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==Later life== [[File:Sugar Ray Robinson 1969.jpg|thumb|Robinson on [[Land of the Giants]] in 1969]] In his autobiography, Robinson states that by 1965 he was broke, having spent all of the $4 million in earnings he made inside and out of the ring during his career.<ref>Robinson and Anderson, p. 4.</ref> A month after his last fight, Robinson was honored with a Sugar Ray Robinson Night on December 10, 1965, in New York's [[Madison Square Garden]]. During the ceremony, he was honored with a massive trophy. However, there was not a piece of furniture in his small [[Manhattan]] apartment with legs strong enough to support it. Robinson was elected to the ''[[Ring Magazine]]'' boxing Hall of Fame in 1967, two years after he retired and the [[International Boxing Hall of Fame]] in 1990. In the late 1960s he acted in some television shows, like ''[[Mission: Impossible (season 3)|Mission: Impossible]]''. An episode of ''[[Land of the Giants]]'' called "Giants and All That Jazz" had Sugar as a washed up boxer opening a nightclub.<ref>[http://www.tv.com/mission-impossible/the-contenders-1/episode/69702/summary.html Mission Impossible] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008024717/http://www.tv.com/mission-impossible/the-contenders-1/episode/69702/summary.html |date=October 8, 2009 }}. Retrieved October 14, 2010.</ref> He also appeared in a few films including the [[Frank Sinatra]] cop movie ''[[The Detective (1968 film)|The Detective]]'' (1968), the cult classic ''[[Candy (1968 film)|Candy]]'' (1968), and the thriller ''[[The Todd Killings]]'' (1971) as a police officer. In 1969, he founded the Sugar Ray Robinson Youth Foundation for the inner-city Los Angeles area. The foundation does not sponsor a boxing program.<ref>Wiley. p. 223</ref>
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