Sugar Ray Leonard

Today’s Duran vs. Leonard: Golovkin vs. Stevens

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golovkin43On June 20th 1980, boxing fans were treated to what would be the beginning of a legendary rivalry by two of the most revered boxers of all-time. Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran treated the world to a fight no one would soon forget. For 15 rounds, the two traded and exchanged punches, combinations, and wits with the goal of proving their dominance in the sport.

Each man wanted to leave behind a legacy. Sugar looked to prove that he could stand toe to toe con las “Manos de Piedras” to show the world that he is not just a defensive and elusive boxer with a nice smile. Roberto Duran on the other hand, looked to break Leonard down and punish him to submission. Duran wanted to prove that he was the best in the world. On that night, Duran and Sugar gave fight fans a display of ruthless aggression and determination that would last a lifetime.

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Ali, Robinson, Leonard, Mayweather; the art of movement

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005Mayweather-Schaefer-CaneloIMG_0043(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Robert Elmore: When there is a certain person that stays on top of his game in any sport, and no major flaws can be pointed out, that’s when people reaching for straws. They search high and low for anything they can use to disrespect the person on top. The anti Floyd Mayweather Jr. movement have resulted to such things.

This article is not for those who educated about the sport. It’s for those who uneducated. One of the straws being reached for is this thing called movement; getting out of the way punches; the float like a butter fly sting like a bee; the Cus D’ mato hit and not get hit style.

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Aaron Pryor-Ray Leonard: What might have been

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By Robert Elmore: This is one of those fights that probably would have been great. You had the slick mobile Ray Leonard and the crude coming like a whirl wind Aaron Pryor. But as I watched Pryor public call out Leonard at a social event on Legendary Nights (Pryor-Arguello), and then watch Leonard casually brush Pryor aside, my mind began to turn.

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Mike Tyson knows best….

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Image: Mike Tyson knows best....By Rusty Nate: This is not an article to provoke the hard core bloggers or start arguments. Its more of a little write up about the interview i watched and what stood out for me.

I don’t know who watched the Sky Special on Ringside last week (I had to record it and watch it back as I was at an event).

I managed to get round to watching it last night and found my self overly excited at the upcoming Mike Tyson interview at the end of the program.

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Leonard: Me and Hearns would KO Pacquiao and Mayweather

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Image: Leonard: Me and Hearns would KO Pacquiao and MayweatherBy Allan Fox: Boxing great “Sugar” Ray Leonard has a lot of respect for both Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao as fighters. However, he thinks they both would have been in deep, deep water had they been around to face him in his prime as well as Tommy “Hitman” Hearns. Leonard thinks he and Hearns would KO both Mayweather and Pacquiao.

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Who do you pick? De la Hoya vs. Sugar Ray Leonard

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By Gerardo Granados: Both fighting at welterweight, young and hungry for glory, fame and money. This fight would set PPV records. Yeah sure, this two warriors belong to different eras (but still both are modern era fighters) and as usual the young boxing fans did not get the chance to watch Leonard engage with other historical greats such as Roberto Duran – Tommy Hearns – Wilfred Benitez – Marvin Hagler, or even the youngest boxing fans can not remember Oscar fighting for the WBO super featherweight title against Jimmi Bredhal (his first title) or the WBO lightweight title against Jorge “Maromero” Paez, both fights way back in 1994.

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Defining Fights: Part 2- Duran, Leonard, Hearns

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Image: Defining Fights: Part 2- Duran, Leonard, HearnsBy Klaas Mabetlela: Roberto Duran, Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns form part of the ‘fab’ four (fabulous four) that also included Marvelous Marvin Hagler. The four were responsible for the richest boxing era of the recent memory.

For most people, the issue of defining fights will be easy for these three because they fought each other and their defining fights were against each other. It is not as clear-cut and easy as that because sometimes, a loss gains more for a boxer than a win would ever manage. There are fights where there are no losers and I am not talking about drawn fights.

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What really happened to Roberto Duran?

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duran45435By Klaas Mabetlela: On the night of November 1980, Roberto Duran shocked the world when he turned his back and refused to fight any longer against the challenger, Sugar Ray Leonard. He won his career defining fight against the same Leonard hardly 5 months earlier in Montreal. How does a man who never displayed cowardice before and after this fight can took such a drastic action?

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Does Money match up to Sugar Ray?

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leonard435243By Bolish Gudgworth: Lets face it. Boxing today is not what it was 20 or even 10 years ago. I know this has been argued and debated hundreds of thousands of times already but it is still a relevant point. The job of promoters, managers and fighters has become more and more unstable with the decline in PPV and the fragmentation of championship titles at each weight class.

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