Does Sugar Ray Leonard have the best big name resume of wins in the past 35 years?

Oscar has Chavez, Tito, Whitaker, Mosley (II), Quartey, Vargas and Genero Hernandez if you count the two he deserved.

 

Hearns has Cuevas, Leonard (II), Hill, and Duran

 

Jones has B hop, Toney, Ruiz, Tarver, McCallum and Hill.

 

30 years takes us back to 1985.

Leonard beat Hearns back in '81.
He drew with him in 1989 rematch.

He beat Hagler in '87 and Duran in '89.
The Hagler win was impressive but I thought Hagler won by a point or two honestly.

 

It's a shame you pointed that out to all the Leonard fanboys really isn't it?:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl

And on that basis I'd say Won 3 Lost 2 and Drew 1 isn't anything to get excited about.

Even if 2 of the 3 wins were against faded legends.

 

good one Foxy, you really made all those SRL fans feel silly :good

 

Keep quacking.

 

i will.

and you try not to be so obsessed with what skin colour i am.

its not important Foxy :thumbsup

lets keep this to boxing. By the way, who is your 4th rated heavy of all time after Ali, Lewis and Louis who are your first 3.

 

Post prison

Lost the series.

went 1 - 1

Ancient versions of both.

:rofl:rofl:rofl

 

If you want to use 30 years, you have to drop Benitez, and Hearns. And you also lose his only decent win against Duran.

However...

Went 1-1 with prime Roberto.

Waited the dude out till old age, dictated all terms, and got a very controversial decision.

went 1-1 by his own reckoning.

Good win.

A very great fighter, no doubt, but gets overrated at times.


Especially by RedRooster.

 

Floyd: delahoya, Cotto, Pacquiao, Alvarez, hatton,Juan manual matquez

 

Hagler was 32 years and eleven months, was at the end of a fourteen year career with nearly seventy fights under his belt. He hadn't fought in a year and was talking retirement, when he got the offer.

Leonard had fewer than half that many fights in a style much less prone to wear and tear, and had remarked before the fight that Hagler had slowed down considerably.

So he waited him out. Further, he insisted on 12 (not the customary 15) rounds. (Marvin did better in the later rounds.)

He insisted on a 20 ft ring and 10 oz gloves.

And still, the decision was controversial.


It was a great win for Leonard, but in my book, it has an asterisk beside it.


IMO, Floyd has a better resume.

 

Ironic that you point out that Hagler was post prime and he was. Yet you come back and say Floyd has a better resume. Ignoring the fact that Floyd made his name beating Corrales and Castillo, but every other notable fighter he ever fought besides Hatton was past their best.

Leonards resume is ridiculously better than Floyd's.