This is an Associated Press photo showing the moment after Ray "Sugar" Robinson landed the winning blow on his opponent Jimmy Doyle in the June 24, 1947, welterweight championship match between the two men. It's been said that Robinson had foreseen this event... and the consequences of it.
This copy of the photo comes from the J. Paul Getty Museum website [pay site, Link Here].
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