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RCM Historical Boxing: A Kaleidoscope of Boxing Sugars 

By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent

Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ramos, Sugar Ray Hammond, Sugar Ray Seales, Sugar Ray Leonard, Sugar Shane Mosley, Bert Sugar, Sugar Ray Clay Jones Jr. (Anthony Small), Sugar Shay (Ishe) Smith, and Suga (not Sugar) Rashad Evans.

Of these Sugars, the only one I met was the late boxing writer Bert Sugar. The best of the Sugars was Sugar Ray Robinson. Of 200 professional bouts from, 1940 to 1965, Robinson won 173, lost 19, and drew six, with 108 knockouts, and two no contests.

Sugar Ray Leonard is best known to sports fans in the modern era. He was the first boxer to earn over 100 million dollars in purses, in the era before Floyd Mayweather Jr. The best known boxer of the 1980s, Leonard had a professional record of 36-3-1 with 25 knockouts.

New York Golden Gloves champion Sugar Ray Hammond of the Bronx went 17-9-1 wit eight knockouts as a light middleweight between 1973 and 1981.

1972 Olympic Gold Medalist Sugar Ray Seales of Tacoma, Washington, went 57-8-3 with 34 knockouts between 1973 and 1983, holding the USBA and NABF Middleweight titles.

Sugar Shane Mosley of Pomona, California, went 47-9-1 with 39 knockouts between 1993 and 2013. He won only one of his last six bouts.

The other Sugars, I can tell you, I just don’t know much about.

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