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Sugar Ray Leonard and Floyd Mayweather Jr both reached the pinnacle of boxing during different eras. Leonard competed ...
Chief among them was Sugar Ray Leonard's split-decision victory over Marvelous Marvin Hagler on April 6, 1987. Dad had Hagler. I had Leonard. And never the twain would meet. Thirteen years later ...
Nobody gave Sugar Ray Leonard a ghost of a chance. Not against undisputed middleweight champion Marvelous Marvin Hagler, who was coming off 12 consecutive successful defenses of his titles ...
Leonard, 60, who had fought just once in the previous five years before that night in 1987, wasn’t the only one who was fearful for his safety against Hagler, the rugged and reigning champion ...
Hagler handed Mugabi the first defeat of his career when they clashed for the undisputed middleweight championship in Las Vegas just under forty years ago. The reigning champion knocked Mugabi out in ...
A look at Thomas Hitman Hearns, professional boxer who was first to win world titles in five weight classes. His age is 66 years old ...
A look at Sugar Ray Leonard, boxing champion in five weight classes and Olympic champion. His age is 69 years old ...
Leonard emphasizes the importance of perseverance and self-belief in his speeches. He reflects on his iconic boxing career, including his rivalries with Roberto Duran and Marvin Hagler.
A couple of months earlier, Bill Simmons had contacted me out of the blue to gauge whether I was the right guy for an oral history of Leonard-Hagler. Well, if I didn’t land both Leonard and ...
In a virtual news conference Wednesday, both agreed that the style of their fight resembles more like the 1987 WBC middleweight title between Leonard and Marvin Hagler in which the former won a ...
The decade in which Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Thomas Hearns and Marvin Hagler revived the glory of the hardest game from the anti-climactic depression which followed Muhammad Ali's ...