Sugar Ray Leonard - The Only Other Sugar

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He was named after singer Ray Charles and even called up the one and only Sugar Ray Robinson to ask if it was OK to borrow his moniker, "Sugar Ray." Ray Charles Leonard was born on May 17, 1956. When his boxing career concluded he would be best known for winning a gold medal during the 1976 Olympics and winning world titles in five different weight classes as a pro. Over the years since Sugar Ray Robinson, born Walker Smith Jr., many fighters have adopted the ring name Sugar Ray. Only one of them has measured up to what the name stood for and represented: Sugar Ray Leonard. [details]

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while it is right to underline the great qualities of leoanrd in the ring, one should mention his out of the ring "smarts": the negotiations for duran 2 or hagler or the ridiculous catchweight for the lalonde fight... but there is no Lotierzo article without this kind of "omissions"