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When Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran talk about boxing’s greatest fighter, they come to the same conclusion.
Leonard and Duran stood alongside ‘Marvellous’ Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns, a quartet of legendary fighters that made up ...
Roberto Duran, Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns defined an unparalleled era of skill, grit and drama in the ...
Sugar Ray Leonard, his backside to the camera, lands a right on Roberto Duran during their rematch fight in New Orleans, taking back the title when Duran bowed out in the eighth.
Roberto Duran on his loss to Sugar Ray Leonard “You would never think about sticking your chin out at Roberto Duran, trust me. “It just happened instinctively and it worked because I saw in ...
(Originally published by the Daily News on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 1980; written by Mike Lupica) NEW ORLEANS – Sugar Ray Leonard tried to defend Roberto Duran when the disgrace was over.
Sugar Ray Leonard versus Roberto Duran II will be in the spotlight again when the film “Hands of Stone,” the biopic of Duran’s legendary career, is released in theaters on Friday.
Roberto Durán and Sugar Ray Leonard have been dragging those words around for that long, a ball and chain that sullies their reputations as two of the greatest fighters of this or any generation.
Roberto Duran and Sugar Ray Leonard continue to be spoken about as two of the greatest fighters. Duran won the first time they both met, with all judges favouring “El Cholo,” with scores of ...
On June 20, 1980, Roberto Duran won a welterweight title by defeating Sugar Ray Leonard in 15 hard-fought rounds at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal. Skip to main content Skip to navigation Menu ...
In the upcoming documentary I Am Duran, the Panamanian fighter's family and longtime rivals and opponents Sugar Ray Leonard and Mike Tyson reflect on his life and legacy.
In 1997, former boxer John (Iceman) Scully nearly died in the ring against Ernest (M16) Mateen. With temperatures hovering around triple digits that day, Scully was dehydrated to the point of exhau… ...