Why so little respect for Sugar Ray Leonard?

[Ravishing]

It's quite simple

Getting beaten up by a LW. Waiting till Hagler gets old. Little flurries at the end of the each round to steal the fight from Hagler. Beating up a weight drained Hearns. Never giving Wilfred B a rematch when he took the fight at short notice and gave a good account of himself.

Leonard is heavily overrated and would lose to De La Hoya, Tito,Mayweather,Winky,Forrest and many others IMO

I think you're just hatin on Leonard truthfully lol.

Leonard lost to Duran, then came back and made him quit (and not from taking too much punishment but more out of frustration).

Hearns was weight drained??? LOL c'mon bro...you do realize if it were a 12 round fight Hearns would've won on the cards right? But being the fight went a couple more rou8nds and Hearns was KO'd now he was weight drained? SMH...

As far as Hagler is concerned, that's 1 fight I agree that maybe should've happened earlier (him being out of commission due to his eye didn't help much either), but how many fighters can we say took a fight a little later than they should've (or at all). Any names come to mind? I know 1 specifically, but I'll let you figure that one out.

We can talk about Dream Match ups all we want, but nobody will ever know who'll win...you can only speculate. I'm not one of these guys who thinks all the 80s fighters beat everyone today, but to say Oscar, Tito, and Mayweather beat Leonard because he's overrated???

[DC Fight Fan]

I think this thread has officially failed

[Bushbaby]

Because Mayweather is head and shoulder better than Leonard.

Ohhhyeah,because floyd has beaten every great fighter in his era huh??Make a poll,oh I get it,Ur just being sarcasstis,u sly fox u!!

[Ravishing]

Yep this is it. This is what I always hear from hardcore boxing fans. And it is true waht you have said but still they signed the contract to fight him dindt they?

Every Boxer in history can be subjected to "nit picking" by fans.

A Boxer could fight Jesus Christ and win, and you'll still get, "Well, Jesus wasn't in his prime!!!! Why didn't he fight Santa Claus?!?!?"

[Bilal]

How can we forget his blatant and cowardly duck of Pyror. Leonard had no shame in ducking him.

[Ravishing]

How can we forget his blatant and cowardly duck of Pyror. Leonard had no shame in ducking him.

How was Leonard ducking him?

Leonard was on to fight Hearns during the time when Pryor was calling him out. Pryor went on to have 2 fights with Arguello and once a proposed fight with Pryor and Leonard was set to happen, Pryor refused the split in pay and was already falling deep into drug use (hence why his career was cut short).

and truthfully, Hearns was a much more dangerous fight than Pryor. I still think till this day Leonard would've beat Pryor.

[TEDetc]

Williams doesn't have near the pop that Hearns had and is 100X the boxer Hearns ever was.

lOL? Hearns > Williams in terms of anything to do with boxing.

Speed? Hearns. Power? Hearns. Skill? Hearns. Actually, I think Williams MIGHT have a better chin.