What was Sugar Ray Leonard's best win

[RL_GMA]

Hearns definitely.

By today's standards, Leonard would've lost a 12 rd decision based on the scorecards, and Leonard turned it up and finished Hearns off. One of the many reasons he's one of my all time favorite fighters.

[jrosales13]

Why????????????????

Because, of his LW run, his overall resume, and his accomplishments. But, again JMO.

[$tate of Mind]

Because, of his LW run, his overall resume, and his accomplishments. But, again JMO.

Fair enough, but I disagree. Hmm so I started a thread that was meaningful enough for you to grace me with your presence

[Chups]

Even though it was not asked I think Kalule was his most underrated win. Kalule was a good JMW champion and nobody mentions that win for Leonard.

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Because Kalule isn't a HOF. He is equivalent of BERTO or Bradley of today. I love that fight when I was a kid and remembered Leonard doing a flip when he won, I haven't seen it since tho.

[CubanGuyNYC]

Leonard won. Coming back after 3 years, moving up 2 divisions to face arguably the greatest middleweight of all time is truely awesome. The best of the many great wins Leonard had.

You make a strong case for the Hagler bout. Although I thought Marvin should've gotten the nod, just giving the "Marvelous" one that kind of fight was truly impressive. However, the come-from-behind KO victory versus Tommy Hearns was just epic. I remember watching that one live, on TV...electrifying! Hagler may've been the bigger scalp (no pun intended), but the fight versus the "Hitman" was far more dramatic.

[King Ju-Ju]

hearns. the duran rematch was ****** so i didnt get all hype about that 1 and i dont respect the way he went about finally fighting hagler. he reminds of some other guy going 2day.

[CubanGuyNYC]

In most respectable list that I have seen. Leonard is in the top 15 ATG's.

I mean he is pretty high on people ATG lists.

It's pretty interesting how Leonard, while very popular in his fighting days, hasn't seemed to retain his aura into retirement like some other greats. Take Duran, for instance, a man "Sugar" defeated twice: Roberto is far more popular in retirement than Ray. He's mentioned more often and regarded more highly. I'm not saying it shouldn't be so...but one has to wonder why the clear gap in appeal. Ray Leonard was a "golden boy" years before Oscar came along; Roberto Duran had a much darker persona by comparison. Maybe nice guys really do finish last....

[Thread Stealer]

Gotta go with the Hearns fight. The Hagler fight was a great (though still debated to this day). Leonard was the smaller man and had been inactive, but truthfully both guys had seen better days. Duran was a very good win, but by Leonard's own admission, he knew Duran wasn't in the best of shape. There's been talk of Hearns being overtrained, but I believe Hearns was in top condition. Benitez was a terrific talent, but Hearns was the superior fighter to El Radar.

Oh, and Pryor deserves the majority of the blame for that fight not happening. He's the one who rejected the offer from Leonard because he wanted more money, despite it being far more than he had ever made at the time.

But you wouldn't know that if you didn't bother to check the history and instead just believed the excrement spewed on HBO's Legendary Myths.

[Thread Stealer]

It's pretty interesting how Leonard, while very popular in his fighting days, hasn't seemed to retain his aura into retirement like some other greats. Take Duran, for instance, a man "Sugar" defeated twice: Roberto is far more popular in retirement than Ray. He's mentioned more often and regarded more highly. I'm not saying it shouldn't be so...but one has to wonder why the clear gap in appeal. Ray Leonard was a "golden boy" years before Oscar came along; Roberto Duran had a much darker persona by comparison. Maybe nice guys really do finish last....

Leonard's not really considered a nice guy among boxing circles. He's gotten a bit of a reputation as a two-faced phony. Despite his tendency to grab his testicles in public, Duran actually has a better reputation in terms of being friendly with fans and to the best of our knowledge, didn't beat up his wife like Ray did.

[project xxx1]

Leonard would've smoked the Hawk anyways

Leonard was too big, too skilled, to fast, ect......

pryor beats srl imo