The claim has been used to describe many boxers, but it was invented for Sugar Ray Robinson ... as 1997, Robinson was renamed the best of all time -- "pound for pound" -- when The Ring magazine ...

BOCA RATON — They’re calling Ray Leonard up on the stage, a stage cordoned off with ropes to resemble a ring and orchestrated ... name, “Sugar Ray,” a tribute to Robinson.

The claim has been used to describe many boxers, but it was invented for Sugar Ray Robinson. Never mind the weight class. When it came to boxing, Robinson was as good as it got. In 1997 ...