Sugar Ray Leonard (Sugar) is a 68-year-old retired American professional boxer. He is a four-weightclass world champion with 10 world-title wins. In a career spanning 20 years and 24 days, Leonard amassed a record of 36-3-1, which includes 25 wins via KO, 8 of which were in world-title fights. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) in 1997.
Sugar Ray Leonard was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S. on May 17, 1956. He made his professional debut at the age of 20 years on February 5, 1977 against Luis Vega. Leonard defeated Vega via 6-round unanimous decision, making a successful beginning of his pro career.
Leonard became a world champion fight at the age of 23 after 25 professional fights. He challenged Wilfred Benítez for the WBC and The Ring welterweight titles and stopped the champion in the final round of the 15-round fight, winning his first world titles.
He then went on to successfully conquer the super-welterweight (WBA, The Ring), middleweight (WBC, The Ring), and super-middleweight (WBC) divisions as well to become a four-division world champion — and undisputed at welterweight.
Leonard's last fight was a 5th-round TKO loss to Héctor Camacho at age 40, on March 1, 1997.
Some of Sugar Ray Leonard's best fights have been against Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Roberto Durán (HOFer), Thomas Hearns (HOFer), Donny Lalonde, Wilfred Benítez (HOFer), Dave Boy Green, and Marcos Geraldo. For a complete list of Leonard's best fights and their details, refer to "Best fights of Sugar Ray Leonard".
Leonard has 3 losses on his record. For details about these losses refer to "Sugar Ray Leonard Losses".
# | Date | Age | Opponent | Res | Via |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
40 | Mar 01, 1997 | 40 |
Héctor Camacho 34 62-3-1 | loss | TKO 5 |
39 | Feb 09, 1991 | 34 |
Terry Norris 23 25-3 | loss | UD 12 |
38 | Dec 07, 1989 | 33 |
Roberto Durán 38 85-7 | win | UD 12 |
37 | Jun 12, 1989 | 33 |
Thomas Hearns 30 46-3 | draw | SD 12 |
36 | Nov 07, 1988 | 32 |
Donny Lalonde 28 31-2 | win | TKO 9 |
35 | Apr 06, 1987 | 30 |
Marvelous Marvin Hagler 32 62-2-2 | win | SD 12 |
34 | May 11, 1984 | 27 | Kevin Howard | win | TKO 9 |
33 | Feb 15, 1982 | 25 | Bruce Finch | win | TKO 3 |
32 | Sep 16, 1981 | 25 |
Thomas Hearns 22 32-0 | win | TKO 14 |
31 | Jun 25, 1981 | 25 |
Ayub Kalule 27 36-0 | win | TKO 9 |
30 | Mar 28, 1981 | 24 | Larry Bonds | win | TKO 10 |
29 | Nov 25, 1980 | 24 |
Roberto Durán 29 72-1 | win | TKO 8 |
28 | Jun 20, 1980 | 24 |
Roberto Durán 29 71-1 | loss | UD 15 |
27 | Mar 31, 1980 | 23 |
Dave Boy Green 26 33-2 | win | KO 4 |
26 | Nov 30, 1979 | 23 |
Wilfred Benítez 21 38-0-1 | win | TKO 15 |
25 | Sep 28, 1979 | 23 | Andy Price | win | KO 1 |
24 | Aug 12, 1979 | 23 | Pete Ranzany | win | TKO 4 |
23 | Jun 24, 1979 | 23 | Tony Chiaverini | win | RTD 4 |
22 | May 20, 1979 | 23 |
Marcos Geraldo 24 51-14 | win | UD 10 |
21 | Apr 21, 1979 | 22 | Adolfo Viruet | win | UD 10 |
20 | Mar 24, 1979 | 22 | Daniel Aldo Gonzalez | win | TKO 1 |
19 | Feb 11, 1979 | 22 | Fernand Marcotte | win | TKO 8 |
18 | Jan 11, 1979 | 22 | Johnny Gant | win | TKO 8 |
17 | Dec 09, 1978 | 22 | Armando Muniz | win | RTD 6 |
16 | Nov 03, 1978 | 22 | Bernardo Prada | win | UD 10 |
15 | Oct 06, 1978 | 22 | Randy Shields | win | UD 10 |
14 | Sep 09, 1978 | 22 |
Floyd Mayweather Sr. 25 15-1 | win | TKO 10 |
13 | Jul 18, 1978 | 22 | Dicky Eklund | win | UD 10 |
12 | Jun 03, 1978 | 22 | Rafael Rodriguez | win | UD 10 |
11 | May 13, 1978 | 21 | Randy Milton | win | TKO 8 |
10 | Apr 13, 1978 | 21 | Bobby Haymon | win | RTD 3 |
9 | Mar 19, 1978 | 21 | Javier Muniz | win | KO 1 |
8 | Mar 01, 1978 | 21 | Art McKnight | win | TKO 7 |
7 | Feb 04, 1978 | 21 | Rocky Ramon | win | UD 8 |
6 | Dec 17, 1977 | 21 | Hector Diaz | win | KO 2 |
5 | Nov 05, 1977 | 21 | Augustin Estrada | win | KO 6 |
4 | Sep 24, 1977 | 21 | Frank Santore | win | KO 5 |
3 | Jun 10, 1977 | 21 | Vinnie DeBarros | win | TKO 3 |
2 | May 14, 1977 | 20 | Willie Rodriguez | win | UD 6 |
1 | Feb 05, 1977 | 20 | Luis Vega | win | UD 6 |