@@keithbrown3889 SRL quickness,Speed,Ring utilization, jab, power, combination power, hook body attacks, uppercut, mental makeup, feet proximity how he used it to set you up.
I realised it, he inspired us lean guys we don't have to take a butt kickin'. I learned from watching Ray's style helped me in street fights. I never got the
The way Howard Cosell was talking about Leonard in this fight, it's almost as if he knew that Leonard would go down as one of the greatest of all time.
Frank was a good little fighter. His one assistant trainer,Joe Polo, was one of my trainers.This was the 3rd time l saw him fight, but Ray was a special fighter.
Sugar Ray Leonard is an all time great. When Ray fought Roberto Duran. The greatness seed that Duran gave Sugar Ray Leonard after that fought is a huge part of Ray's greatness as a fighter because Roberto Duran was already considered to be the greatest lightweight that ever lived. The old timers felt that way because of Duran's incredible intensity and extremely high skill level that he brought to the table. Duran was very unique animal. Duran would have torn Floyd Mayweather, Jr to pieces in a fight. Consider the Maidana and Castillo fights with little Floyd. Floyd Mayweather struggled in those matches in a big way. Duran was in a entirely different league as a fighter than Maidana or Castillo. Getting back to Sugar Ray Leonard it was his versatility that made him so great. He beat the great Tommy Hearns. How did Sugar accomplish such a mind blowing victory over such a fabulous boxer as Hearns? Hearns was very fast and I would argue that Hearns was the hardest puncher in welterweight history. Watch Hearns fight with with Roberto Duran. If Hearns could have punched just a little harder with his right hand that night, Duran's head would exploded upon impact! It was a horrible and the same time and amazing punch to behold. The sound of the punch in the arena was so loud one might conjure at the moment in the arena that an atomic bomb was detonated against Duran's head!!! Hearns was over six feet tall and wing span that was like a heavyweight. His jab was pristine and for a welterweight that jab was powerful and super fast. Nobody could out jab Tommy Hearns. If you saw Tommy Hearns walk around in his prime you would come to the conclusion that Ray was not going to beat Hearns even with all the amazing blessings Ray Leonard had as a great fighter. Ray struggled mightily through the whole fight and was losing on all cards until he stopped Tommy Hearns in a breathtaking fight in the 14 th round. Tommy Hearns would have stopped Floyd Mayweather, Jr. in 10 rounds or less had they fought as welterweights most likely. Floyd would have been hard pressed to win a round in a fight with Tommy Hearns! Sugar Ray Leonard against Floyd Mayweather, Jr., would have been a hard fight for Sugar Ray because of the styles and Floyd's great defensive skill. Leonard would have to dig deep, had they fought. It would likely have gone the distance with Sugar Ray's because of all Ray's uncommon intangibles as a fighter, that allowed him to beat all those all time great fighters like with very different styles like Wifredo Benitez, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns and Marvelous Marvin Hagler. Ray's intangible aspects as fighter is what made Sugar Ray Leonard so great. Ray may very well be the most cagey fighter in boxing history. Ray would likely beat Floyd because Leonard somehow adapted so well to all fighter styles. Ray just figured out how to beat other fighters intuitively as he did the above great fighters with their very different styles of each man. Which leads me to believe that he would have solved the Floyd Mayweather, Jr. puzzle as well. With that being written, I do think Floyd Mayweather, Jr was the greatest 130 pound fighter that I ever saw fight. He was one of the greatest fighters period. And, as of this writing Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is 50-0 and he has made more money than any fighter in boxing history. All these guys in this commentary are so far above most motal boxing world champions. Is it even possible to categorize a professional boxing world champion a mere mortal in the first place? The men herein sit high atop the mythical Mount Olympus of boxing.
I think Floyd gives him trouble as long as the fight remains outside and a boxing match. But SRL catches Floyd at some point and keeps hurting him, then stops him. He's fast and bigger - has the heart and confidence of a champion. I can't see FMJ running away with a decision.
@2:58 Cosell gives the most direct description of the two fighters that you may have ever heard. And it had nothing to do with the color of their trunks. 😆😆
Did I just hear Cosell?? Sugar Ray, the Black fighter, Sanrore, the white fighter? I thought they go by color of fighting trunks..lol. Sounded very ignorant.
I was gonna write a comment about how this look a lot like Rocky vs Apollo. Except Frank here did way worse than Rocky, but, weirdly, had a lot more heart
rob lee- you dont know boxing period!!! srl would have knocked mayweather out in is youth or his prime mayweather had no power and no body knocked out leonard!! in his prime or his youth you are so ignorant when it comes to boxing srl was a legend look how he embarrassed his daddy with only 11 professional fights, 49-0 = 49 nobodies!!! mayweather could not have been a champion in leonards era the fab 5 would have beaten the running floyd not a real boxer only in it for the money.every one knows it,know your boxing before saying something ridiculous !!!your money man lost to sugar shane mosley but sugar got robbed by the judges!! face it mayweather will never be looked as a real fighter ever!! only a runner!!!
Boxing was different back in those days of course floyd would beat any of those fighters back then. Btw 49 nobodies? Pacqiuao,Corrales,Cotto,Hatton carnelo all nobodies? And no power? Of course he has power he knocked Pacqiuao on his ass.
I think 2 deals were made in the early 80s for a fight w/ Leonard and Pryor- Pryor turned down the first bc he felt that the Leonard camp lowballed him (apparently, a similar thing happened with Roberto Duran where Pryor also felt as if he deserved more money so he turned the bout down). The other was was set to take place in late 1982- Leonard was to face his mandatory challenger Roger Stafford and Pryor afterwards but he discovered his detached retina training for the Stafford bout so his fight with Pryor never took place.
