What was sugar Ray Leonard's greatest performance?

Best win was the first fight with Hearns.

Best performance, all things considered, was against Benitez. El Radar made SRL miss a lot that evening, but I'd be hard pressed to give Benitez any more than four or five rounds throughout that entire fight. Pretty impressive stuff.

 

mate your one of my fav posters and i hate to argue with you but from my point of view hearns at this point was not the man we saw a few years after. he was a jab-cross fighter and had a left hook to the body your right but he wasnt matured yet. he was a young fighter and was years away from ray. ray had been a star for a long time he had warmed to it hearns hadnt and was enjoy the detroit love he got.

his left hook to the body was amazing but he didnt use it at this stage of his life as much as he did at higher wieghts. he was a puncher but had only just now got into his frame in the amatuers he only had 15 ko's in a 100+ record...he had only just started to learn while ray had been in top form ,the olympics was a big step up.

my idea was that ray didnt know how fast hearns was and only until he got into the ring with him. technical abilties came late on in life at this point in time...he wasnt the hitman he was the moter city cobra

 

SPOT ON MATE

 

Duran had some over-the-WW-limit bouts before he faced Ray.

Benitez was heavier in the Palomino fight before he faced Ray. Benitez was light against Leonard, weighing 144.5. He probably trained harder than usual, meaning he worked out twice a month instead of the usual one time.

 

Agree.