Quote Originally Posted by Mr140 View Post
Alright my favorite fighter is and always will be Sugar Ray Leonard. Alright here are the highlights to his career he was a champion WW, LMW, MW, SMW and LHW and also his best wins as Duran, Hearns, Benitez and Hagler he was the top dog out of all of them only one beat them all. He was also in one of the toughest eras of boxing so go ahead and pick away.
Here's my attempt at nit-picking.

Wilfred Benitez trained just 5 days for the Leonard fight, less than his usual 8 days of training, and chased women 4 days a week during his "camp", rather than his usual 3 days a week. He was also dating Ray's sister.

Roberto Duran peaked two divisions lower, and won clearly. Leonard gave Duran an immediate rematch, knowing Duran would balloon in weight and party, and Duran was weakened for the rematch. Still, Duran was competitive before quitting.

Tommy Hearns was two pounds under 147, perhaps overtrained, and who knows if Leonard could've gotten to Hearns if the fight were scheduled for 12 rounds, like today's rules?

Ayub Kalule was untested.

Leonard waited until he had seen that Marvin Hagler had slowed, and even then, it was a controversial decision. He made Donny Lalonde shrink down from his natural weight so he could fight for two divisional titles, and only rematched Hearns because Tommy appeared to be a shot fighter.

Leonard fought sporadically from 1982-on, never fighting the likes of Mike McCallum, Michael Nunn, etc..