Born Walker Smith, Jr., Sugar Ray saw his first boxing match at the
Brewster Center in the "Black Bottom" belt of Detroit, won and lost
the middleweight title five times, went through four million
dollars and ended up boxing in the dust in a Tiajuana bullfight
arena. It's quite a story, candidly told ("My ego makes me tick")
as he describes deals and fights and managers and women (three
wives - more women), always the big spender who caused traffic jams
on the Champs Elysees with his enormous pink Cadillac. An exciting
and often sad account. . . he's kind of a modern James Jackson
with, hopefully, a happier ending. (Kirkus Reviews)
Sugar Ray Robinson (1921-1989) was hailed as the finest boxer to
ever enter a ring. Muhammad Ali once called him "the king, my
master, my idol"--and indeed, he was the idol of everyone who had
anything to do with boxing. But for African Americans, he was more
than a great boxer. In an era when blacks were supposed to be
humble and grateful for favors received, he was a man whose every
move in and out of the ring showed what black pride and power
meant.Sugar Ray grew up during the Depression in the ghettos of
Detroit and New York, rose through the amateur boxing ranks, became
Golden Gloves champion at the featherweight at the age of eighteen,
and become world welterweight champion in 1946 and middleweight in
1951. Robinson had it all, but later lost it all; and in this
classic autobiography he tells it all with remarkable candor. Here
is Sugar Ray: the dazzlingly handsome champion with a craving for
fast cars and fast living; the kid who was terrified of elevators;
the young GI who, together with Joe Louis, combated racial
discrimination; the honest fighter who refused a million dollars to
throw a fight against Rocky Graziano; the boxer who dreamed he
would kill his opponent in the ring, and did so the following
night.This Da Capo edition is supplemented with a new foreword and
afterword by Dave Anderson about Sugar Ray's last years in Los
Angeles and the legacy he left behind, and with eight new pages of
stunning photographs.
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