Norman ‘Norrie’ Sweeney died peacefully surrounded by his loving family at Crosshouse Hospital on February 18.

His funeral was front page news on Harlem’s leading newspaper ... One of the most famous athletes who was inspired by Rev. Johnson was the champion boxer Sugar Ray Robinson. Sugar Ray trained at the ...

Sugar Ray Robinson was an American professional boxer who became the first boxer in history to win a divisional world championship five times and is often considered the greatest boxer of all time.

Retiring with 199 fights to his name, Robinson notched up 174 wins throughout his career. This included becoming a world champion in two weight divisions. In what was one of the standout years of his ...

Even after capturing Olympic gold, Leonard wasn’t supposed to become a famous professional boxer in the mold of his other inspired name, “Sugar Ray,” a tribute to Robinson. Ray’s plan was ...

Ennis is looking to put on an impressive show and achieve bigger and better things in the welterweight division by replicating what Floyd Mayweather and Sugar Ray Leonard previously did in the ...

1958 — Sugar Ray Robinson regains the middleweight title for a record fifth time with a 15-round decision over Carmen Basilio. 1961 — Cincinnati ends Ohio State’s 32-game winning streak with ...

African-American personalities had rarely appeared on the cover of Time, and the few who did before 1966—Louis Armstrong, Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, among them—had ...