Sugar Ray Robinson Award

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Sugar Ray Robinson Award
Awarded by the Boxing Writers Association of America
Art Boxing award
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First awarded 1938
Awards 85
Precedence

The Sugar Ray Robinson Award is an award from the Boxing Writers Association of America ( BWAA ) for World Boxer of the Year and Boxer of the Decade . It was founded in 1938 by the sports journalist and war correspondent Edward J. Neil and named after him ( Edward J. Neil Trophy ). It wasn't until 2009 that it was renamed after boxing legend Sugar Ray Robinson .

Since the year it was founded, the BWAA has honored the World Boxer of the Year every year . The Boxer of the Decade Award has only been awarded since 1999.

In 1975 two boxers , Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, and five boxers of the year in 1976 with Howard Davis , Leo Randolph , Sugar Ray Leonard and the Spinks brothers ( Leon and Michael Spinks ) .

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