Floyd Mayweather spoke with his favorite boxing web site, FightHype, again recently (the video uploaded today) and the main topic of conversation was a list of “The Best Welterweights,” that Mayweather was sent by a friend of his.
Wednesday, May 20, will be a night of boxing on ESPN2 when the network airs five consecutive hours of the sweet science featuring some of the sport’s most debated decisions.
He is the king of “The Four Kings.” He is, in the opinion of many, the greatest living fighter. He is Sugar Ray Leonard, and he was born Ray Charles Leonard on this day 64 years ago.
We’ve seen quite a few lists pop up during these odd and, for many people, boring times. Boxing fans in need of things to replace the almost complete lack of live-action have been reading all about who was the best this or the best that, and also reading mythical fight scenarios.
If the great Roberto Duran-Sugar Ray Leonard fight of June of 1980 wasn’t special enough, this titanic battle was the very first super-fight in the nine-fight series four legendary lower weight fighters would thril the planet with throughout the decade.
It’s anniversary time again for THE most argued about fight in all of boxing history: Sugar Ray Leonard WS12 Marvin Hagler.
Sugar Ray Leonard – Championship Profile: Sugar Ray Leonard is universally recognized as one of the greatest boxers of all time, and not without good reason.
If such a fight took place today, between two superb fighters, each with a genuine claim to being the pound-for-pound best in the world, we sure would be paying through the nose to see it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6UKxAg2Ew0
There have been many shocking, unsettling and perplexing sights thrown before us inside a boxing ring (“The Bite Fight,” “Fan Man”).
September 16th 1981. Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.
Fight fans were the happy and all too eager recipients of a Super-fight that lived up to all Super-fights on this day 38 years ago.