Name The Best Lightheavy, Sugar Ray Leonard Could Have Beaten?

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  1. Fergy

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    Any pick but at least from the 1940 s onward?
     
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    Was he any good!
     
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    He beat Dariusz Michalchezski. He was robotic and easy to hit, though.
     
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    Leonard never even fought at Light Heavyweight legitimately, his fight with LaLonde was pretty much Super Middleweight with the catch weight. So it depends if Leonard could manipulate some of these Light Heavyweights into a catch weight clause.
     
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  6. Fergy

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    So he'd probably beat him in a similar way as he did Lalonde?
    Ok, I won't say Donny was robotic as such, but easy to hit.
     
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    Fair points mate.
    Well if we even have to have it that way, I bet there's a biggish q of lightheavy that beat Leonard.
     
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    That’s the thought, but Donny was at 168 and lacked the big win.
     
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    Yep, he was ideal in a way tho he still dropped sugar.
    On a fair footing against a true light heavy.. Different story. I'm gonna try and think of at least a couple that he could beat.
     
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    He could have beaten some old timers
     
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    James Toney is another one. He was lazy at 175 and hated to move his feet.
     
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    I think he could beat Adonis Stevenson. Maybe not on Adonis best night, but once he settled in and fell in love with his power
     
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    So are we saying Leonard is fighting modern LHs that come into the ring at like 185 or so? Is that what they weigh around, nowadays?
     
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    I doubt it. Adonis was rarely down on the cards and I don't see him getting knocked out. He even took some rounds off The Nail whe n he was 40+.
     
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