| LC control no. | n 82049374 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Leonard, Sugar Ray, 1956- |
| Variant(s) | Leonard, Ray Charles, 1956- |
| Biography/History note | Individual was a Boxing Hall of Fame inductee and an Olympic Gold Medal awardee. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 19560517 |
| Place of birth | Wilmington (N.C.) |
| Field of activity | Boxing |
| Affiliation | Sugar Ray Leonard Boxing, Inc. |
| Profession or occupation | Boxers (Sports) Olympic athletes |
| Found in | Rosenthal, Bert. Sugar Ray Leonard, the baby-faced boxer, 1982 (subj.) CIP t.p. (Sugar Ray Leonard) CIP galley (Ray Charles Leonard; b. 5/17/56) African American National Biography, accessed February 19, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Leonard, Sugar Ray; Ray Charles Leonard; boxer, hall of fame athlete; born 17 May 1956 in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States; won the local Golden Gloves as a lightweight (1972); won the gold medal for his weight class in the 1976 U.S. Olympic team; formed Sugar Ray Leonard Boxing, Inc.; his World Boxing Council (WBC) championship match against Wilfred Benitez was the first welterweight fight to pay each fighter more than a million dollars (1979); became the World Boxing Association (WBA) junior middleweight champion; became the WBC middleweight champion; second-highest-earning boxer of all time; was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame (1997)) |
| Invalid LCCN | n 80156781 |
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