Who Would Beat A Prime Leonard At Welterweight?

SRR, Mayweather, Whitaker, Hearns.
And some controversial picks for many on this forum: De la Hoya, Amir Khan, Terrence Crawford.
And btw, all matches will only be 12 rounds.

 

Hearns getting tired is what saved him.

 

Sugar Ray, Pat.

Always happy to help.

 

Sugar Ray Robinson 100% & Henry Armstrong & Roberto Duran & Kid Gavilan & Kid Lewis & Jose Napoles
in history great welter weights many some will defeat & some he can be winner success against

 

Plenty of guys COULD beat leonard in a single fight, but Leonard's from the era where guys would fight 2 or 3 times, so over the course of a series, I would bank on Leonard to at least break even with most of the top welters from most of the good eras...

What fights do I think would be most interesting/exciting for Leonard at WW?
Let's see...

Trinidad,
Mayweather,
Mosely,
Griffin,
Whitaker,
Chavez,
Cintron,...

Just to name a few. I would pick Ray to win money of all those fights, except may be Mayweather, but in a 2 or 3 fight series, I think any of those dudes could get a won over Len Dawg

 

I think a lot of the guys mentioned could possibly beat Leonard, with the exception of Armstrong - when I see this fight in my mind, for some reason I just see it as a slaughter by Ray. Just a gut feeling, not sure exactly why. This is not to take away from Hammerin' Hank, he was a top 5 atg.

Understandably, Leonard has all kinds of physical advantages, but that's not why I lean towards him. Even if they were the same size, I still see the same outcome, a St. Valentine's day type ending.

 

Dunno if I'd go 50 percent, but I'd pick Leonard to take at least one of a three fight series from Robinson for sure.

 

Kahn might be too fast/elusive for him. Plus, it's not like SRL was this huge puncher.

 

Are you saying Kermit Cintron would beat Leonard once, if they fought 3X?

 

So far we’ve had the likes of Shawn Crawford and Amir Khan nominated to beat Ray Leonard.

This is the Ray Leonard… Sugar Ray Leonard that you’re talking about and not this Ray Leonard, right?
https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/106598

 

Khan has nothing over Ray and didn`t have his power or chin, Hearns, Duran and Benitez would have out-classed Khan, Ray would have knocked him out.

 

Leonard punched far harder than Prescott and any other lightweight in history, go watch his KO over Boy Green, plus he stopped a big guy like Lalonde, Khan always made mistakes and got caught flush which is why he was easy to knock out, he wasn`t faster than Ray either.

 

Tell that to Dave " boy " Green ...

 

Nah I just threw that last one in there