I hired Ray for a conference speaking event. He killed it. He showed all of the great big fight finishes on video, reflected on the win or loss, and we absolutely got our moneys worth. Best company event ever. We bought Everlasting boxing gloves for every attendee and he stayed around and signed every glove. With photos. Priceless. Class act.

@counterculture10

3 ай бұрын

He sure is a class act!!

@bradleymiller7375

3 ай бұрын

DEFINITELY! and a Gentleman!

@paulwabwiiyi9083

2 ай бұрын

A great man he is even to date.

@borood1188

2 ай бұрын

What company?

@markdoughty8780

15 күн бұрын

A phenomenal boxing talent who was unbelievably gifted - thanks for sharing your story.

Duran, Leonard, Hearns, Hagler…. Absolute golden age of boxing! The Four Kings plus a long list of incredible contenders.

@Mr_Furrz2

3 ай бұрын

on't forget about Benitez!!!

@daveyboy_

3 ай бұрын

The Four King's. Great book

@justinfletcher7630

3 ай бұрын

Marvelous is my absolute favorite I still one hundred percent say he won't that fight but sugar ray is an absolute animal

@radar0412

3 ай бұрын

Don't forget "The Hawk" Aaron Pryor!

@counterculture10

3 ай бұрын

@@justinfletcher7630 I'm a big Hagler fan, but I don't understand why people think Hagler won that fight. It was close, don't get me wrong. But Leonard landed more punches. Hagler didn't look like his dominant self. He looked a bit slow and like he wasn't in control. Leonard was just so fast and slipped so many punches. Also, the pace and flow were in Leonard's favor. I do, however, think that had they fought again, Hagler would've won.

Love Ray. I'm 57 and grew up watching him.

@counterculture10

3 ай бұрын

me too

@bradleymiller7375

3 ай бұрын

71 and he's my favorite!

@stefanvanrensburg6096

2 ай бұрын

Me also

@boxingodds2508

2 ай бұрын

God of war

@stefanvanrensburg6096

2 ай бұрын

@@boxingodds2508 god of thunder

Ray was actually “ a business” before Mayweather. It wasn’t just having an attorney as an adviser, it was having a trustworthy attorney as an advisor that was everything.

HE WAS INCREDIBLE AND STILL IS.

Roberto,Leonard,Marvin and Tommy Nobody would come close to these legends vibe and performance,absolute beasts and what an era! The golden age.

@user-bu8ml7gr7w

2 ай бұрын

Aaron Pryor was better then everyone in 80s. FAB 5

The most electric boxer ever!

Back in the 70’s into the 80’s was the apex of the Non-heavyweight fighters. You had Leonard, Duran, Hearns, Hagler all fighting in the same weight class. Then you had guys like Salvador Sanchez, possibly greatest featherweight ever, not to mention Alexis Arguello and Aaron Pryor who gave us two wars of attrition. Great time to be a boxing fan.

@chopperenduro6590

3 ай бұрын

Arguello/Pryor was Huge , Pryor was a beast , just nonstop attack , attack , attack .

What a fascinating guy! He's so honest and insightful. I remember being a child and watching him in the '76 Olympics. When he turned pro, everyone had an eye on him. His supreme talent was evident. What separated him, in my opinion, is that like Ali, he truly had the heart of a champion. He was so darn mentally tough and would will himself to victory against the other greats. He's my favorite boxer of all-time and a marvelous human being.

This is it for me. I first saw him on Wide World Of Sports in 1975 I was in elementary school. I remember all of those moments that they showed. He was even bigger than Reggie Jackson(who was huge) in my eyes. For me the pinnacle was the Hearns fight. I was in 9th grade and we went to see it on closed circuit at Newark Symphony Hall. Sold out so we walked behind the building and watched it on the truck tv. Magical moment🥊

Leonard at welterweight, before he tore his retina, is the greatest fighter in history. He mastered every skill in boxing at the highest level and had no flaws. After the retina tear he took a long lay off and was never the same.

Sugar Ray ............ Legend !!

The GOAT! I remember having gloves, action figure, and a bag . He was a marketing GENIUS!

One of the greatest I ever saw

Great interview. Thanks Sugar Ray for behind the scenes stories.

The greatest era of boxing…and Sugar Ray was center stage 🥊

Sugar Ray.....an exceptional human being and superb athlete....one of the very best.💥😊💥

It is really wonderful to hear him talk about his Olympic experience and his life. He was a childhood hero to so many of us. Excellent interview with an amazing person!

@stefanvanrensburg6096

2 ай бұрын

Now you're talking

Sugar, all the respect. You were so open. You are a gem.

One of the best pound for pound boxer punchers in the history of the sport hands down!!!

My all time hero and the best of the 4 kings from the 80's.

Sugar Ray has been an inspiration from my introduction at the 1976 Olympics to present

I grew up in Maryland when Sugar Ray was coming up through the ranks. Man the entire Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia area was nuts. 👍🏾👌🏽

VERY NICE AND CLASSY GUY. IN 2008, WHEN I HAD PICTURE TAKEN WITH HIM AT AUTO CLUB SPEEDWAY !!!!!!! BEST BOXER EVER !!!!! THANK U VERY MUCH MR. LENOARD ...

