“Sugar” Ray Seales still carries a piece of history in his pocket: a gold medal from the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. He’s the only US boxer who can make that claim. “I feel I’d done something that the Lord had blessed me with,” he remembers. “Not only that, my mother was there, and they sent for my Dad from the Virgin Islands, so now, it was a family heirloom together.” Seales moved to Tacoma when he was 12 years old from the US Virgin Islands, and says he was proud to bring this victory back to his adopted home. “I won it for Tacoma, Washington!” he declared. Seales enjoyed a boxing career that took him around the world for nearly two decades but ultimately decided to retire in 1984 due to an eye injury. READ THE FULL STORY HERE: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/high-rents-tacoma-lead-sugar-ray-seales-mens-shelter/281-8bbcbef9-fe6b-4fde-9652-56fd5553d540