Sugar Ray Leonard - The Complete Career Documentary

children Ray Leonard was one of the leading boxers in the world in the 1970s and 80s as the Rings most charismatic figure began a slow fade into the twilight of his luminous career the young Ray Charles Leonard dreamed of following in the footsteps his heavyweight idol a champion in the boxing world inspired my heroes I saw Bob Holly and I want to be so much like he was more than a boxer he was considered an entertainer he's Bert it's in national prominence in Montreal Sugar Ray Leonard from the United States was a popular favorite here so far young man from the Washington DC area of Palmer Park Maryland early on it was very clear there was something special with that sugar it [Music] so it's you but against the United State House Aimie against Ray Leonard when Ali left we'd never thought there would be another major attraction Ray Charles Leonard was born 35 years ago in Wilmington North Carolina and boxing was literally the only way he could find to get out of the ghetto [Applause] he says he's just someone who never could pass up a good fight ever since the 1976 Olympics where he pummeled a Cuban to win the gold medal for the United well perfect timing Raymond realize I [Applause] all of a sudden Sugar Ray Leonard is the people's choice and I tell you everywhere he goes the man commands a crowd [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] great thought it would be his last fight and I really was sincere about not fighting again I just felt that if anything he wanted to go to college but with both parents ill he decided that a boxing career was a financial necessity my father spinal meningitis and tuberculosis he was nearly three days and to watch on home after his success at the Olympics Leonard wanted to go to college however his father became ill his family needed money formed a team to continue his boxing education Jenks Martin meet Dave Jacobs is trainer and Angelo Dundee is manager it must be a little different fighting for your parents survival but it is just fighting for yourself family was really down and out and I felt it was my obligation to really help him out [Applause] whatever one because it has been for so many others born with little raised fists delivering him from the streets [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he reminded me so much of Ally even in his expression but he had his mouth open tell him Vega to come to him [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Leonard is the obvious successor to Muhammad Ali Italo await the all-american boy the ex Olympic champion rags-to-riches overnight trigger ahead of them he had the looks he had the ability he was agreeable to white America and not only just black America Sugar Ray was a marketing model boxing community watching sugar a very closely he's a cover sugarberry Lenny had a very like sweet style man [Applause] [Applause] he was so smooth he just understood how to how to work the ring in the end how to make it look super easy [Music] well what time it was when boxing was Kings I went to the ring I was a beast first-round action I've told people all over the world that Bruce Lee was one of my idols and he could generate so much speed and velocity and his performance from a 21 year old the type of never choose able to gain because he knew he understood the mechanics of the body the water can flow or it can crash be water my friend [Applause] it is over Sugar Ray Leonard [Applause] so jubilation and if there was a time when people doubted his progression from Olympic hero welterweight champion in the early stages of my career I was criticized quite often because people felt that I was being moved along too quickly oh there it's done on it doc and of course Sugar Ray is the man who believes in simple designs like those red-hot Bill Cosby hit - that brings dog once in a while fighter comes along who transcends the spot you they let down exam to the end of the fifth ground gonna go right Leonard who can fooled you with his punching power Sugar Ray Leonard your beliefs and why not the young man has just captured his fifth consecutive professional victory he was most charismatic fighter out there one writer called him a combination of Madison Avenue Main Street and Marvel Comics as predicted Leonard began a steady march toward greatness as a professional fighter [Music] well Sugar Ray Leonard's is charismatic they refine boxing machine with dazzling speed Ray Charles Leonard is the most celebrated fighter in the world today [Music] skills and god-given talent the 1976 Olympic champion [Applause] [Music] [Applause] that declan's mother is coming to the corner and and she is suggesting to some of the corner people to stop the fight if he gets in any more trouble [Applause] things that being thrown in the wing the mandatory it was much more than enough becoming louder way raise quick feed and his Kip is an entertainer in the bold of Muhammad Ali made in boxing's richest contender in history we put Ray Leonard on the cover of ko magazine we sold we had been used to doing that with Ali I covered all your great fights and they were great Olympic champion of the world under be the pro ranch Sugar Ray I believe that in your prime you would have knocked out Floyd Mayweather Jr in his prime the gray would like to finish it off am I right about that yes he would laugh with his father I fought his father back in 1978 a knock knock down in the 10th round fights every minute of the round he's ambitious he wants to be a great man in the ring he has a lot of tools to be that great man [Applause] [Applause] the 14th love the 80s they've raised me as a boxing fan post Muhammad Ali that's what I grew up on it'll be unbeaten boxing sensation Sugar Ray Leonard trying for his 19th straight professional win [Applause] [Music] the bell for round one day action begins in 1979 Sugar Ray's most impressive performance to date took place when he knocked out the P trans Annie in four rounds to win the North American Boxing Federation welterweight championship I'm not known to be a big puncher I'm known to be consistent puncher and the first doesn't get shot because the next one many fans and some critics felt Leonard had been a media creation unlike other boxers Leonard did not sign a long-term contract with a single boxing promoter the winner and you NVA willfully Pippin Leonard's fights were either broadcast on NBC CBS HBO or ABC this wide exposure gained Leonard a tremendous