyd Patterson with hundreds of people waiting for him at the airport after learning of a rumour that he's there to arrange a fight with Patterson.

Getting off the plane an interviewer asks him if the rumours are true and he confirms a million dollar offer had been made and he was in Calafornia to work on negotiations.

The narrator then goes on to say the fight was derailed after Patterson suffered a shock loss to Ingemar Johannson.

By the way it's a brilliant documentary and well worth looking out for.

Cc for the Robinson La Motta vids, thats the first time I've actually seen La Motta say his famous 'Diabete's quote'!