Randolph Adolphus Turpin (7 June 1928 – 17 May 1966) better known as Randolph Turpin and in the United States also as Randy Turpin was an English boxer who was considered by some to be Europe’s best middleweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1952 he became world middleweight champion when he defeated Sugar Ray Robinson. Turpin was inducted into the International Boxing Hall Of Fame in 2001.
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height (cm)
1.524
birth date
1928-06-07
birth place
England, United Kingdom, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
death date
1966-05-17
death place
England, United Kingdom, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
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