Quote Originally Posted by Mr140 View Post
I never saw that show Thread Stealer good nit pick by the way very good have some rep on me and by the way who said he ducked him anyhow.
HBO's Legendary Nights showed Pryor challege Leonard at a press conference, and Leonard never fought Pryor.

Butch Lewis was talking about how Leonard supposedly moved up a weight division in the amateurs to avoid Pryor and was handled by him in sparring.

Who doesn't challenge the big names? When does a welterweight champ have an obligation to fight the junior welterweight champ? Leonard had bigger challenges against established fighters in his own division. Of course money played a role in them being bigger names than Pryor, but they were established fighters in Leonard's division, unlike Pryor.

If Pryor did some work at welterweight, then the claim would be much stronger. But Pryor was best suited for divisions below 147.