Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sugar Ray came down to his lakeside training camp trailing a drab crew-a couple of beefy sparring partners and a brace of trainers, all solemn and eager to pound the champ into proper shape for next week's bout with Challenger Carmen Basilio. Only the boss himself seemed to be a hangover from the high old times when he traveled with a clowning dwarf, a personal barber, his private golf pro and the one man a boxer needs least of all: a bodyguard...
...safely in his pocket, Ray was as cocky as ever. A blue, short-billed cap perched on his handsome head, a two-tone windbreaker zipped up against the mist from the lake, he smiled benevolently at his subjects. "After 17 years of boxing, all fights are the same," said Sugar with unlimited self-assurance. "The burden of proof is on Basilio. I've got the title, and he's got to come and get it. I'm the middleweight champion, and I think I'm best. After the fight I'll probably feel like-what...
...Alexander dropped dead at 26,"*suggested a learned visitor who had been wondering out loud whether the champ's aging (37) legs and slowing fists were equal to 15 rugged rounds. But Ray professed not to hear. "We know what Basilio's been doin'," said Sugar's soft-spoken manager, George Gainford. "Practicing bobbing and weaving. We know what to do about that. Look at his face. He's been hit plenty, so why can't Robby hit him? When the fight's over, why I'll assist Mr. Basilio...
...Purse for Faubus. Challenger Basilio thus casually dispatched, Sugar Ray remembered that there were some other folks around, notably Arkansas' Governor Orval E. Faubus and President Dwight D. Eisenhower. "I never interfere in politics no kind of way," said Sugar, "but I'd give that Faubus my whole purse and take him on right after Basilio. I think Mr. Eisenhower's somewhat faulty too. There he is playin' golf and his country damn near in a revolution...
Talking up some great fights now, Sugar allowed that after he takes care of Carmen Basilio he might still not be ready to retire. "I'm something of a thespian," he announced grandly, "and I've had offers from stage, screen and television. But first I'd like to fight a few nontitle fights. I'd like to go to Rome and fight for the Pope's charity. Then I'd like to put on an exhibition in Tel Aviv. Then I'd like the State Department to let me go to Russia...