Help Our Champion - Sugar Ray Seales!

“Sugar" Ray Seales was born in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where his father, who boxed in the U.S. Army, was stationed. The Seales family moved to Tacoma, Washington in 1965 and he graduated from Stadium High School.

He was the only American boxer to win a gold medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics. As a professional, he fought middleweight champion Marvin Hagler three times. He is also the former NABF and USBA middleweight champion.

In 1980, Seales injured his left eye in a fight with Jaime Thomas, and retired due to a serious retinal tear as he was subsequently declared legally blind.

Seales later worked as a schoolteacher of autistic students at Lincoln High School in Tacoma for 17 years, retiring in 2004. In 2006, he moved to Indianapolis with his wife, but returned in 2022 after her death.

Due to financial hardships, he is displaced and living at the men's shelter at Shiloh Baptist Church. Help us help him gain a financial foothold to secure permanent housing with a donation to this fund.

The funds raised will go directly to help Sugar Ray Seales in his endeavor to get permanent housing. It will pay fees, and also will be used to pay past debts that are causing him to be declined from some housing opportunities.

The beneficiary on this campaign, Tony Warren, is Sugar Ray Seales’ cousin. He is helping Ray administer the funds. Sugar Ray’s wife died February 2022 and she handled everything financially. He is 71 years old and has never had to pay his own bills.