following in America and around the world it also generated resentment amongst some fans reporters and boxers we are almost two minutes into round one [Applause] [Applause] [Music] right now it was obvious to everyone that Leonard was ready to battle for the championship that's when he signed to meet undefeated Wilfredo Bonet tez for the WBC world welterweight title it was a battle of the unbeaten when Sugar Ray Leonard an Olympic gold medalist challenged Wilfredo Benitez for the WBC welterweight championship on November 30th of 1979 he and Leonard in a staredown he was an exceptional fighter was an undefeated fighter I don't have the Express deal with me today but I have a party again the staredown continued the flash knock down here in the third we're afraid of bonitas to win your first title we're Benitez was undefeated he was considered soared to a welterweight World Championship in only three years confirming his arrival as boxing's face of the king after turning pro you said you turned pro you won a championship two years later like how much fun was it being Sugar Ray Leonard in 1979 - hey well I'll tell you what it was almost too much fun because I'm making money you started the more famous people stop baby boy Green says he has a secret weapon well he kept it a secret because we have no idea how he's going to go against this vast young man born 23 years ago in Wilmington North Carolina how long have you trained for the Sugar Ray Leonard bout well trained since Christmas you know three months I've been I've been about forty miles road running 150 sparring rounds you know I'm really ready the hometown darling an American Hero [Applause] [Music] looking at Sugar Ray Leonard like I don't like you baby looked at the tassels on Sugar Ray's white and red shoes sugar I didn't like it right ladders the charismatic 24-year old WBC welterweight champion [Applause] how America's newest hero [Music] most fighters would have gone they scored one of the most devastating knockouts I think we've ever seen against baby boy green [Music] [Music] baby boy green ears out showing you this tremendous speed of miss likeable boys 23 year Sugar Ray Leonard what aisle fighter it was the most macho fighter in boxing those demonic black coal eyes if even the admittance and eyes he got it to get under my skin he really did he just in a talk trash curse will entrust my wife he seen Sugar Ray Leonard's wife at a press conference he flipped her off and yelled for I was in awe of the whole event made the huge cameras and all reporters from around the world it was just too big I mean I lost perspective [Applause] that aren't abandoned what we've really the key to beating I like using my Fox and use my speed I wanted going there and I went [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you would determine not to run not to botch you wanted to go toe-to-toe with them I just got almost I got so frustrated the RAM punch would just like cinder blocks [Applause] she's ever been hit with as a professional [Applause] still stays flat-footed with him I tried to oust let him I tried [Applause] [Music] [Applause] which was not smart by any means [Applause] fifteen miles of that much taught me a major lesson that I got a think first - yep incredible fight not what we expected at all I figured there to be a dancing Leonard but he wants to beat Goliath I tell you one thing it is even realized that I'm losing fight until you know 12th rounds [Applause] I'll give it my all and if I get knocked out oh well but I'm about to go toe-to-toe and show this man he ain't gonna make me quit I rather die than quit [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] a panda fight I laid in my room all sore as hell and all sudden he walked into the room he's a dad if I had an ounce of your heart I'll be okay the rest of my life tears came to my eyes I mean he didn't know how how could I felt I called Mike Trainor my attorney and I said Mike I want to fight Roberto Duran again ASAP the rematch happened just five months after the first fight surrounded by his entourage Sugar Ray Leonard the challenge the champion going into last June 20th but after that the challenge here comes the champion openly says I'm so focused I'm so I'm ready to go now it's totally different attitude and then Ray Charles st. Anthony the contrary to popular belief you're not named after Sugar Ray Robinson it is actually like HRO no clue that Ray Charles is gonna be in the ring performing what we're going to be our anthem that night you know they say stars lined up that the stars line [Music] [Applause] [Music] and Leonard who was very tense and made hours earlier now seems oddly poised been done we'll be back with the start of the fight that won't come over to me it gives me a big hug a big kiss and he says kick his ass there was no way I was a loser when the bell rung when Ray Charles finished singing America the Beautiful hi do i buddy read gets us a right and left lands all right that's the Sugar Ray Leonard punches through the crowd these two men do not like each other [Applause] what do you think really happened that night in the super-heavy Leonard came to fight then as you son learn confidence personified very confidential if he could do this for 15 rounds then you have a new champion I was using my footwork and my speed never really got a stroke and when I did I spent a spa owner refuses to get pinned against her own plug it in at Montreal go back and watch that and look at his Duran's eyes it wasn't those piercing eyes and it is a vastly different human bein that Durant is he got personal with you and you were handling Duran in that second fight you even taunted him throughout the fight doing a little dodgy the frustration humiliation they laughter the most famous fates in boxing history I think everyone remembers a bolo punch in the wind and up the right hand and hitting them with a [Applause] when you heard the fans or the audience lag the more I did it I think those things just totally short-circuited Roberto Duran [Applause] I think he's quitting gonna eat said no more and then he did it a second time hands of stone turned his back on Sugar Ray and uttered the now infamous words No Mas [Applause] I'm talking about quitting in the center of the Ring that's the worst way that you can quit [Applause] with you claimed to be the baddest the toughest the roughest the meanest fighter in the world Durant is quit because any woman knock him out I hold no respect for