Forty thousand people lined the streets from Salt Lake City to West Jordan on a frigid January day in 1957 when Gene Fullmer returned home from New York City after beating middleweight world champion Sugar Ray Robinson in a convincing 15-round decision.
Only old-timers remember that now, but it was yesterday’s equivalent of the Jazz winning an NBA title or Utah and/or BYU winning a national football championship. It was big. A lot of fight experts considered Robinson the best boxer, pound for p...
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