Editing Sugar Ray Robinson (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Sugar Ray Robinson 1965.jpg|thumb|295px|Robinson being held aloft by [[Gene Fullmer]] and [[Carmen Basilio]] in 1965]]

Robinson has been ranked as the greatest boxer of all time by sportswriters, fellow boxers, and trainers.<ref name="stamping"/><ref name="Kieran"/><ref name="official">[http://www.cmgworldwide.com/sports/robinson/biography.html Sugar Ray Bio] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081104150254/http://www.cmgworldwide.com/sports/robinson/biography.html |date=November 4, 2008}}, cgmworldwide.com. Retrieved June 4, 2007.<br />*[http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/ivp/index?id=2866166&catname=Pending Review Joe and Teddy Pick Their Top Fighters]{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} , espn.com. Retrieved June 4, 2007.<br />* Smith, Michael David (May 13, 2007). [http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2007/05/13/espn-greatest-boxers-list-sugar-ray-robinson-no-1/ ESPN Greatest Boxers List: Sugar Ray Robinson No. 1] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120603114151/http://www.aolnews.com/2007/05/13/espn-greatest-boxers-list-sugar-ray-robinson-no-1/ |date=June 3, 2012}}, ''[[AOL|AOL News]]''. Retrieved June 6, 2007.<br />* Wiley. p. 226<br />*Anderson, Dave (April 13, 1989). [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE7DB103FF930A25757C0A96F948260 "Sugar Ray Robinson, Boxing's 'Best,' Is Dead"]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved April 10, 2008.<br />* Trickett, Alex, and Dirs, Ben. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/boxing/4542157.stm Who is the greatest of them all?], bbc.co.uk, June 13, 2005. Retrieved June 6, 2007.{{cite web |url=http://www.cmgworldwide.com/sports/robinson/biography.html |title=The Official Site of Sugar Ray Robinson – Biography |access-date=August 31, 2006 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081104150254/http://www.cmgworldwide.com/sports/robinson/biography.html |archive-date=November 4, 2008}}</ref> The phrase "[[pound for pound]]" was created by sportswriters for him during his career as a way to compare boxers irrespective of weight.<ref name="Sportscentury">Flatter, Ron. [https://www.espn.com/sportscentury/features/00016439.html "The sugar in the sweet science"]. ''ESPN''. Retrieved June 6, 2007.</ref><ref name="pound for pound"/> Hall of Fame fighters [[Muhammad Ali]], Joe Louis, [[Roberto Durán]] and [[Sugar Ray Leonard]] have ranked Robinson as the greatest pound-for-pound boxer in history.<ref name="quotes"/><ref>Kehoe, Patrick. [http://www.secondsout.com/Legends/inthiscornercfm.cfm?ccs=402&cs=9896 Ray Robinson: The champions' champion] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071215073254/http://www.secondsout.com/Legends/inthiscornercfm.cfm?ccs=402&cs=9896 |date=December 15, 2007}}. secondsout.com. Retrieved June 4, 2007.</ref><ref>Hauser. p. 212</ref> In 1997, ''The Ring'' ranked him as the best pound-for-pound fighter in history,<ref name="Sportscentury"/> and in 1999 he was named "welterweight of the century", "middleweight of the century", and overall "fighter of the century" by the [[Associated Press]].<ref>[https://static.espn.go.com/boxing/news/1999/1208/221194.html Sugar Ray named century's best], ''ESPN'', Associated Press. December 8, 1999. Retrieved March 4, 2009.</ref>  In 2007 ESPN.com featured the piece "50 Greatest Boxers of All Time", in which it named Robinson the top boxer in history.<ref name="Kieran">Mulvaney, Kieran. [https://www.espn.com/sports/boxing/greatest/featureVideo?page=greatest4150 Who's the Greatest?], ''ESPN''. Retrieved March 18, 2009.</ref> In 2003, ''The Ring'' ranked him number 11 in the list of all-time greatest punchers.<ref>[http://boxing.about.com/od/history/a/ring_punchers.htm Ring Magazine's 100 Greatest Punchers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707075523/http://boxing.about.com/od/history/a/ring_punchers.htm |date=July 7, 2011 }}, ''[[The Ring (magazine)|The Ring]]'', (2003), available online at [[about.com]]. Retrieved June 6, 2007.</ref>  Robinson was also ranked as the number 1 welterweight and the number 1 pound-for-pound boxer of all time by the International Boxing Research Organization.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ibroresearch.com/?cat=9 |title=IBRO Rankings |access-date=February 12, 2012 |archive-date=March 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322150138/http://www.ibroresearch.com/?cat=9 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was inducted into the [[List of Madison Square Garden Walk of Fame Inductees|Madison Square Garden Walk of Fame]] at its inception in 1992.<ref name="Seattle Times Sept12_92">{{cite news |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19920912/1512564/madison-square-garden-gets-walk-of-fame |title=Madison Square Garden Gets Walk Of Fame |date=September 12, 1992 |newspaper=[[The Seattle Times]] |access-date=April 16, 2019 |agency=Associated Press |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417214439/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19920912&slug=1512564 |archive-date=April 17, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Robinson was one of the first [[African Americans]] to establish himself as a star outside sports. He was an integral part of the New York social scene in the 1940s and 1950s.