Sugar ray Leonard was one of boxings most beloved athletes. His boxing name comes from his moms favourite singer Ray Charles. Sugar Ray was not the first to start boxing out of his family, his two older brothers showed him what boxing was like and he fell in love with the sport. Like many other boxers they are surrounded around crime as a kid, and Sugar Ray Leonard was no exception. Over the years training Sugar Ray became a great boxer however he never had dreams of going professional, he just wanted to cash out at the olympics.

However, as we know he went into professional boxing because of family hard ships. Over Sugars impressive 36-3-1 boxing career he picked up a cult like fan base. By cult I mean a lot of people loved him and loved what he was doing. Sugar Ray was a really nice guy and people wanted to see him win but I believe it goes quite deeper than that. At the time of Sugar Rays come up it was 1979. At this time in America there was a lot of fear with the Cold War.

I feel that the people needed an outlet at the time to get away from there life. Because with constant fear of the Cold War and Mutually Assured Destruction it makes the world seem like a terrible place and with an idol like  Sugar Ray it made the world seem just that little bit better. You might be asking your self why him? Well like I previously said he was a really liked guy and coming from the ghetto and making yourself into something was a really inspirational thing for people to hear at the time. Especially from somebody with that much pain in their soul. He was not only an idol for the African American community but also the white community. He had a very wide range of fan base which added on to his popularity. I also feel that his popularity had to do with the fact that he was African American. People in the 80s where not really racist anymore however of course there is still racism, but people didn’t want to judge him on his colour of skin they just wanted to base him on his boxing ability, and they did that. To most Sugar Ray Leonard was a way to escape the more or less depressing world. Some people need a hero to look up to and in the case of thousands of Americans that was Sugar Ray Leonard no matter if it was for his a race or the fact he was a nice guy he has people shouting his name for nearly 20 years of his professional boxing career.

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This project was very hard in my opinion. It involved everything I’m bad at. For example it’s hard for me to prove a message over text and I think I did an okay job on it. But I believe my strengths were show cased in the mini movie about my fire topic. I actually liked making the mini movie trailer thing and I had fun doing so. Also if you look pass the actual quality of the photo there is a plot line that I follow. This project was a weird one because there was almost no direction in where to head the project in.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/why-sugar-ray-leonard-was-one-of-the-all-time-770310

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sugar-Ray-Leonard

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Ray_Leonard