Aaron Pryor turned down 500k to fight Ray Leonard

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  • Bright-Eyes
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    Aaron Pryor turned down 500k to fight Ray Leonard




    Post fight interview

    I posted this in the history section but I figured it would get more attention here.
  • Horus
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    #2
    yeah most people knew this. well most real boxing fans anyways.

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    • flyest1
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      #3
      Aaron Pryor is my boy. But I look at Leonard as the greatest boxer I've ever seen. Pryor would have lost.

      A fight with Pryor and Whitaker would have been a great one

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      • boxasmash
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        #4
        Jesus Horus, you think you're some kind of celebrity. It's a bit silly.

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        • Horus
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          #5
          Originally posted by boxasmash
          Jesus Horus, you think you're some kind of celebrity. It's a bit silly.
          why would you bring this up out of nowhere?

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          • Bright-Eyes
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            #6
            Originally posted by Horus
            yeah most people knew this. well most real boxing fans anyways.
            Originally posted by Horus
            These so called hardcore boxing fans are so hardcore that they don’t know any HARDCORE boxing history...

            * People forget or dont know, that Sugar Ray Leonard never fought Pryor, when Pryor called him out in his face!!!

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            Originally posted by flyest1
            Aaron Pryor is my boy. But I look at Leonard as the greatest boxer I've ever seen. Pryor would have lost.

            A fight with Pryor and Whitaker would have been a great one

            It's not really about that tho.for years now,people have been claiming that Leonard ducked Pryor on seeing a clip of Aaron Pryor calling out Leonard at a press conference on the legendary nights episode.


            This myth has been used to unfairly discredit Leonard I feel.

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            • ufirst
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              #7
              Originally posted by Bright-Eyes



              Post fight interview

              I posted this in the history section but I figured it would get more attention here.

              Gee, 500k for a champion to come up in weight and fight the next division's champ who will get 12 million??????? I'm shocked he wasn't falling over himself to sign the contract... Question, if you were wearing Aaron's Pony's, would you have taken it? nice try at sensationalizing/debunking though
              Last edited by ufirst; 11-08-2009, 05:12 PM. Reason: omission

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              • Bright-Eyes
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                Originally posted by ufirst
                Gee, 500k for a champion to come up in weight and fight the next division's champ who will get 12 million??????? I'm shocked he wasn't falling over himself to sign the contract... Question, if you were wearing Aaron's Pony's, would you have taken it? nice try at sensationalizing/debunking though

                500k to fight the biggest star in boxing,500k being by far the greatest payday of his career at that point............damn right I would have taken it.

                Where did you get 12 million from?

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                • Bright-Eyes
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by boxasmash
                  Jesus Horus, you think you're some kind of celebrity. It's a bit silly.
                  I don't understand what you're saying here

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                  • gibo
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                    Pryor didn't turn down 500k, he just didn't want such a small piece of the pie.. He was undefeated, a champion, a rising star, and leonard wants him to come up to his weight and accept 1/2 a mill, while leonard pulls in 4 mill?

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