The most gracious professional champion of all time.

@victorious1614

2 ай бұрын

Barry Sanders for me!

Gotta love Sugar Ray...

I grew up watching sugar Ray Leonard, ln fact he was my next door neighbor, we went to Jr. High and High school together,we both loved Palmer Park md. In the early 70s

Looks like he STILL can kick ass!! Classy and the best ever!!

I met Ray back in 93 what you see is what you get. He was very humble and a polite gentleman.

My favorite athlete of ALL TIME. Hands down, bar none.

God bless this man

I love watching interviews with Ray & Magic Johnson because they both are still animated & love talking about their respective sport.It’s always must see

What a great entertaining interview with my boxing hero. Of the 4 Kings of the Golden era, SRL was the sweetest!!! In my books, the best boxer of my time❤

Born in 1962 in Wilmington NC The seventies and eighties were the best boxers .

The most complete fighter of all times

Wow, looking forward to this one.

Joe said it all !! Oh the memories, thank you so much Sugar Ray what a a beautiful ride !! Your the GOAT !!! enjoy your retirement sir !! 🙏🙏🙏🙏

One of the all time greats ! Class act generational talent ! Thank you both for this great interview

I had the privilege of meeting Angelo Dundee when I was in elementary school. He came to my elementary school as a representative of Sugar Ray. He was introduced as Ray's trainer. He showed everyone a few boxing moves. He was good guy.

I'm glad I stumbled upon these interviews. I have really enjoyed these. Especially the Joe Buck ones. Thanks for posting them.

Love Joe interviews

sweet sugar man. thxs all the good times

I met Ray at of all things an ob/gyn medical event years ago in Florida where he was promoting the 1-2 punch combination of Rolaids. He was classy, friendly, and interesting; and I greatly enjoyed talking with him. We discussed his first fight with Duran, and Ray just shook his head while saying "he was one good fighter!".

The most complete boxer ever. He knew it all.

I was at SRL vs. Hitman Hearns, the best fight I've ever seen. Also, I met SRL at a nightclub in Vega$, nicest man you'll ever meet, a TRUE Champ.

@outdoorrn2980

2 ай бұрын

Ray Leonard would pound Mayweather.

What a wonderful era of boxing, following the heavyweight legends from the 60’s and 70’s. Ray has always been a class act and is incredibly honest and inspirational. I thoroughly enjoyed this interview.

Gotta love and respect the genuine soul of this guy. ❤

Outstanding, simple as that!

I love Sugar Ray Leonard ❤

Wow such an incredible and amazing person. So big of a personality that he is down to earth and humble. Truly amazing

I knew a lot of boxing fans in the 80's who didn't like Ray Leonard, but to a man, they all said they respected Ray.

The best Sugar Ray Leonard

Leonard shows a lot of class and style in recognizing his own inner strength in overcoming his fears and doubts but also humility and respect for the efforts of his opponents. Joe Buck is an excellent interviewer.

@justinfletcher7630

3 ай бұрын

He's an absolute class act and dawg. But he lost to hagler. outside of that love everything about ray

Very talented guy.

I met Ray at the boxing expo in Las Vegas . He took pictures with the fans for free . He’s genuinely a good person.

The level of boxing in the first Hearns fight was next level from both of them . Great times .

The greatest. He had it all. Heart, guts, skill, charisma.

Good stuff! Memories of my youth, enjoying American Boxing with my dad, a former gold glove featherweight. Truly, i miss watching boxing.

One of the greats in boxing no doubt!

This was excellent

My Cuban Dad loves Sugar Ray. He is the only non-Cuban boxer my Dad actively cheered for and would watch his fights. My family is from Baltimore Highlands/Brooklyn Maryland. Marylanders still love and respect him. Just like my Father and I.

He may be one of the greatest fighters ever but I think he's even a greater human being!!! What a gentleman!!!

I am an ardent boxing lover. And guess who’s my idol; and consider the greatest of all time : Ray Leonard !!! ❤

I saw duran 1 on tv i think i was 8 and couldnt believe it if u were a kid back then boxers were our superheros

Great interview

A class Guy and a great humble Champion 🥊👏

Sugar is the greatest of all time

amazing interview! thank you guys! wow.. I am fighting the diabetes epidemic with my sugar free bakery since 2018! Zambawango out of Atlanta and shipping to everyone nationwide.

Great interview, Buck can get anyone to open up

What a beautiful human being ❤❤

I enjoy watching a boxing match occasionally but would look forward to see Sugar Ray fight. He was never a braggard. Get in the ring, kick butt and exit humbly.

Best Leonard interview ever

Class act 🥊⚘️💯🏆

Love this man...class personified. Mad Dog 🐕 Sweeney

I was born in DC in 1970. Lived in PG country before moving to Montgomery co. I can tell you as a kid playing little league football in Upper Marlboro.. Palmer park was the toughest team we played. It’s not hard to see where Ray gets his toughness.

