The nickname "Sugar"

[SlySlickSmooth]

Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Shane Mosley

Are there more?

What gave these boxers the nickname "Sugar" did they bestow it upon themselves? Or was there some common connection between the Sugars?

[puga]

shane should've used "vinegar" ..it fitted him better...vinegar shane mosley with all the roids he'd taken and the way he fought like a b1tch...

[pacmanis1]

Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Shane Mosley

Are there more?

What gave these boxers the nickname "Sugar" did they bestow it upon themselves? Or was there some common connection between the Sugars?

I believe SRR's trainer gave it to him because his style was so sweet it was like sugar. I want to say I read that somewhere. The others were just paying homage.

[-Kev-]

I know Sugar Ray is a common name to give some one who's name is Ray. There's that band Sugar Ray.

I don't know where Sugar Shane came from. But if you notice, Mosley resembles Robinson especially when he was young[in looks]. So maybe it came from that.

I think Roy should have been Sugar Roy Jones.

[AztecWanker]

Sugar Rashad Evans.

[-Kev-]

[thuggery]

Isn't one of them actually named Sugar?

[CubanGuyNYC]

The only other guy I can think of bearing that moniker is "Sugar" Ray Seales. Born in the ****** Islands, Seales was the only American to win gold at the 1972 Olympics. He fought Marvin Hagler three times, losing a 10 round UD in August of '74 and drawing the "Marvelous" one three months later. They met once more, in 1979. By then, Hagler had grown into the monster we know today. "Sugar" was TKOed in the first round.

Walker Smith borrowed the amateur card of a friend, Ray Robinson, and was known under that name for the rest of his life. Legend has it that Jack Case, who saw a young Robinson fight in New York in 1939, told Ray's manager, George Gainford, "That's a sweet fighter you've got there." "Sweet as sugar," replied Gainford. The nickname stuck. And the rest, as they say, is history.

As for the other "Sugars", I would say that they simply followed the original. People thought they were just as sweet at some time or other. One made it, one came close, the other, unfortunately, fell by the wayside.

[AztecWanker]

Sugar Ramos
Bert Sugar
Sugar Ray Clay Jones Jr.

[-Antonio-]

Ishe Smith.

Sugar is a name that only those three deserve to me. It should be retired as a nickname.