Leonard vs Pryor - early 80's , who wins??

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Cincy Hawk.... Like it was said before, sugar refused to fight him for a reason...

Like it was said before, people watch too much Legendary Nights.

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Like it was said before, people watch too much Legendary Nights.

Yep could not agree more. They never bother to look at the facts and then simpy do a time line themselves, to see that Pryor leonard was never a viable fight. It would have been ****** for Ray to fight a unproven jr welterweight, who at the time beat noone but a washed up lightweight champ with over 100 fights and had lost to Benetiz 4 years earlier (cervantes).

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Yep could not agree more. They never bother to look at the facts and then simpy do a time line themselves, to see that Pryor leonard was never a viable fight. It would have been ****** for Ray to fight a unproven jr welterweight, who at the time beat noone but a washed up lightweight champ with over 100 fights and had lost to Benetiz 4 years earlier (cervantes).

In a very good Sports Illustrated article on Pryor in the early 80s (remember when SI used to cover boxing with regularity?), it was reported that Pryor wasn't happy with a $500,000 offer from Leonard's camp, so he rejected it.

Of course, things like this, such as doing research and reading articles around this time period, or other logical things such as looking at weight classes, is too much to ask for some. They'd rather use a 5th grade mentality of "oh my god, Pryor challenged Leonard and Leonard didn't fight him!! Leonard must be scared!!"

Funny that I'm always defending Leonard on this "he feared/ducked Pryor" myth. I'm not much of a Leonard fan, I used to dislike him, actually. But I have a stronger dislike of revisionist history than I do of any fighter.

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The knock-downs that Pryor suffered were off-balance ones...he was never really hurt, he came out just too fast and awkward. You guys are boxing afficinados so I don`t know why you even bring that up. Leonard got $10 million for Hagler while Hagler got about $13 million. But Leonard asked for 12 rounds and a ring the size of a 5th graders skating rink to dance around in. This is facts. It pains me to bring up stuff you all should know. Even then, Hagler won the fight IMO. Ray`s most impressive fight though, He was beaten up by 3 of his next 4 opponents pretty good however. He should have stayed retired like somebody said. His last fight, Hector Camacho (himself pretty washed up) took him apart and Leonard stayed away from boxing for good. Pryor IMO would have beaten Ray, Mayweather, and Chavez. Whittaker only one I see beating Pryor.