Sugar Kid

WHITE PLAINS - Boxing legend Sugar Ray Robinson is widely regarded as the greatest pound-for-pound fighter in the sport's history. But he couldn't beat Maurice "Kid Sharkey" Sposato. In 1939, the White Plains native, who had sparred with Robinson, …

When I was a kid, my brother would dig out the old, tan boxing gloves from the cupboard under the stairs and we'd go mano-a-mano in the living room: me pretending to be Sugar Ray Leonard - the bolo punches, the Ali shuffle - my brother, his footwork…

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…