Who Deserves the Blame for Leonard-Pryor not happening?

pryor would of been a tough fight for anyone at any weight, but Leonard, Duran, and Hearns could all match him power wise. The Hawk did have an amateur win over Hearns, but that was before Hearns developed into a puncher in the pros. I'm wondering why he didn't challenge Tommy or Roberto in the pros? The Hawk was a great entertainer man, but he would of gotten his first losses against those guys. According to him he had acouple of sparring wars with SRL and of all the times they came out 50-50. He should of moved up from 140lbs is all I have to say if he really wanted it so bad. Beat acouple of 147lbers like Cuevas or Palomino , which would of been another war, and then cause the public to demand a fight. But he never made an effort or any noise at 147.

 

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How old are some of you? Were you even watching Boxing at this time? Pryor was chasing SRL around the country showing up at all his post fight press conferences demanding a fight. Leonard wanted NOTHING to do with Pryor.

Some of you are trying to have revisionist history. Leonard would only fight you on his terms ie: what weight class he wanted, his gloves, his ring size, his location etc.

 

Are you sure you are not confusing Roy Jones with Aaron Pryor?

SRL wanted nothing to do with the guy. At all. Pryor got 1.5 and 1.6 mil for his 2 fights with Arguello. Why would he take 500k to fight SRL at about the same point and time?

 

Its funny how people refuse to let the facts get in way of a good story.

Obviously Pryor was not confident of beating Ray or he would have taken the offer...which as Thread Stealer has pointed out ad nauseam was a **** load more than what he was making at the time and quite frankly a **** load more than what he was worth given his profile at the time.

 

Cocaine ...?

 

From what I can gather it wasnt around the same time. The offer was made at least a year before the Arguello fights.

Pryor also turned down $750K to fight Duran...I think he turned down pretty good money to fight Mamby.

After the Arguello fight he went back the fighter for purses around and under the $500K mark, even after his profile was at an alltime high with his two televised wars with Alexis.

People got in Pryor's ear, which caused a managerial tug of war that pretty much killed his money making potential...and Aaron was as much to blame for this.

 

The money path didn't no favor for Leonard to fight Pryor, the big pay days where against the Fav 5 at the time....now...Pryor at 140lbs match power against any of the Fav 5

 

Pryor.

 

Doesnt deserve to be in the same building ???
What you are demonstating is your "**** For Brains Intelligence".

 

Dont think so.
Leonard doesnt handle the pressure.

 

If that's true (and you believe anything in Legendary Nights) then I have to blame Pryor. Understand this is sadly just from what ive heard and now read as at my age I dont remember boxing until the late 80's. But if you take Pryor from Legendary Nights basically saying he woulda done anything to fight bigger names and especially Sugar Ray, then why not take half a million dollars 30 years ago, beat the man and then get the even bigger paydays yourself. Half a million dollars i'll fight Sugar Ray Leonard right now..lol..though I couldnt make weight.

 

The press would have massacred Leonard for fighting a nobody from a smaller weight class.