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A great battle between two diehard warriors. LaLonde fought the fight of his career with a heart, chin, and determination to match, making him a serious challenge to Leonard. But Sugar Ray showed why he is boxing great with a heart, chin, and determination to match.
Gotta’ give Donny credit for sticking with one of the fastest fighters ever. He may have lost the fight but he put up a hell of a fight and never backed down.
Maaaan :) that was some kinda dust up and a proper knock down drag out fight …. I figure it was fairly even…. until it looked like ?? Maybe Lalonde tired and then Lordy didn’t SRL snap back and take advantage … a helluva fight and I wouldn’t have got in a ring with either of them fellas unless I’d had a pick handle and a good pair of running shoes … if the pick handle don’t work ? You’re gonna need them running shoes 😅😅😅😅
IMO this is the greatest boxing match of all time!! Thank you for putting it up. I remember I fell out of my seat with excitement when Sugar Ray put him away.
This fight turned me into a lifelong boxing fan when I was a kid. This edited video does not convey how much Ray was being clobbered in the early going - and then he has this massive come from behind win by KO. I was also going crazy.
Lalonde put up a fantastic effort and deserves a ton of credit. Not long after this fight, he had a chance to get the title back, but he chose to retire instead.
These fights were Deff NOT free my friend they were on pay per view Hbo and Showtime. I watched it live thats how I know. The good old days of Hbo pay per view! Lol
Maybe free in countries other than America. In the US, fight was aired live on pay per view cable and then replayed on premium channel HBO a week later. If it ever aired on free tv in the US, that would have been month(s) later.
yep I totally agree I have been watching sugar Ray since I was a little kid basically that night he took a pretty good shot or two and then kick this guy's ass it proves how good he was he was not liked by a lot of hagler fans I want a pocketful of money on that fight
Alot of people act like Ray Leonard was a pretty boy with just flash and showmanship But Ray was actually one of the toughest fighter in boxing that could give and take with the best of them oh yeah Lonny came to fight that night
Ray took a beating in that fight...his challenger did great! He just needed to finish Ray earlier in the fight. I was disappointed in Ray's overall performance...too late. Ray ate a lot of strong rights = 🤕
It was tough for Leonard because of the weight. Plus, LaLonde was awkward and a little dirty at times. But he fought hard, stayed active and had power in his punches. He had a puncher’s chance. I think he gave Leonard more trouble than Hagler did in some respects.
siempre sugar daba ventaja de ser ul super liviano a ser whelter pero era mas inteligente y veloz , pero lo dañaron en su ojo . ver estas peleas es un aprendizaje para cualquier boxer
Bardzo dobra walka. Sugar był lepszy od początku . Zaczynam patrzeć na walki niższe niż ciężkie bardziej życzliwie. Tu jest większa szybkość i precyzja. Jest też większa wydolność zawodników i wytrzymałość na ciosy oczywiście relatywnie do kategorii zawodników.
Sugar Ray was also a very humble and personal person. He tipped me 20 bucks in the early 80s to check his oil at a gas station I worked at. Minimum wage then was 3.65 an hour.
Yep We just only for the most part celebrate the BIG GUYS the HEAVYWEIGHTS .I'mm77 and often watch the other division fighters . Great events Willie Pep ,Sandy Sadler, .La Motta ,Sugar Ray Robinson, Bob Foster ,Dick Tiger etc etc.
I think his nice guy persona was a double edge sword. He had the will, stamina and underrated chin of a lion on top of his talent. Ali was a showmanship and used that to up his celebrity status and have more people talking about him. You can make similar case with others prominent boxers.
Wow, I’d never heard of Donny Lalonde but he gave Sugar Ray Leonard a great fight here. It was his 34th pro fight against Leonard’s 36th, and he was 28 years old to Leonard’s 32. Lalonde was bringing it from the opening bell but looks like Leonard saved himself for the later rounds and it showed.
Nobody heard of Donny Lalonde. Even when Leonard fought him. Leonard was ducking the best fighters in the land, to fight the Donny Lalonde's of the world. And only when the best fighters of the world were old and had lost a step, did Leonard fight them.
LaLonde was the light heavy champ, WBC, Sugar was welter weight, who jumped to middle he was outweighted by Donny, this was one of his greatest fights, even the great Ray Robinson lost when he tried to take the light heavy crown from Joey Maxum
@@josephhewes3923 U sound mentally challenged, u say, Sugar, who fought & beat Duran, Hands of Stone twice, Hitman Hearns a win & draw, beat Marvelous Marvin the legendary Middle weight champ, Beat Benitez, AND U SAY HE DUCKED THE BEST, U R INSANE, MAKE UP YOUR OWN FACTS, WHO DID HE DUCK
Yeah that Landone me how to use his reach and was very good I see what impressed me is how Lenard found away to get around lalonde reach which he had to take chances. His fight.
At that time Haggler, Hearns, and Duran were the best fighters in the world. Now which one did he duck! And coming from the world Olympics as world champion now i ask again WHO DID HE DUCK!
