Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Carlos Baldomir

Cross Trainer, most of your threads are excellent, but this is one of those rare anomalies that truly puzzle me.

 

NO competition, Leonard would destroy Baldomir Easily. Reminicent of Leonard vs. Kalule. A good fighter but too slow & outclassed.

 

Leonard would light him up, then turn his lights out.

 

My only question would be what round Leonard would finally manage to close BOTH of Baldomir's eyes.

 

Well, that one was a funny thought and had creative potential. This one just seems like a mundane match-up between a great champion and a tough-but-limited flash champ of a later era that would inevitably end up with the former winning a UD, with the only real question being how wide the scorecards would be. Aside from Homicidal Hank, I doubt there's anyone on this forum who would really disagree with that.

EDIT: Scratch that; I see even Hank agrees on this one.

 

Well, he's the former linear champ now, but either way, I do suppose there's merit in giving a guy his chance even when you don't think he stands one. Otherwise, Baldomir would never have gotten the title from Judah in the first place.

 

Well he's no BUM. But he's not in the elite class. Perhaps he stood a better chance of a match up with other Welterweight champions. Palomino, Cuevas, Duran, or Gavilan. Even a shootout with Napoles would have been pretty interesting...Baldomir's solid chin would have kept him in the fight, and Napoles' tender skin would have made the bout very interesting. Or even a slugfest with fellow toughman Armando Muniz.

 

UD15, shutout.

 

Leonard would beat him worse than Mayweather did, AND close the show.

 

I dont think SRL stops him. I belive SRL would out point Baldomir, on wide scores. I think Baldomir strenghts comes against foes that COMES at Baldomir, so I think he has a chance against say a Walker, or Basilio, Because he could make it a close fight,(I still think he loses these fights) but he has a better shot at beating a brawler type of fighter than a great defenses boxer.

 

this would be like leonard vs armando muniz.

leonard by late tko....in a onesided fight.