Aaron Pryor turned down 500k to fight Ray Leonard

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Old news.

But I'm glad you posted it ; maybe not we'll have less morons spouting **** about Ray being afraid of Aaron just because they hinted at it on an episode of "Legendary Nights".

Ray would've taxed that ass.

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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?

Pryor wasn't worth any more than $500K at the time.

****, he still isn't.

Take Arguello off of his record (who was already showing signs of fading even pre-Pryor I, mind you) and Pryor's record isn't anything memorable at all.

Pryor's one of the most overrated fighters I can think of offhand.

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$500,000 was ten times more than Pryor's previous career high, when he fought Cervantes.

But in retrospect, Pryor got more money to fight a much more beatable opponent (Arguello), so it probably worked out the best. Leonard most likely would've beaten Pryor, as would the other top 147 lbers at that time.