Sugar Ray was a baby face assassin! Good power, good speed, great balance, cat like reflexes! Amongst the greatest of all time!

There was no doubt who won the fights back then. No early stoppages. What a beating!

I don’t think ppl realize how fast and strong SRL was and I think he’s the GOAT 🐐

2 boxing legends next to each other.....aaron pryor and SRL.

The way Howard Cosell was talking about Leonard in this fight, it's almost as if he knew that Leonard would go down as one of the greatest of all time.

Aaron the Hawk Pryor with him 💪🏾

Check out Aaron Pryor in the back ground.

Look at Aaron Pryor in the background...lol!

Sugar Ray was an excellent finishet and boxed Santore beautifully

I love Howard Cosell. His voice brings back memories. But what was this he was not staggered. He said the guy slipped 😂

The old schoo refs used to make sure that a fighter got the brakes beat off him before the fight was stopped

14:25 that combo was sum serious 🤣

The great Arron Pryor in the background during Cosell’s and Sugar’s interview ❤ after the fight🥊

Howard was the best voice and had so much knowledge of the sweet science. Watching these old classic fights hearing that voice and play by play action

Aaron Pryor peaking behind the interview lol

Just beautiful.

14:30 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Howard was so obnoxious on Monday Night Football, but he is the summit of announcers in boxing. This was the best announced fight I have ever heard.

It can't be a Sugar Ray Leonard fight without "The Windmill Punch"

That walk down 🥶

SRL would smoke Floyd in their primes

First time Ive seen this fight. I dont know who Frank Santore is. but he's a good liitle fighter. I have respect for him.But SRL was climbing!

Sugar Ray Leonard is an all time great. When Ray fought Roberto Duran. The greatness seed that Duran gave Sugar Ray Leonard after that fought is a huge part of Ray's greatness as a fighter because Roberto Duran was already considered to be the greatest lightweight that ever lived. The old timers felt that way because of Duran's incredible intensity and extremely high skill level that he brought to the table. Duran was very unique animal. Duran would have torn Floyd Mayweather, Jr to pieces in a fight. Consider the Maidana and Castillo fights with little Floyd. Floyd Mayweather struggled in those matches in a big way. Duran was in a entirely different league as a fighter than Maidana or Castillo. Getting back to Sugar Ray Leonard it was his versatility that made him so great. He beat the great Tommy Hearns. How did Sugar accomplish such a mind blowing victory over such a fabulous boxer as Hearns? Hearns was very fast and I would argue that Hearns was the hardest puncher in welterweight history. Watch Hearns fight with with Roberto Duran. If Hearns could have punched just a little harder with his right hand that night, Duran's head would exploded upon impact! It was a horrible and the same time and amazing punch to behold. The sound of the punch in the arena was so loud one might conjure at the moment in the arena that an atomic bomb was detonated against Duran's head!!! Hearns was over six feet tall and wing span that was like a heavyweight. His jab was pristine and for a welterweight that jab was powerful and super fast. Nobody could out jab Tommy Hearns. If you saw Tommy Hearns walk around in his prime you would come to the conclusion that Ray was not going to beat Hearns even with all the amazing blessings Ray Leonard had as a great fighter. Ray struggled mightily through the whole fight and was losing on all cards until he stopped Tommy Hearns in a breathtaking fight in the 14 th round. Tommy Hearns would have stopped Floyd Mayweather, Jr. in 10 rounds or less had they fought as welterweights most likely. Floyd would have been hard pressed to win a round in a fight with Tommy Hearns! Sugar Ray Leonard against Floyd Mayweather, Jr., would have been a hard fight for Sugar Ray because of the styles and Floyd's great defensive skill. Leonard would have to dig deep, had they fought. It would likely have gone the distance with Sugar Ray's because of all Ray's uncommon intangibles as a fighter, that allowed him to beat all those all time great fighters like with very different styles like Wifredo Benitez, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns and Marvelous Marvin Hagler. Ray's intangible aspects as fighter is what made Sugar Ray Leonard so great. Ray may very well be the most cagey fighter in boxing history. Ray would likely beat Floyd because Leonard somehow adapted so well to all fighter styles. Ray just figured out how to beat other fighters intuitively as he did the above great fighters with their very different styles of each man. Which leads me to believe that he would have solved the Floyd Mayweather, Jr. puzzle as well. With that being written, I do think Floyd Mayweather, Jr was the greatest 130 pound fighter that I ever saw fight. He was one of the greatest fighters period. And, as of this writing Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is 50-0 and he has made more money than any fighter in boxing history. All these guys in this commentary are so far above most motal boxing world champions. Is it even possible to categorize a professional boxing world champion a mere mortal in the first place? The men herein sit high atop the mythical Mount Olympus of boxing.

This is the epitome of boxing.

Did you see AAron Pryor sitting behind him during post fight interview?

My favorite ko in all of boxing!

Pretty Sugar Ray extremely gifted strategic dynamic Heyy dey boxer icons

Nadie commo ĺenaŕ el mejor d todó los tienpo

До чего же прекрасно Фрэнк двигается! Фантастика!

Bro that knock out is crazy mane I was going have to get my rematch or sum

I met this challenger at my job, Frank Santore, super cool guy

It actually looks like the movie Apollo movie LMAO

Thank you :)

Brilliant

.learned a lot in Montreal

Ray was doing Jack Johnson Jersey Joe at twenty one

Best fight

POUND FOR POUND SUGAR RAY WAS THE BEST OF ALL TIME. Sorry Ali fans.

Sugar gained predominance from studying the great’s before him and developed it into the science of boxing

18:04

@2:58 Cosell gives the most direct description of the two fighters that you may have ever heard. And it had nothing to do with the color of their trunks. 😆😆

5:55 How can this fight have 13 more minutes?!? Haha. Sugar is beating that ass… damn

Did I just hear Cosell?? Sugar Ray, the Black fighter, Sanrore, the white fighter? I thought they go by color of fighting trunks..lol. Sounded very ignorant.

That referee is Tom kelly

Fight should have been stopped in 2

there's Aaron Pryor..

Aaron Pryor a troll..

@2:59 - dont think that would pass today

Apologies

rob lee- you dont know boxing period!!! srl would have knocked mayweather out in is youth or his prime mayweather had no power and no body knocked out leonard!! in his prime or his youth you are so ignorant when it comes to boxing srl was a legend look how he embarrassed his daddy with only 11 professional fights, 49-0 = 49 nobodies!!! mayweather could not have been a champion in leonards era the fab 5 would have beaten the running floyd not a real boxer only in it for the money.every one knows it,know your boxing before saying something ridiculous !!!your money man lost to sugar shane mosley but sugar got robbed by the judges!! face it mayweather will never be looked as a real fighter ever!! only a runner!!!

Rocky Balboa vs sugar

Solo hay tres mejores peleadores Mike tason y sugar era americano Y latino solo era roberto duran mano de piedra

Dirty game all for money

Piss poor referee

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AAron pryor literally stalked SuGar Ray for years and never got a big fight with him. So sad. He was well deserved to.

Once again, endless bollocks from Howard Cossell. Possibly the worst boxing commentator ever.

FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR. WOULD HAVE STOPPED SUGAR RAY,PRETTY BOY WOULD HAVE KNOCKED HIM OUT ,MONEY WOULD HAVE STOPPED HIM ! FACT #49-0