Leonard was a coward against Hagler in Las Vegas, where it's easy to bribe anyone including fight judges. He ran away from Hagler for most of the fight. He even requested a larger ring and 12 rounds instead of 15 rounds before the fight and was given both. More room and less time to have to run away from Hagler. After the fight Leonard had to go to the hospital to get checked out. He probably had to get oxygen from running away from Hagler so much. Hagler was a real fighter and Leonard was a running chickenshit. Anyone knows that you never win a fight by running away from your opponent as Leonard did, but the corrupt [bribed] judges gave the decision to Leonard. I watched the entire fight, and I couldn't believe my ears when I heard the decision. Hagler was robbed, and Leonard is not the best fighter of his time. you gotta' be kidding me? Marvin Hagler may or may not be the best fighter of his time but Leonard was never even on that list.
@@carlomiller1984 sorry but it should have been an easy win for hagler ,unfortunately he chased ray for the whole fight hardly landed while ray picked him off with flashy combos in the last 30 seconds of the rounds ,still a very close fight ,rip marvellous Marvin hagler
@@staffh3815 he had to chase the chickenshit leonard in order to box him. Hagler was robbed and you should just say it, instead of sounding ambiguous about it. What do you think would've happened if Hagler had not tried to chase and punch leonard during this match? An old saying "you never win a fight by running away from your opponent." that is with the exception that Don King the promoter of this fight bribed the judges. why? King is a criminal who was determined to take the biggest chunk of the $78 million this fight generated, in addition to promoting it, he had bet money on leonard. Grow up and smell the coffee.
I remember watching this fight back in the late '80s. I had always been a sugar Ray Leonard fan, and I had also followed the career of Donnie LaLonde as well. I was quite conflicted as to who I would have liked seen win, so I had settled on just wanting to see a great fight and I got my wish. I got to see both warriors give it there all one shining in the beginning of the fight the other towards the end excellent definitely not a waste of time.
LaLonde was a sack of potatoes, a paper champion who would not have lasted 2 rounds if Michael Spinks was still ruling the light heavyweights. As for Leonard, yes there was a time when he truly was one of the best boxing champions of the world, blinding speed, boxing skills and good punching power with a cocky attitude. However by the time he stepped in the ring with La"Blonde" he was past his prime and weighed in at 165. That's embarrassing and pathetic when a "puffed" up middle weight knocks out a 175 light heavyweight. Leonard knew he still had enough left in his tank to beat a mediocre fighter who benefited from Michael Spinks retirement.
@@JoseContreras-fy7lb Leonard was one of only two people to ever drop him. 41 wins in 47 fights, with 39 KO's, agains rated fighters. Even after Leonard, Lalonde won four straight fights and fought Bobby Czyz, an excellent boxer, to a decision, although he lost. I don't call that a paper champion.
@@JoseContreras-fy7lb like to see you go a round with DL He was doing great toll he ran out of gas and his limited defence skills shit the bed. Guy had no amatuer background and went far with balls and a deadly right hand only. His left shoulder is fucked and has a screw holding it together . Pretty disrespectful to call him a bag of potatoes. Yeah he's no spinks but stil???
No he wasn't amazing. He fought Leonard when Ray was well past his prime, had this fight taken place even five years earlier Ray would have made very short work of him. I'm from Winnipeg and I watched the fight back in the day it's CLEAR what the outcome would be and if you couldn't see it then or now your just cheerleading. Lalonde was indeed a paper champion. Stud Muffin?? For fuck sakes man.
I remember Howard Cosell said this fight was like a race between a Ferrari and a pickup truck. This was the time in boxing when the superstars were all welterweights. Before that they were all heavyweights.
@Dubon Gros Are you saying Sugar Ray Leonard wasn't much of a fighter?? If that's what you're saying then my dog knows more about physics than you do about boxing.
@@thelevisullivan He showed class saying and I'd bet it was more sportsmanship than fact since e agreed to it. In any case, even at 175 he was awkward and limited which is why he was chosen for this gimmick. WBA champ Virgil Hill was much more formidable.
LeLonde was tough and gave Leonard everything he could handle. LeLonde was a hard hitter and could beat tough fighters… however Champions rise to the occasion and Leonard did just that. He took some tough shots but Leonard fought a lot of high caliber competition and was always a very smart fighter.
LaLonde was an awkward fighter who had an obvious weight advantage. If Leonard had fought him at a lower weight he would have dismissed him in three rounds.
u could see . Ray was super human fit here. he got stronger as the fight wore on and Lalonde just wore down. he had openings but in the later rounds had nothing behind his punches. Rays hand speed and accuracy is remarkable as it was only in the replay i could see how violent and dominating that late round knockout was. gotta be fit. gotta be in shape. and get your hands up.
I went with a couple of friends to watch this fight on closed circuit TV at a high school basketball gym in Wilmington, NC. Back then, we didnt have pay per view at home. We did the same thing for the Roberto Duran vs Marvin Hagler fight. I was pulling for LaLonde, but SR was too good.
Yep back then cable tv was basically new in most areas. So a lot of people didn't have that technology and had to go to closed circuit joints to pay to watch a fight in another city live.
