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Sugar Ray Leonard gets beat by Roberto Duran

Sugar Ray Leonard gets beat by Roberto Duran. Duran moves up to welterweight to dethrone the welterweight king Sugar Ray Leonard. Ray chooses to slug with the Panamanian Legend and pays a steep price losing his title and absorbing heavy shots to the body and head. www.sweetfights.com

Category: Sports

Updated: 05/21/2008 - 23:39:06

Tags: Sugar, Ray, Leonard, gets, beat, by, Roberto, Duran, boxing, fight, fights, rare, film, classic, box

Votes: 71 votes.

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skeetskeet182 The half Mexican half panamainian legend. 07/30/2010 - 08:14:56
xxmcneilxx this is the fight i will always remember 07/10/2010 - 03:46:24
azkalpien @donkeydoran when leonard knew duran gained 200 pounds after the fight....he request a rematch at 147....duran said he cant hurt him because he drained too much weight.....theres no way duran cant hurt leonard..... 06/13/2010 - 22:38:39
RobotechMacrossGame @stevieplez2 They fought in Canada, the same place where SRL won the olympics. 05/28/2010 - 01:21:08
RobotechMacrossGame @donkeydoran you are too fond of SRL. He clearly lost this fight because he was passive. 05/28/2010 - 01:16:55
donkeydoran Just watched the whole thing again. On punches landed, which is what its about, Leonard wins. He beats Duran at his own game. Duran couldnt handle Leonard when Leonard decided to fight his own way in the rematch. I love Duran but Sugar Ray was robbed here. 05/25/2010 - 23:50:52
RADDxSTEEZY Wtf happend i cant see shit when the 15th round started!!!! 20: beautiful!!!!! 05/23/2010 - 21:59:47
tomsta3 love both fighters but duran was the most natural fighters i have ever seen 05/10/2010 - 13:24:01
pepperbug3024 worst announcer ever.. i don't even know who won the fight.. 04/29/2010 - 18:28:03
blairomatic @stevieplez2 Duran was 'fighting in his country'? Canada? 04/21/2010 - 16:28:06
blairomatic Look at King. Talk about 'arriving with the champion and leaving with the champion', whoever that may be. 04/21/2010 - 16:25:26
stevieplez2 @judaschongo I have to agree with you on this one also because I didn't see Ray Leonard getting beat like they claimed after watching it again tonight like 25 years later. Duran was fighting in his Country and now It almost seem like Leonard was robbed... 04/18/2010 - 08:48:47
stevieplez2 @3232rams Yeah 3232ram Leonard and Hearns was afraid of Aaron Pryor. Pryor beat Hearns in one of those tournament bouts and he used to beat up on Leonard when he was his sparring partner. I saw the tape, Pryor and Hagler would of been a good one, I think Hagler would of won though. All of these guys beat each other. Hearns, Leonard, Duran and Hagler.. 04/18/2010 - 08:44:42
judaschongo Leonard fought a tremendous gutsy fight as well; all this about seeming like a novice or getting murdered the entire fight is nonsense. For those who bring up the point of fighting Duran's fight, or that Leonard should of used his bicycle? don't get the point either. It wouldn't of made any difference; Duran was in optimum shape to fight ANY Leonard and simply wouldn't of been denied! He was 29 and in the prime of his life(outside 135 that is). 04/16/2010 - 16:16:27
TheRichmich @TheRichmich -Yes one fight in 5 yearsis very inactive and only a great athlete and fighter could pull that off. Just thought you may have overlooked the Howard fight. 04/06/2010 - 23:37:16
Zhorellski Big mistake by SRL goin' head to head with a brawler here.. 04/06/2010 - 21:58:07
bandit7498 @TheRichmich I know he did, and he somewhat struggled with that fight. He took it on short notice and didn't get much training in for it. For the most part he was still off for the better part of 5 years. And rather or not it was 3 or 5 years, considering Hagler was fighting constantly, it was still quite a feat for Leonard to do what he did rather you think he won or not. Inactivity is a big obstacle to overcome for a pro fighter. Like him or not you can't say he wasn't inactive. 04/06/2010 - 18:02:46
TheRichmich @bandit7498 - Leonard was only off 3 years when he came back to fight Hagler, he fought Kevin Howard in 1984. 04/06/2010 - 14:08:03
TheRichmich Heres the bottom line, when Duran and Leonard were at their best, Roberto kicked his arrogant ass. Hagler was robbed in the Leonard fight, which, by the way Ray demanded 12 rounds instead of 15. 04/06/2010 - 14:00:50
nenechalon sin duda es una de las mejores peleas de la historia era tiempo q Duran se vengara de Sugar pq ser muy payaso en la primera pelea q bueno q ganara sin duda uno de los mas grandes del Box Mundial 04/06/2010 - 03:45:54
CHAMPXT Duran even called Leonard's wife a whore in public. He did everything to get under Leonard's skin. They hate each other with a passion. This was one of the most anticipated fights. You can feel the tension in the ring. 03/28/2010 - 22:12:42
05002271 Leonard admits himself that Duran was poorly conditioned in the rematch. He says he got the rematch scheduled at the time he did so Duran would have to loose a hige amount of weight before the fight and therefore wouldn't be in great condition. I think it is on one of the "Beyond the Glory" docs. I don't think a prime & in shape Duran would loose to a prime Leonard and I'm a leonard fan btw. 03/27/2010 - 02:07:06
supeone cokehead, arrogant, self loving BUT great fighter and did alot for boxing. I admit Leonard is a LEGEND 03/25/2010 - 01:11:11
supeone I love duran one of my favorite fighters. But to be honest it was his night. Leonard is a cokehead but he is the better boxer and the rematch showed it. 03/25/2010 - 01:09:18
MrBamaQ that dumbass bolo punch. ray had skills but i couldnt stand him. 03/23/2010 - 16:20:05
 
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