How did Sugar Ray Leonard do it??

[VoodooChild]

Leonard went up 21 pounds. Pac went up 41 pounds.

Plus, it is 10x as hard to make that kind of movement in the lower weight divisions than it is in the higher weight divisions.

Chris Byrd went up from 169 to 220, that's 50 lbs.

[VoodooChild]

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA

The contracted weight is 167


well below the Super Middleweight limit. David Diaz is a better win than Lalonde.


If you're insuniating roids then NO. It's dehydrating your opponent.

So Sugar Ray Leonard was a steroid user (according to Hearns), and also a weight drainer. How is he an ATG then?

[apokalips]

Maybe you mean "better", as in ability, speed. But come on....Ray Leonard fought "ALL" the top Welter Weights! Roberto Duran, Thomas Hearns, Wilfredo Benitez, Terry Norris....In those days, 15 rounds!!

Mayweather fights em one a time, doesn't try and Unify. Mayweather has better skills, how can anyone place him above Sugar Ray Leonard is beyond comprehension.

Maybe cause Ray Leonard KO'd Mayweather Senior????

Come on man you can't compare Mayweather at WW (his 4th division) to SRL at WW. A more fair comparison would be with SRL at SMW or something. I think we need to stop trying to rank these active guys anyway...look at RJJ loads of people have really knocked down their ranking of him in all time lists because of his post HW career.

[guzi815]

Come on man you can't compare Mayweather at WW (his 4th division) to SRL at WW. A more fair comparison would be with SRL at SMW or something. I think we need to stop trying to rank these active guys anyway...look at RJJ loads of people have really knocked down their ranking of him in all time lists because of his post HW career.

And you are so right, apokalips. I was responding that "Allucard" said Mayweather was a greater WW than Sugar Ray Leonard, when Floyd only had 7 fights at WW, compared to practically Ray Leonard's entire career at Welter Weight!

[guzi815]

I think Floyd is greater though. Really i do but i know it's not a popular opinion. Search a thread about it i made. The point is there.

Sugar Ray Leonard = 28-1 as a Welter Weight

Floyd Mayweather = 7-0 as a Welter Weight

yeah, ok Allucard, so you say Mayweather is a "GREATER" Welter Weight than Sugar Ray Leonard. Don't think so, man.

I will say it again.....Sugar Ray Leonard is one of the greatest Welter Weights in Boxing history! Period!

[American Dream]

You made about as much sense as spelling African, "Afrikan"

if you were from Africa you would understand...you just have no clue about the languages spoken here....

how old are you anyway? 21?

lmao..OWNEd...I mean hes really to believe that its spelled the same as it is in America?..

[American Dream]

I didnt know that. Floyd copied it from Hearns. damn it's not even original.

Damn did SRL sue too...

[VoodooChild]

No one else?? I can bring up Billy Conn as well.

[TintaBoricua]

Sugar Ray Leonard fought Donny Lalonde in 1988 for the Light Heavy weight title...who by the way weighed the lowest of his entire boxing career at 167lbs!!

can you say, weight drained.

Marvin "Marvelous" Hagler arguably the best middle weight in history, couldn't catch the speedy, craftier, Ray Leonard. But did he ever give Hagler a much sought after rematch????

Sugar Ray Leonard vs Marvin Hagler
was like Oscar De La Hoya vs Felix Trinidad
Only Tito won, and De La hoya knew Tito hit too hard!

Those were one hit wonders. Ray Leonard is one of the greatest Welter Weights in history. Greater than Floyd Mayweather.

Leonard (if I remember correctly) was willing to give Hagler a rematch. But Hagler altogether refused it and quit the sport, because of his disgust towards the decision and what he saw was the politics of boxing coming into play at the time.

[Owlzfan84]

How much did Leonard weigh at 16?

he won a light weight amateur title at 16, but he did fight as low as 130 at 16....