Former light-heavyweight champion Joey Maxim died #OnThisDay in 2001 aged 79. He was the only boxer to keep the great Sugar Ray Robinson from finishing a fight and he is the man who ended the career of the popular Freddie Mills when he won the title in London in 1950. Born Giuseppe Antonio Berardinelli in Cleveland, Ohio in 1922, and after a successful amateur, he turned professional at 18 years old. A keen ringsider observed the rapid fire nature of his jab and quipped he threw punches faster than a Maxim machine gun. And with encouragement from Jack Kearns, the name stuck and Joey Maxim was born. Maxim himself was stopped just once in a 115-fight career spanning 17 years and retired with an 82-29-4 record, with 21 knockouts. #boxing #BoxingNews #JoeyMaxim (at Cleveland, Ohio)