<ref name="Sportscentury"/> His glamorous restaurant, Sugar Ray's, hosted stars including [[Frank Sinatra]], [[Jackie Gleason]], [[Nat King Cole]], Joe Louis, and [[Lena Horne]].<ref name="glam">Boyd and Robinson II. p. 105</ref><ref>Kilgannon, Corey (November 25, 2009). [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/nyregion/26sugar.html?_r=0 "Sugar Ray's Harlem: Back in the Day"]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved February 13, 2014.</ref> Robinson was known as a flamboyant personality outside the ring. He combined striking good looks<ref>Goldman, Albert (October 8, 1968). [https://www.nytimes.com/1968/10/06/archives/sugar-ray-is-he-a-black-gable.html "Sugar Ray: Is He a Black Gable?"]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved June 6, 2007.<br />* Sammons. p. xii<br />*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930065728/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,863265,00.html?iid=chix-sphere "The Man Who Comes Back"]. ''Time'', April 7, 1958. Retrieved June 6, 2007.</ref> with charisma and a flair for the dramatic. He drove a flamingo-pink [[Cadillac]] and was an accomplished singer and dancer, who once pursued a career in the entertainment industry.<ref>Fitzgerald and Hudson. pp. 205–06</ref>

According to ESPN's Ron Flatter: "He was the pioneer of boxing's bigger-than-life entourages, including a secretary, barber, masseur, voice coach, a coterie of trainers, beautiful women, a dwarf mascot and lifelong manager George Gainford."<ref name="Sportscentury"/> When Robinson first traveled to Paris, a steward referred to his companions as his "''entourage''". Although Robinson said he did not like the word's literal definition of "attendants", since he felt they were his friends, he liked the word itself and began to use it in regular conversation when referring to them.<ref>Robinson and Anderson, p. 169.</ref> In 1962, in an effort to persuade Robinson to return to Paris—where he was still a national hero—the French promised to bring over his masseur, his hairdresser, a man who would whistle while he trained, and his trademark Cadillac.<ref name="Travel">[[Robert Daley|Daley, Robert]] (May 13, 1962). [https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/13/archives/sugar-ray-is-still-young-in-paris-age-hasnt-dimmed-robinsons-skills.html "Sugar Ray Is Still Young in Paris; Age Hasn't Dimmed Robinson's Skills in Frenchmen's Eyes"]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved June 6, 2007.</ref> This larger-than-life persona made him the idol of millions of African American youths in the 1950s. Robinson inspired several other fighters who took the nickname "Sugar" in homage to him: [[Sugar Ray Leonard]], [[Shane Mosley|Sugar Shane Mosley]], and MMA fighter "Suga" [[Rashad Evans]].<ref>{{cite news| author-link=Dave Anderson (sportswriter)| last=Anderson| first=Dave| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=b5UlAAAAIBAJ&pg=1067,2861716&dq=sugar+ray+robinson+leonard&hl=en| title=For Some People there is only One Sugar Ray| newspaper=The New York Times| via=[[The Miami News]]| date=June 18, 1980| access-date=August 24, 2010}} {{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Anderson |first1=Dave |author1-link=Dave Anderson (sportswriter) |title=Sugar Ray, the Original (Leonard, Duran Just Names to Robinson) |url=https://archive.org/details/InternationalHeraldTribune1980FranceEnglish/Jun%2019%201980%2C%20International%20Herald%20Tribune%2C%20%2330275%2C%20France%20%28en%29/page/n14/ |access-date=October 6, 2022 |work=[[International Herald Tribune]] |date=June 19, 1980 |at=p. 15 col 6| via=Internet Archive Digital Library}}</ref><ref>Schuyler, Ed (September 21, 1998). [https://web.archive.org/web/20121104232733/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-19527519.html Article: Sugar Shane wants to look sweet for Sugar Ray], ''[[Associated Press|AP]]''. Retrieved August 24, 2010.</ref><ref>Iole, Kevin (September 6, 2008). [https://web.archive.org/web/20121023013346/http://mmajunkie.com/news/5220/few-pegged-rashad-evans-main-event-status.mma "Few pegged Rashad Evans' main-event status"]. ''[[MMAjunkie.com]]''. Retrieved August 24, 2010.</ref> Sugar Ray Leonard said, "Someone once said there was a comparison between Sugar Ray Leonard and Sugar Ray Robinson. Believe me, there's no comparison. Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/sportscentury/features/00016439.html |title=ESPN SportsCentury |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=2024-04-13}}</ref> [[Laurence Holder]] wrote a play about him entitled ''Sugar Ray'' in 2016.<ref name="boxing.com">{{cite web |last1=Wood |first1=Peter |title="Sugar Ray" is Back in Harlem! |url=http://www.boxing.com/sugar_ray_is_back_in_harlem.html |website=boxing.com |date=27 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170919210835/http://www.boxing.com/sugar_ray_is_back_in_harlem.html |archive-date=2017-09-19}}</ref><ref name="theaterscene.net">{{cite web |last1=Reilly |first1=Darryl |title=Sugar Ray |url=http://www.theaterscene.net/plays/offbway-plays/sugar-ray/archive/ |website=theaterscene.net |date=10 January 2022}}</ref><ref name="routes-mag.com">{{cite web |last1=Lewis |first1=Barbara B. |title=Fighter Laurence Holder, Back in the Ring – Part II |url=https://routes-mag.com/fighter-laurence-holder-back-in-the-ring-part-ii/ |website=routes-mag.com |date=June 28, 2016}}</ref>