Sugar Ray gets a street in Harlem named after him

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  1. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    http://www.boxing.com/sugar_ray_robinson_way.html

    Harlem, the epicenter of black culture on the East Coast, has made it a tradition to name streets named after iconic African-American figures. There’s Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Malcolm X Blvd., Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd., A. Philip Randolph Blvd., W. E. B. DuBois Ave., and Frederick Douglass Place.

    On Thursday, the great Sugar Ray Robinson, who adopted Harlem as his home, was duly honored by having a block on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd., between 123rd & 124th Streets named after him.

    Present at the ceremony announcing the block’s new designation as Sugar Ray Robinson Way were Sugar Ray Robinson Jr., former Mayor David Dinkins, former Congressman Charles Rangel, Melvina Lathan, Chairperson of the New York State Athletic Commission, and ring announcer David Diamante.

    If ever a fighter deserved to have a street named after him in Harlem, it is Sugar Ray Robinson.
     
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  3. Webbiano

    Webbiano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Ooooo mistook Robinson for leonard :-(
     
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  4. ETM

    ETM I thought I did enough to win. Full Member

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    Well deserved.

    What took so long?
     
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  5. Hands of Iron

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    :shock:
     
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  6. JohnnyB

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    Good news.

    I always thought Harlem started at 125th street.

    You learn something new every day.
     
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  7. McGrain

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    There's only one Sugar Ray.
     
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  8. Hands of Iron

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    Ray Leonard is neither the greatest Sugar Ray nor the greatest Leonard and he's one of the most talented fighters in history. It's a tough life.
     
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  9. Webbiano

    Webbiano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    He's also a crackhead and my view of him will never change. Life's made even tougher with ****s like me on ESB
     
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  10. Hands of Iron

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    Yeah, you can be pretty brutal.

    But at least Tyson is climbing your heavyweight ratings, so there's progress overall. :good
     
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  11. salsanchezfan

    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I suppose it's NYC's business if they want to honor a wife-beating megalomaniac like that.

    What the hell, Monzon has a statue; why not?
     
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  12. McGrain

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    Adam Powell, a man who tried to blackmail Martin King; Malcolm X, a racist who preached separatism. Like these man, Robinson is being honoured for what he did well, not what he did wrong.
     
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  13. salsanchezfan

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    I wouldn't go there either. But, as menioned, their business entirely........
     
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  14. McGrain

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    Well they are picked because they make the community proud.

    But I understand what you mean.
     
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  15. Hands of Iron

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    Monzon is damn near glorified for his tough guy, playboy lifestyle and attitude by people as much as he is for his ring exploits, if not more. How many people have Monzon avatars with nothing about them even alluding to Boxing? He A G :roll: Same thing for Duran.

    Nobody's ever needed to care about extraneous **** with Robinson outside of what he did and looked like in the ring. An overwhelming amount of (great) fighters have had their demons and skeletons outside of it.
     
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