In my humble opinion Sugar Ray Leonard was the greatest natural welterweight that ever lived. He moved up into those weight classes for the money. But he was the greatest 147 pounder
Lalonde came in the ring clean, confident, arrogant pretty, cocky, angry while also very skilled, and left in a body bag. Crazy fight. Sugar ray is a goat 🐐
SRL was on the slide at this point but still a complete fighter, slick boxing skills, devastating finisher, could go into the trenches he had heart and then some. Definitely in my all time top 5 along with Ali, Salvador Sanchez, Pacquiao, Arguello
@@DeCurtaRican No. Both wrre great but not right up there. There were far too many dodgy decisions on Julio Cesar Chavez career and way too much deliberate fouling. He's much like Duran is that respect. I loved Jones right from Seoul. Always loved watching the American and Cuban Olympic boxing teams until things such as happened to Jones became so blatant the sport became unwatchable. Also Calzaghe said that a Jones in his prime would have beaten him. But allowing for all that Jones was born too late. Boxing was already on a downward spiral. Too many manufactured fights, to obtain too many fake titles (a charge which could be levelled at Pac except he fought really top quality fighters viryualky all the time) and his decline was quite dramatic IMO.
Psalms 144:1 AMEN✨ The better you get the more you have to stay on your toes..woooo Thank you for this Fight😁 We Love Mike Tyson but Sugar Ray wasn't nothing to play with either..This was a good competitor for him and I hope you all enjoyed it...What I got out of this fight is that we stand firm and fight through our trials and tribulations when we're living right and getting better in our walk but we forget that we weren't as strong as we are now when it comes to a trial that would make us throw in the towel..Again we really our growing stronger Mentally and Spiritually as we hold on to his unchanging hand.. Praise him✨ GOD BLESS BOTH FIGHTERS❤️ I LOVE YOU...🦅
I've gotta agree Patric, Leonard had some of the fastest hands and despite his size was powerful. I miss watching him. Tyson was quite exciting also and his left hook and upper-cuts were amazingly quick and powerful and he could create a knock out at any moment. Yeas he had some issues but also a difficult life, but with maturity he seems to have become a better man, I hope.
I was told this fight was fixed. Lalonde was guaranteed $7 million to throw the fight or he would never get another backed big payday ever again. He took the fight under that offer. He jumped rope, skipped eating after making weight and ran in place for over 1 hour to tire himself out for the upcoming fight. Ray was the one with the big name and the reputation and image that brought in the big backing for the fight. Donnie LaLonde destroyed Livingston Bramble in a previous fight which showed how good he was. LaLonde never fought another fight.
My appreciation an actual love for sugar Ray totally grew after this I'm 65 and I watched him with Duran, Duran was my man but when he makes his comeback like this he was great. I never saw this fight I'm happy I was able to see it. Lalonde I would have never even lasted four rounds with a young sugar Ray, definitely would have never hit him God bless you sugar ray and those great champions of that era possibly the greatest era of all time it's tough to say though the graziano era was very good and sugar Ray Robinson was a master too but Leonard showed what a master he was in this fight
Donny LaLonde foi heróico! De grande resistência e técnica, conduziu a luta com equilíbrio. O nocaute é, às vezes, apenas um detalhe que favorece o lutador que sabe perceber seu momento...
Nonsense, you're speaking English. Leonard knocked him out and win, that's what count, we are not interested one bit with your technical nonsense & Jargons.
And I must say boxing is timing not just holding heads down and being barbarians, leonard used his wits and waited for the reckless fighter to calm down and manhandled his ass
Leonard was one of the biggest assholes in boxing, lording himself over a guy who was forced to weaken himself down to 168. So glad when Camacho humiliated him.
Always chuckled at the Leonard knock down, LaLonde never even hit him, Ray slipped, but it was entertaining. Fun to watch as Ray let Donny hang around to earn that $5 million pay day.
Leonard was well past his prime here...not as quick in all aspects, but he could still hit. I mean, Ray wasn't really known a one-punch KO guy, but his power was underrated. He could hurt you, for sure. The only guy he never really hurt was Hagler, but Hagler had a skull made of cement, so....
Where Leonard really shines is his footwork. He had the best footwork in the game. A contemporary fighter who shows foot work on his caliber is Vasily Lomachenko. His father took him out of boxing for a couple of years and put him into dancing. It improved his game tenfold.
@@kryptonionknight Agreed. I mean, I think Loma actually has the best footwork of anyone I've seen, including Leonard. The guy really is a dancer the way he creates angles, in and out, pivots, the whole shebang. But Leonard was no slouch for sure.
This has to rank at the top for best come-back fight ever! It was a year after Ray Leonard "defeated" Hagler, and if you ask me, I think Sugar Ray Leonard should have retired permanently from the sport of boxing after this amazing fight. It was the last fight where Leonard displayed the fire.
I watched this live and recorded it onto video cassette one of my most treasured possessions :)the quality is better than on here :) not that I can play it anymore :) best fight I have ever seen considering the weight difference :)
