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TIL that boxer Jimmy Doyle, who died fighting Sugar Ray Robinson for the Welterweight title in 1947, challenged Robinson to the fight in order to buy his mother a house. After Doyle's death, Robinson gave the earnings from his next four fights to Doyle's mother so she could buy that house.

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