Sugar Ray Leonard was Better than Sugar Ray Robinson

Tommy was a cheat code at 147, but it was shocking to see Ray clearly lose 11 rounds before landing grazing punches that managed to cripple him. Tommy was literally toying with Ray until he got hurt. Even with Tommy's advantages, it ought to have been more evenly matched before the stoppage.

 

Leonard wasn't fit to carry Robinsons jockstrap as the saying goes. Folk in Texas back then named him snake eyes. We were at his last fight with Camacho. Don's idea was to get in ring & embarrass him into fighting him. But when we saw what a pathetic money grabber he was, he didn't try to win. Don agreed that he wouldn't embarrass himself by fighting Leonard

 

I completely agree. Hearns filled out very nicely at jnr middleweight and Robinson was a natural jnr midde when he was fighting at middleweight. That would have been a fascinating fight. The best jnr middleweight ever in Hearns against a guy who could have been the best junior middleweight if he’d fought there.

 

Roy Jones was something completely unique. He made the above fighters appear slow, which is crazy.

 

Hearns is seriously underrated by a few posters at welterweight .
Though some welters had more title defenses at the weight only
two in the history of the division beat him in my opinion
That's Robinson and Leonard.
Those are the only two that had the right combination of size, toughness,
speed, power, chin and skills.
Everyone else at the weight lacked at least one of those attributes.
So yes some had more title defenses, like Pipino Cuevas who
is number 3 in history for title defenses at the weight........
But how much did that fact help him against Hearns????

 

In no way, shape or form is Duran stronger than Robinson.
Duran is the smaller man here fighting a bigger guy who's got everything and more.
SRR knocks Duran spark out, it ain't even close.

 

It’s just the difference between H2H and greatness/overall achievement as to why some are saying he’s overrated or underrated. I think most rate him H2H as a welter extremely highly.

Like you say, Flash, probably only behind Leonard (demonstrably) and Robinson.

 

Agree sugar ray leonard was the better fighter..people rank robinson so high because they think they are supposed to

 

I don't think its wise to assume Leonard was faster than Robinson. All of the film we have of SRR is at 160lbs post 30 years old. As a middlweight he looked blazing fast against Turpin their rematch.

My guess is their speed would be about even and probably cancel each other out. Power? Well that goes to Robinson by a good margin. He has legit one punch power in either hand.

I do think Leonard fought inside a little better. Robinson appears to be a superior athlete in terms of agility, range and his footwork was effortless. The way he knocked Dykes down when he was floating backwards was what the oldtimers told us. They wern't lying. I dont think anyone else could do that.

Robinson fought and beat alot of tough middleweights when he was a skinny welterweight. Why do you think he was fighting 160lbers? Most Welters were scared of getting their heads torn off. He had to agree to carry guys at 147 occasionally to stay busy.

Duran could trouble Robinson with his own unique talent. Sugar Ray could possibly knock Montreal Duran out if he catches him with one of those lefthooks square. It would be dangerous tearing at Robinson like that in that weight class.

Overall i would go with Robinson to beat Duran and Leonard. I dont know that i would bet it though. Its elite level so anything is possible.