Ray Washington

Dave Jacobs, a longtime boxing trainer in Prince George's County who discovered the talent of a young Sugar Ray Leonard and guided him to an Olympic gold medal in 1976, died March 23 at a hospital in Washington. He was 84. The cause was congestive…

Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post Lee Reeves of Ireland cheers after being declared the winner in his match with Kalonni Daly of the Sugar Ray Leonard Boxing Club in Washington. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Michael S. Williamson…

The victory for Washington was his second consecutive victory after fighting to a controversial 10 round draw against 43-year-old Amir Mansour last October. A lot of boxing fans thought that Mansour had done enough to get the victory. However, it was a…

Sugar Ray enabled a shy, awkward kid from a humble Washington neighbourhood to climb between the ropes and wage "psychological warfare" against some of the toughest brutes of his era and, ultimately, emerge from boxing's greatest era as the undisputed…