Ishe Smith Tells All: Mayweather, Becoming World Champion & The Business of Boxing

Send us Fan Mail A kid gets bullied at school, learns to protect himself, and ends up becoming the first Las Vegas boxer to win a world championship. That’s the arc Ishe “Sugar Shay” Smith brings to Vegas Circle, and he tells it with zero fluff and a lot of hard-earned clarity. We walk through his early years in the Vegas gyms where he’s surrounded by legends, the near-miss at the 1996 Olympic Trials, and the stretch where he steps away to live a little before a robbery at gunpoint resets hi...