Person
ISNI: 
0000 0000 8307 1904
https://isni.org/isni/0000000083071904
Name: 
Robinson, Ray
Robinson, Sugar Ray
Smith, Walker
"Sugar" Robinson, Ray
Dates: 
1920-1989
Creation class: 
Language material
Musical sound recording
Creation role: 
author
Related identities: 
Smith, Walker (Wirklicher Name; other identity, same person)
Related names: 
Amateur Athletic Union of the United States (isAffiliatedWith)
Earl Hines orchestra
Sugar Ray Youth Foundation (isAffiliatedWith)
Waismantel
Watts
Titles: 
Being Sugar Ray
Knock him down whiskey
shoulda been on my merry way enregistrement sonore knock him down whiskey, i
soulda been on my merry way, I
Notes: 
African American National Biography, accessed April 7, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database (Robinson, Sugar Ray; Walker Smith Jr.; Sugar Ray; boxer; born 03 May, 1920 in Detroit, Michigan, United States; started boxing in Kingston, New York with Amateur Athletic Union, identity card with the name "Ray Robinson" on it, won the Golden Gloves featherweight title; professional boxer (1940); joined the U.S. Army (1943); developed a stage show, French Casino, in New York City, clubs on the French Riviera (1952-1955); owner of a bar, a dry cleaning store, a barbershop, a lingerie store in Harlem; retired from boxing with last match, Madison Square Garden (1965); appeared in motion pictures, variety programs; founded the Sugar Ray Youth Foundation in Los Angeles, California (1969); held the world welterweight title (1946-1951), was five times middleweight champion (1951-1960), Associated Press named him the greatest welterweight and greatest middleweight boxer of all time and ultimately named him the fighter of the century (1999); died 12 April, 1988 in Culver City, California, United States)
Associated Group: Amateur Athletic Union of the United States United States. Army naf
Associated Group: Sugar Ray Youth Foundation
Being Sugar Ray, 2007 ecip t.p. (Sugar Ray Robinson) galley (d. April 12, 1989)
Boxers (Sports) Businesspeople
Boxing
LC data base, 5-27-88 (hdg.: Robinson, Ray, 1920 (May 3)- )
Omnibus. IV, vol. 16 [MP] 1956 credits (Sugar Ray Robinson, guest)
World book ency., c1980, v. 16 p. 347 (Robinson, Ray; b. 1920 in Detroit, Mich.; also known as Sugar Ray Robinson; real name, Walker Smith, Jr.; American champion middleweight boxer, retiring 1965)
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