Baby Sugar Ray

Registered boxer 1986-94 USA/ABF
Unites States of America Amateur Boxing Federation

Weight Class, Welterweight, Jr. Middleweight, Middleweight and Light heavyweight.

Record, 118 wins, 4 loses, 36 retirements

Boxing Team Membership, Fontana Boxing Club
Heman G. Stark Youth Training School

Trainers: Mercer "Smitty" Smith, Murray Smuggler, Bernard "Burnin" Burney Roberts,
David Withworth and Larry "Lauro" Remirez.

Born: Floyd Daniel Smith

Date of Birth: July 20, 1967

Birth Place: Morongo/Banning California

Home Town: Compton California

Childhood residence: six Foster Homes in the cities of Pasadena California, Los Angeles California,
Lynnwood and Rialto California.

Adult resided: Fontana California and Rialto California
California Death Row and Salinas Valley State Prison.

BABY SUGAR RAY is best known for his fast hands, slick and sweet ring generalships
and having a fundamentally sound style.

Pasadena Welterweight teammate Brent Thomas said: "Sparring sessions with Baby Sugar
Ray was like boxing against a boxer/coach/referee at the same time".

Legendary Boxing genius Joe Zanders said: "Baby Sugar Ray wasn't just fast, but he stopped
my guy Roger Jones in the second round with deceptive power in 1990."

While only being outpointed by Bill Drewit from British Columbia, Bruce Carrington from British
Columbia at National Blue & Gold Tournaments in the early 1990's and Roger Martinez from Mexicali
Mexico twice, whom he defeated three times moths later, Baby Sugar Ray is also known for never having
lost to an American boxer.

Baby Sugar Ray's dual position as athlete/coach created the perfect transitional journey as personal
trainer for many other boxing strikers.

Baby Sugar Ray has enjoyed for over 30 years a successful career as a boxing trainer for multiple
incarcerated athletes in the State of California and is now a resident at Salinas Valley State
Prison in California.

In the mid 1990's, United States of Amrica/ Amateur Boxing Federation USA/ABF changes its name to
USA Boxing. Lost in the shuffle are a lot of Boxing registered records of many incarcerated boxers.
Mz record was 118-4, but I'm not listed in USA Boxing registry and can only be found in the records
of my opponents. Tournaments only, not local Boxing Shows.

Henry Tilman can be found, but none of his YTS Teammates that experienced the same journey minus a
Gold medal.

We paid for renewal of or registration every year and paid had record books like everyone else. My
record book is noted in the investigation report of the police that searched my apartment, but I'm
not searchable within the USA Boxing database for which I've earned as an athlete when I was being a
productive member of society and proud to represent my Country in the inner cities of America and while
incarcerated in juvenile detention facilities.

We found a Floyd Smith from Chicago in the search, but it wasn't me. I'm not interested in why this is
for me and more incarcerated boxers from the 80's and early 90's.
I'm only intersted in affirming inner city youth when they choose to show up better in society and in
this case, I happen to be amongst this unique class that are not recognized for the hard work and dedication
required in the discipline of The Sweet Science, especiallz through an incarcerated lens.

Baby Sugar Ray 1989 YTS Boxing Team

1. I rose in love with boxing in 1974 while literally running away from an abusive home in Compton Ca., crying
and flashbacking on abusive moments.

I ended up on Alameda Street, looking through slow rolling trains and seeing the YMCA with people going in and
out with boxing gloves, boots and I had to go inside.
His name was Alvin Hayes Sr. He was ringside coaching a sparring session between his son Alvin Hayes Jr. and
another man. He looked at me and asked if my mother knew I was there, he said: "You can stay today, but don't
come back until yo mama say it's ok, lookin like a lil baby Sugar Ray Robinson", even though I had no idea who
that was.

I ran home and told my horrible older brother about what happened and from that point on, only people at the boxing
gym called me Baby Sugar Ray.

It wasn't until 1988-89 when I was forced into the role of coach when the Coach at Heman G. Stark Youth Training
School Y.T.S. with no warning, left our team and took the USA/ABF team to the Russian Invitationals.
It was then when I knew I wanted to be a Coach.

Y.T.S. Boxing team alumni Henry Tilman won a Gold Medal in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles two years before I
arrived and it was an honor for me to continue the legacy of Juvenile Detention Athletics at such a high level. I
credit USA/ABF, now USA Boxingofficials Rick and Melanie Ley, USA Coaches Joe Zanders and Larry "Lauro" Ramirez,
Joe "Deadly" Medley and David Whitworth teaching me Boxing. Since then, I have trained hundreds of California's
incarcerated inner City youth.

(See Melanie Ley at documentary titled: Born and Bred)

When asked about his boxing influences, Baby Sugar Ray said: "My greatest influence has always been Master Sugar
Ray Robinson, he's everything to me"

When asked who taught him boxing, Baby Sugar Ray said: "Rick and Melanie Ley, United States of America Amateur
Boxing Federation USA/ABF Officials from East Los Angeles. Mama Melanie raised a lot of inner City boxers and they
handled us with great care. They taught us the process of the Olympic journey, and Win, Lose or Draw, Melanie was
always there for us. There's a Documentary titled 'Born and Bred' that features Melanie curating the amazing history.
We all call her the Godmother of amateur boxing on the West Coast.

When asked who are the Sugar Rays? He said: "There are a lot of incredible people named for the Sweet Science and with
Sugar names, but the boxers named for Sugar Ray Robinson are most honored to be so named as a direct result of his specific
skill sets".

1. Sugar ray Robinson
2. Sugar Ray Seals
3. Sugar Ray Leonard
4. Baby Sugar Ray Smith

We asked Baby Sugar Ray what was the meaning of him using the last name Green? He said: "Everybody knows I was abandoned
as a child and was placed in several foster homes.
Most foster kids from the inner City normally (age out) of the foster care system and a lot of families didn't want to adopt
teenagers, so when I was adopted at 17 years old, by then, Pastor Dr. Green from the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), so I
honored him by using his last name when I was being productive and most focused, even though I never had my name legally
changed to Green.
Every time I looked into the audience at all of my boxing matches, Dr. Green was always there and only a fatherless black
teenager from the inner City know how vital that is.
Even to this day, I'll be 59 years old in July and he's still here, so I truly loved being Baby Sugar Ray Green back in
those days."