Ray Charles Leonard became Sugar Ray Leonard; Walker Smith, Jr. became this boxer
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Sugar Ray Leonard - Boxer - Biography.com  Feb 4, 2016 ... Sugar Ray Leonard was an Olympic champion boxer who won several WBC titles. ... Sugar Ray Leonard was born Ray Charles Leonard on May 17, ... Leonard soon became obsessed with boxing, and with perfecting his...
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Sugar Ray Leonard - Wikipedia  Ray Charles Leonard (born May 17, 1956), best known as "Sugar" Ray Leonard, is an American former professional boxer, motivational speaker, and occasional actor. Often regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time, he competed from .... pursue his Olympic dream while she and the baby, Ray Charles Leonard, Jr.,...
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Sugar Ray Leonard: He Took The Baton From Ali, And He Could Fight  He was named after singer Ray Charles and even called up the one and only ... Since Sugar Ray Robinson, born Walker Smith Jr., popularized the name, ... It's also a fact that Sugar Ray Leonard carried boxing from the time Muhammad Ali retired. .... From this point on, Hearns became the prey and Leonard the predator.
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Sugar Ray Robinson - Boxer - Biography.com  Feb 4, 2016 ... By 1958, he had become the first boxer to win a divisional world ... Sugar Ray Robinson was born Walker Smith Jr. on May 3, 1921, although...
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Sugar Ray Robinson - Wikipedia  Sugar Ray Robinson was an American professional boxer. Frequently cited as the greatest ... Robinson was born Walker Smith Jr. in Ailey, Georgia, to Walker Smith Sr. and Leila Hurst. ... he was "sweet as sugar" by a lady in the audience at a fight in Watertown, New York, Smith Jr. became known as "Sugar" Ray Robinson.
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J! Archive - Show #4495, aired 2004-03-05  Lightweight champ Ray Mancini received this nickname that his father also used as a top contender. $600, 14. "The Last Battle" by C.S. Lewis...
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Roberto Duran says 'No Mas' vs. Sugar Ray Leonard in 1980 - NY ...  Nov 24, 2015 ... The macho man just up and quit. One moment he was fighting and the next moment he wasn't. "No more," he said to Sugar Ray Leonard.
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ESPN Classic - The sugar in the sweet science  The claim has been used to describe many boxers, but it was invented for Sugar Ray Robinson. ... Silver: St. Valentine's Day Massacre ... Robinson held the world welterweight title from 1946 to 1951, then was the middleweight champion five times between ... His one early loss was to Jake LaMotta, his career-long rival.
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robinson, sugar ray signed postcard - Jo Sports Inc.  History: Sugar Ray Robinson (born Walker Smith Jr., May 3, 1921  April 12, ... welterweight title from 1946 to 1951, and won the world middleweight title in the latter year. ... to win a divisional world championship five times, a feat he accomplished by ... boxer of all-time in 1997, and its "Fighter of the Decade" for the 1950s.
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Muhammad Ali - Wikipedia  Muhammad Ali /li/ was an American professional boxer and activist. He is widely ... Clay then converted to Islam and changed his name from Cassius Clay, ... Notable among these were the first Liston fight; the "Fight of the Century", ..... Ali and then-WBA heavyweight champion boxer Ernie Terrell had agreed to meet...
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Jack Johnson (boxer) - Wikipedia  John Arthur "Jack" Johnson (March 31, 1878  June 10, 1946), nicknamed the Galveston Giant was an American boxer, whoat the height of the Jim Crow erabecame the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion (19081915). .... Returning home from Manhattan a much bigger and stronger man, Johnson...
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Raging Bull Characters | GradeSaver  Vickie LaMotta ... Tommy Como is the mob leader for whom Salvy works. ... Jake LaMotta's boxing nemesis is Sugar Ray Robinson with whom he engages in a...
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Marvin Hagler facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  Marvelous Marvin Hagler was a hard-hitting lefty who could switch his stance and ... The world middleweight champion from 1980 to 1987, Hagler was a gutsy, ... 1987, Loses World Boxing Council (WBC) middle weight to Sugar Ray Leonard.
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Raging Bull - Wikipedia  Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical black-and-white sports drama film directed by ... Also featured in the film are Joe Pesci as Joey, La Motta's well-intentioned ... In 1943, Jake defeats Sugar Ray Robinson, and has a rematch three weeks later. ... Joey speaks with Vikki, who says she is giving up on his brother.
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Sugar Ray Leonard - Wikipedia  Ray Charles Leonard (born May 17, 1956), best known as "Sugar" Ray Leonard, is an ... Leonard was also the first boxer to earn more than $100 million in purses, and ... the boxing program, urging the center's director, Ollie Dunlap, to form a team. ..... After the Montreal fight Durn went on a partying binge and ballooned in...
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Roberto Duran says he didn't actually say 'No Mas' | For The Win  Oct 14, 2013 ... Director Eric Drath and former fighters Roberto Duran and Sugar Ray ... days of the Carter administration, but Sugar Ray Leonard says that 33 years later, ... about his November 1980 rematch with Roberto Duran in New Orleans. ... is best known as the No mas (meaning 'no more' in English) fight since...
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movieboxing - Sandlot Shrink  Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates, Edward Brophy. Classic tearjerker about washed up fighter and his loving son. A bit too ... Remade in 1937 and 1951. .... Holden debut role as the boxer flung him into stardom. ... In 1938, he held three of boxing's eight weight-class championships simultaneously.
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Joe Louis - Boxer - Biography.com  Aug 8, 2016 ... Known as the "Brown Bomber," Joe Louis was an African-American boxer and heavyweight champion, whose opponents included Max...
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Why Boxing is Called the Sweet Science | iSport.com  Pierce Egan was a British journalist and sportswriter in the early 1800s. ... with knowledgeable writing concerning the most popular illegal sport of the time. ... and Sugar Ray Leonard both received their nicknames from the phrase sweet science. ... coined by Egan in the early 19th century, The Sweet Science of Bruising..
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How Sugar Ray Robinson made Jake La Motta his bloody Valentine ...  Feb 8, 2016 ... The heat didn't beat me, he began, shaking his head. ... Boxing, like bull-fighting, is a blood sport and people who never enter the ... Jake La Motta v Sugar Ray Robinson on Valentine's Day 1951. ... sixth La Motta fight was signed, Robinson vacated his welterweight title and focused on the 160 pounders.
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Jack Johnson (boxer) - Wikipedia  John Arthur "Jack" Johnson (March 31, 1878  June 10, 1946), nicknamed the Galveston Giant was an American boxer, whoat the height of the Jim Crow erabecame the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion ... Johnson later claimed that it was thanks to Lewis that he would become a boxer.