Wilfred Benítez vs. Sugar Ray Leonard was a professional boxing match contested on November 30, 1979, for the WBC and The Ring welterweight titles. In...
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welterweight championship. Sugar Ray Leonard won the WBC welterweight title with a fifteenth-round knockout of Wilfred Benítez in 1979. He lost it to Roberto...
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Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Roberto Durán was a professional boxing match contested on June 20, 1980 for the WBC and The Ring welterweight championship. The...
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Ray Charles Leonard (born May 17, 1956), best known as Sugar Ray Leonard, is an American former professional boxer, motivational speaker, and occasional...
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decades, including Wilfred Benítez vs. Sugar Ray Leonard, Mike Tyson vs. Pinklon Thomas, Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Roberto Durán, Thomas Hearns vs. Roberto Durán...
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Wilfred Benítez vs. Roberto Durán, billed as The New Beginning was a professional boxing match contested on January 30, 1982, for the WBC super welterweight...
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up until his second fight against Sugar Ray Leonard in November 1980, as well as in his fight against Wilfred Benítez in January 1982, Durán was trained...
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Thomas Hearns (section Hearns vs. Leonard)
defeating future boxing hall of famers such as José "Pipino" Cuevas, Wilfred Benítez, Virgil Hill and Roberto Durán. In addition, he won the IBO title at...
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successfully campaigned at junior middleweight, winning the WBC title from Wilfred Benítez, and defeating Roberto Durán. Hearns defeated several middleweights...
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rivalry between five world champions: Wilfred Benítez, Roberto Durán, Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns and Sugar Ray Leonard.[citation needed] Of all the possible...
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(1960–1981), he also worked with 15 other world boxing champions, including Sugar Ray Leonard, Sean Mannion, José Nápoles, George Foreman, George Scott, Jimmy Ellis...
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Devon Alexander Ruslan Provodnikov Alexis Arguello Timothy Bradley Wilfred Benítez Miguel Cotto Terence Crawford Julius Indongo Paulie Malignaggi Junior...
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uplinked to satellite in 1975; Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns I and II When Wilfred Benítez beat Roberto Durán Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney, for the World...
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Marvelous Marvin Hagler (section Hagler vs. Leonard)
retire in the face of being challenged by Sugar Ray Leonard. Hagler's next challenger was Sugar Ray Leonard, who was returning to the ring after a three-year...
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Salvador Sanchez vs. Wilfredo Gomez, Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns, Wilfred Benitez vs. Roberto Duran, Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney, the rematch between Aaron...
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coming up in weight. Duran decided to challenge Sugar Ray Leonard instead, however, and Cervantes vs. Duran never materialized. On August 2, 1980, Cervantes...
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Schmeling, Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Jake LaMotta, Rocky Marciano, Willie Pep, Muhammad Ali, Alexis Argüello, Wilfred Benítez, Wilfredo Gómez, Roberto...
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Fight)" – via www.youtube.com. "Ray "Sugar" Leonard vs Marvin Hagler (HD)" – via www.youtube.com. "Sugar Ray Leonard vs Thomas Hearns — September 16, 1981...
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The Carnival of Champions (redirect from Wilfredo Gómez vs. Lupe Pintor)
both. Gómez, Pintor, Hearns and HBO commentator Sugar Ray Leonard (who came in to substitute Benitez) were paraded around New Orleans a few days before...
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a number of fighters into the tournament for King. Sugar Ray Leonard's bout with Wilfred Benítez on November 30, 1979 marked the first time in the era...
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Hearns vs. Roberto Duran, Hearns vs. Marvin Hagler, Hagler vs. Sugar Ray Leonard, Leonard's third fight with Roberto Duran, Wilfredo Gomez vs. Juan Laporte...
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Camacho vs. Edwin Rosario Wilfredo Gomez vs. Carlos Zarate Wilfredo Gomez vs. Guadalupe Pintor and Wilfred Benítez vs. Thomas Hearns Salvador Sanchez vs. Wilfredo...
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front of a crowd of 65,000; it was Ali's last professional win. Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Roberto Durán II, also known as the No Más Fight, is one of the...
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defeating Roberto Durán twice late in Duran's career, and knocking out Sugar Ray Leonard. He also fought Julio César Chávez, Félix Trinidad, and Oscar De La...
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because he could no longer make the weight. Wilfred Benítez was the youngest ever champion at any weight. Benitez first won the 140-pound WBA light-welterweight...
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Jr., Roy Jones Jr., Wilfred Benítez, Wilfredo Gómez, Julio César Chávez, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Larry Holmes, Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, Mike...
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A preview of things to come, as Sugar Ray Leonard wins his first of five world titles by knocking out Wilfred Benítez in round fifteen for the WBC world...
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of five Americans in amateur boxing at the 1976 Summer Olympics (Sugar Ray Leonard, Leon and Michael Spinks, Howard Davis and Leo Randolph, each of whom...
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October 21, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Ham, Jack (December 19, 1952). "Sugar Ray Robinson Positively Retires From Boxing Through NBA vacates Middleweight...
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The Ray Mancini vs. Bobby Chacon, or, alternatively, Bobby Chacon vs. Ray Mancini fight was a boxing contest which was held on January 14, 1984, in Reno...
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