him as far as a man's concern I respect him as a fighter don't get me wrong I respect him as a fighter and as his accomplishments his credentials but as a man I don't I can't I can't does that make it more satisfying that you may have made the roughest toughest fighter at that time just basically capitulate by 1980 the boxing world had to welterweight title holders Thomas the Hitman Hearns and Sugar Ray Leonard 6-3 6-4 some say six problem he's tall no question about it long arms steam power Thomas Hearns remain Leonard's last barrier to greatness that fight was the most important fight of my professional boxing career tanya is the best and I had to prove that was addressed by people and most people even my brother wanted to fight good evening and a very warm welcome to international sports special which highlights a significant milestone in the history of boxing the richest fight ever staged Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Tommy Hearns for the undisputed welterweight championship of the world no fight since the ali/frazier confrontation 10 years ago has created such a few Rory there now it's going to be the richest fight in boxing history WBC welterweight champion Sugar Ray Leonard has after the right okay is now give us a gift of two rounds - Tommy earth Birds Jabba's father Leonard notify the curtain is back at it I think most people would agree with that the seventies and eighties there were more solid contender Leonard taking a beating here by waiving the right hand that way yeah this is not Roberto Duran they cover you now laughing at it [Applause] just making fun of Sugar Ray Leonard like let her make fun of Durant there's a bell cool collected that making a shopping block of Leonard now [Music] [Applause] first time we'd ever seen Thomas in trouble butter to question how long and then can carry his punch 30 and he carry it into the dirty phone round [Music] by the end of the 12th round Burns had boxed his way back to a significant lead on all three judges scorecards with three rounds remaining Leonard's legacy was on the line slit I had no peripheral vision I always felt me that that was maybe the greatest performance finally Klenner has to fight a desperate fight good night [Applause] there's the first knockdown of the as a suitor a Lenin must be dynamite [Applause] now it's been in 44 I'm is running out of time here trouble he's too weak is nothing to be [Applause] [Music] [Applause] a slight injury we fought for the undisputed welterweight crown and I beat Thomas in Lausanne our major nidal the title of greatest ever was within his grasp when training for about in the spring of 1982 he suffered a detached retina of the left eye just defeated Tommy Hearns identify the title and things were just getting better for me and then I was the American public is focused its attention on Ray Leonard's eyes desperately searching for answers all the money in the world is not worth the risk of losing the sight of one [Music] [Applause] [Music] the five years it was a dream fight brought only in imagination a fight cut down in its prime like Ray Leonard by injury a violent dance Undead [Music] five years ago when Ray Leonard was as good as any fighter I ever saw I thought he'd beat Hagler today I don't I thought that at the time is my time right now and and he's in my time you know his time was when he first come up with metrics and all that stuff before he retired so now Sugar Ray Leonard faces a new challenge millions of Americans are wondering why a wealthy young man would risk the precious sense of sight to achieve a historical greatness many believe he is already record Sugar Ray Leonard does he actually have a shot at beating Marvin Hagler beams it out here the feeling is everybody wants Leonard to win of course with the exception of the New England contingent but everybody thinks tag or will you have to wager $370 on Marvin to win $100 basically he is better than a three and a half two favorite three and half to one favorite the risk of losing the site of one cleaned out if you read the papers do you know what everybody says it's suicide and what you tell me I can't if steam you know how strong he is you can't win I'm back fights don't work they don't work you look at boxing history forget about the name is Leonard and hacker they can't call him fighter a and fighter big the fighter The Fighter V is the fighter who comes out of retirement boxing history will show you it doesn't work and former undefeated we'll do it in the world [Applause] period the WBC middleweight champion in the world [Music] [Applause] I believe necessarily back into the fight but that's in the gym because they got yeah he was calling him but Woodson is calling an assistant he said stop and fight like a man you a [ __ ] I couldn't be kind of physically I had to be them psychologically and spiritually for my money one of the best fights I've ever seen more than 100 combined punches thrown by the treeview [Applause] and he's loved up and hid under the stomach and I got the golden hammer [Applause] one thing that is very apparent now bastard here it's almost impossible to conceive of somebody coming back at this level after a virtual five-year and fifty day layoff and there is Ray Leonard coming back [Applause] with these going into his web it was almost like you know I go into my hanging and people thinking we're learners not gonna win this fight and you know we're just watching an execution [Applause] [Music] [Applause] sugar ray [Applause] Ray Leonard claim before this fight I'm unique and if you get the decision that will be confirmed [Applause] I've learned one of the most magnificent performances ever seen [Music] I mean nobody brings it home like chill it's nobody

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Length: 39min 56sec (2396 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 31 2018

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Fantastic video(s) from Joseph Vincent, check out all this dudes stuff they're great . Clearly lots of work goes into these videos. I'd rather watch paint dry than golf but his recent Tiger Woods video is also a must see.

He will be releasing a Tyson Fury video next week also which i'm sure will be amazing.

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Sugar Ray Leonard is my favorite boxer ever.

I think he took what made Ali great and added his own twist to it.

Used to be a pretty good commentator but lately he’s turned a bit sickening.