For many boxing authorities, Sugar was pound for pound the greatest fighter to ever lace on gloves. Herb Boyd has done a superb job of capturing Ray Robinson’s life and ring prowess, particularly those stirring bouts with Jake LaMotta, Gene Fullmer, Kid Gavilan, and Carmen Basilio. The Sugar Man was a most radiant personality. Sugar Ray Robinson, then and always, had enough celebrity, glitter, and glamour wattage to match all the neon that glowed from his array of businesses on Seventh Avenue. When Sugar was seeking to get his tavern and businesses on the New York City Visitor’s Bureau schedule of important places to see, I successfully represented him. In the first instance, I was his lawyer in an incident involving an itinerant car washer who left a scratch on the Sugar’s beautiful pink Cadillac. But after meeting the Sugar Man, I represented him on two occasions on matters of not great monetary consequence to him or to me however, it was of some emotional consequence to Mr. He had incredibly fast fists and feet, and matchless pugilistic skills in the ring. Sugar Ray Robinson was born in Georgia, nurtured in Detroit, and developed as a boxer in New York City. It was in the mid- to late 1950s in Harlem, on a Saturday afternoon at a Malcolm X rally that drew more than twenty thousand spectators, that I met the man called Sugar. Herb Boyd with Ray Robinson II DEDICATIONĭedicated to the memory of Edna Mae Robinson CONTENTS
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