lol video of sweet ray leonard shook of aaron pryor.....

**Thread Stealer** · 04-04-2009, 01:06 AM

Pryor should have accepted the $500,000 offer to fight Leonard.

I used to like Legendary Nights. Now people have almost made me hate the show.

**Two Clips** · 04-04-2009, 01:24 AM

Do I smell duck frickasy?

**Thread Stealer** · 04-04-2009, 01:29 AM

Originally posted by Two Clips

Do I smell duck frickasy?

Can a champ "duck" someone in a lower weight division? What if he's offered him half a million?

Is it a "duck" because he low-balled him?

**Two Clips** · 04-04-2009, 01:37 AM

I don't know about that all I know is Pryor said I want to fight and Leonard blew him off. Believe me I'm not saying that Leonard couldn't handle him. If he did get offered 500,000 then it's on him, but I don't believe that when he was only making 2000.00 to fight.

**Hawkins** · 04-04-2009, 01:45 AM

Originally posted by Two Clips

I don't know about that all I know is Pryor said I want to fight and Leonard blew him off. Believe me I'm not saying that Leonard couldn't handle him. If he did get offered 500,000 then it's on him, but I don't believe that when he was only making 2000.00 to fight.

I've read/heard from a few sources that after his constant badgering of Leonard for a fight he was offered $500k to Ray's $3-4 mil and turned it down because of the unfair split.

How true that is I couldn't say but I've heard it several times.

**Thread Stealer** · 04-04-2009, 01:50 AM

Originally posted by Two Clips

I don't know about that all I know is Pryor said I want to fight and Leonard blew him off. Believe me I'm not saying that Leonard couldn't handle him. If he did get offered 500,000 then it's on him, but I don't believe that when he was only making 2000.00 to fight.

For one, much is too made out of fighters "calling out" opponents. It's not some lunch room fight where you have to fight someone who verbally challenges you. Boxing is a sport/business and generally, you earn your shot at a champion by beating fighters in that weight division and becoming a contender in that division. Now sometimes we get two champs in different divisions fighting each other (PBF-Hatton, Whitaker-Chavez, etc...), which is good, but it's not a requirement of the champ to fight a guy in a different weight division.

Second, Leonard did offer Pryor a fight for $500k, according to a very good Sports Illustrated article around the time. Pryor also had a offer for a big money fight with Duran, but managerial problems ruined it.

I just find it strange as to how people are so gullible as to believe that some short clip of a guy asking for a fight and not fighting him proves some sort of "fear", or so and so "ducking" the other. Of course the big names get challenged publicly all the time. The real "calling out" is in negotiations.

**Thread Stealer** · 04-04-2009, 01:53 AM

Originally posted by Hawkins

I've read/heard from a few sources that after his constant badgering of Leonard for a fight he was offered $500k to Ray's $3-4 mil and turned it down because of the unfair split.

How true that is I couldn't say but I've heard it several times.

Pryor ended up getting paid a lot more for the Arguello fights so I guess it worked out okay for him in this regard.

Arguello was a much more beatable opponent and paid Pryor more than the greedy Leonard.

**Hawkins** · 04-04-2009, 01:59 AM

Originally posted by Thread Stealer

Pryor ended up getting paid a lot more for the Arguello fights so I guess it worked out okay for him in this regard.

Arguello was a much more beatable opponent and paid Pryor more than the greedy Leonard.

True, but I'm sure alot of people use this as an example of Leonard pricing himself out of a Pryor fight ala RJJ thus he was running.

**Two Clips** · 04-04-2009, 02:01 AM

Originally posted by Thread Stealer

For one, much is too made out of fighters "calling out" opponents. It's not some lunch room fight where you have to fight someone who verbally challenges you. Boxing is a sport/business and generally, you earn your shot at a champion by beating fighters in that weight division and becoming a contender in that division. Now sometimes we get two champs in different divisions fighting each other (PBF-Hatton, Whitaker-Chavez, etc...), which is good, but it's not a requirement of the champ to fight a guy in a different weight division.

Second, Leonard did offer Pryor a fight for $500k, according to a very good Sports Illustrated article around the time. Pryor also had a offer for a big money fight with Duran, but managerial problems ruined it.

I just find it strange as to how people are so gullible as to believe that some short clip of a guy asking for a fight and not fighting him proves some sort of "fear", or so and so "ducking" the other. Of course the big names get challenged publicly all the time. The real "calling out" is in negotiations.

I feel you and I can understand where Pryor felt like he belongs with the elite and wanted to make elite money. It's just hard to believe that he turned down 500k when he was making only 2k. To me it would seem like him or someone close to him would have stepped up and showed him the upside of beating the likes of Leonard. If it was me I would have taken 10k for that chance at stardom/wealth.

lol video of sweet ray leonard shook of aaron pryor.....