If Ray Leonard was boxing today....what kind of PPV numbers would he draw?

[UTEP]

Sugar Ray Leonard vs Oscar de la Hoya would reach 3 million PPV's.

[CubanGuyNYC]

Sugar Ray Leonard vs Oscar de la Hoya would reach 3 million PPV's.

DLH-Floyd did 2.4 million buys. It's certainly possible that DLH-Leonard could do higher.

[MrRolltide91]

LOL are you even serious? He was the greatest in the greatest era of heavyweight boxing ever....you think he wouldn't be the best now? LOL gtfo you piece of **** noob

he's saying it would be hard to call ali the GOAT because of the opposition

[Ham Porter]

point is they both put themselves on the shelf...

srl, came out of retirement briefly to fight kevin howard...the eye was fine before, and after the fight...howard put srl on the deck, srl came back and ko'd him, but went right back into retirement for another 2 years and went on an alcohol and coke binge...so i wouldn't put too much stock into that...

during that time hagler was tearing thru middleweights and cementing himself as a draw in his own right, and srl was commentating most of his fights...i'd say srl took those years to get his confidence up while watching hagler deteriorate...the similarities are there nonetheless, and over time its become a strategy that floyd exercised because hey it works...

You're compositely ignoring why he "put himself on the shelf" in the first place. The comparison isn't valid for the reasons previously stated. Leonard looking like utter **** against a clubfighter does little to support your argument.



Those years of not training? Of not fighting? Of, by your own definition, on a binge of alcohol and ******* - that's building your confidence up?