People actually didn't like Ray Robinson in his prime for the same reasons people didn't like RJJ or Mayweather, he was cocky, arrogant, and he is perhaps the fighter who carried opponents the most across the finish line, and he was too much better than the opposition. His being old made Turpin, Fulmer as good as they were, not them being as good as they are made out to be. Robinson in his prime actually trying would have destroyed them. Many people don't know that he carried Lamotta most of their fights, and that he wasn't going to in the last fight, and that along with other things was the reason why he wasn't allowed to box in the states and made him go to Europe.