The great Sugar Ray Leonard, for many fans and experts the greatest living fighter, turns 65 today. A superb welterweight, Leonard’s combination of skill, guile and cunning also saw him to world titles at 154, 160, 168 and 175 pounds.
Each and every year at this time – April, 6 – fight fans from all over the world engage in the ritual of re-watching the Sugar Ray Leonard-Marvelous Marvin Hagler fight.
The latest installment of Mike Tyson’s immensely enjoyable, ‘Hot Boxin’ show is absolutely must-see stuff. The former heavyweight champ, relaxed, with joint in hand, is joined by three genuine greats in Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, and Sugar Shane Mosley.
Exclusive interview by James Slater: Former WBC cruiserweight champ Alfonzo Ratliff recently celebrated his 65th birthday and the warrior from Chicago is grateful to God for allowing him to have lived so long.
The Sugar Ray Leonard Vs. Roberto Duran rematch indeed took place a whole four decades ago today. Even now, though, fight fans the world over have a very hard time trying to explain what happened in the ring that night in New Orleans; a city of intrigue and mystery, where the Voodoo religion is still practiced by (according to some reports) 20-percent of the city’s population.
British boxing writer Colin Hart has been around the sport for decades, and he has sat at ringside at some of the biggest fights in history – Muhammad Ali-George Foreman, many of the fights fought by The Four Kings, and many, many more.
The history of the welterweight division is rich with great fighters, truly special warriors who are universally recognised as all-time greats.
The idea of ranking the four truly great boxers who are worthy of receiving the mythical honor of being immortalised on “Boxing’s Mount Rushmore,” is indeed a brilliant one.
Legendary Boxing Champ Sugar Ray Leonard joins the Last Stand Podcast with Brian Custer. The Hall of Famer goes in-depth about the difference between today’s fighters and fighters during his time.
The recent news of how former IBF 154 pound champ Carlos Molina is aiming to bring back the 15 round fights (for one night at least, this in November), can get a fight fan thinking: what if the 15 round world title fight limit had not been demoted to 12 rounds?