My all time favorite athlete. I wonder when this interview took place.

Great interviewer

Sugar Ray Leonard is one of the greatest ever big respect and admiration even now hi can smoke so many fighters

The modern era began when the common man had access to vhs, home video. That was the dawn of every fighter on earth having tape on their opponents & it changed the sport. Since then, approximately 1980, theres been nobody p4p better than Leonard. Only Roy Jones enters the conversation but Ray put reigning champions away, whereas Roy would cruize if he wasnt pushed, I think Ray beats him & it looks very similar to the 2 x Tommy Hearns fights. So thats Leonard p4p the best in the modern era, which arguably ended around 2015 when MMA took over as the premier combat sport. So how does he rate on the all time list, or more importantly, how would the fighters before him cope if they have the whole world recording his fights ? That alone gives Ray a credible argument for being the absolute best of all time but outa respect for their reputations & all the boxers & coaches they have inspired, including Ray himself, I rank Sugar Ray Robinson #1 & Ali #2 with Ray #3 & Roy Jones #4.

Ray was my favorite boxer of all time behind Ali period

Floyd speaks like him. In increments. Ray was my first boxing idol. It's hard to fight like Ray

Leonard sugar ray ,,,campion...🥊🥊

Love you Sugar

I was hoping someone would ask the question of how he thought he'd have got on against Robinson at welterweight - talent-wise, nothing in it for me, but, I maybe would have Robinson just slightly tougher. Of course, Leonard made no defences of the Middleweight Crown he took from Hagler, but, relinquished it to go back into retirement (saying he just wanted to beat Hagler and wasn't interested in defending the crown) and Robinson was a five-time Middleweight Champion. So at welterweight, it's even Stephens but Robinson beats him at middleweight. Would Robinson have beaten Hagler at middleweight? Yes, although they may have shared honours in a two or three-fight series. Engaging interview with the great Sugar Ray Leonard. Thanks for uploading.

Just met him! Star struck!! Makes me wanna go exercise

The thing about Duran and his No Mas, I think what happened is that in the first fight, Duran had to go down to his last dregs to beat Leonard. Like Ali did in his last fight with Frazier. Mentally, physically, motivationally…..from every fibre of his being. I think he just didn’t want or just couldn’t go there again. “Fighting” him again would take too much and he didn’t want to do that again. Anything less however, meant that a knockout was inevitable and he didn’t want that either. So ‘No Mas’.

Hometown Fav DMV

This guy put allot of care into his punches 👊🏼

I really admire,Sugar Ray Leonard. He and Muhammad Ali are my Heroes. I met Ali, but my dream now is to meet Leanar d really I am praying to God really that I might meet him one day. I am also retired now and I have become a trainer of boxers now. I am an ex SA Flyweight Champion and in 1995 I became the first South African to win a Commonwealth Title (Belt) in London England. However I am still in love with this Sport called Boxing. When I knockout Francis Ampofo who was the Champion was named as one of the best knockouts of 2021.

Sugar ray Lenard the 🐐 😊

with rays tools(athletic abilities)pound for pound, for his era, was the goat, but there were others too. he had ring generalship, intel, hard puncher, golden boy star power, had great career, no scandels, his language for success i will look into soon...

I was the biggest Sugar Ray Leonard fan in all of NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE BACK WHEN GROWING UP IN THE 70S. I WAS SO DEVASTATED WHEN DURAN BEAT HIM IN THEIR FIRST FIGHT. I WAS SO PISSED CAUSE IM WATCHING IT LIVE ON ABC, I DO BELIEVE. HE ISN'T MOVING THE WAY HE Always did and just not snapping off those combinations. He right in front of DURAN ABSORBING SO MUCH PUNISHMENT. THEN HEARNS DID THE I IMAGINABLE. PUT HIM OUTTA THE SPORT FOREVER WITH THAT BEATING HIS EYE TOOK. RETINA DETACHED I BELIEVE . And yes I know it's called a detached retina. But as those years he was champion and all the great fighters he beat and got beat up bye. The best days of boxing forever. But I saw and loved one other guy as much as I did Sugar Ray. Aaron Pryor. A guy that never got the big MONEY. And ALOT of the reason for that was that RAY WOULDN'T FIGHT HIM. AND AS MUCH AS I Had just said for years, nobody can beat zSugar RAY. BUT AARON PRYOR, COULD HAVE AND WOULD HAVE BEAT RAY. AND HE KNEW IT AND AVOIDED HIM. AND That ALONE HAD ME SO PISSED I STARTED HATING HIM. AND YES RAY DID DUCK AARON PRYOR. ASK HIM. AND IF HE SAID HE DIDN'T, I'LL NEVER HAVE ANY MORE RESECT FOR HIM EVER. I FOUGHT A WHOLE LOT GROWING UP IN NASHVILLE. I WAS ALWAYS THE SMALLEST GUY. BUT I WAS THE SMALL GUY THAT WOULD FIGHT ANYBODY ANY DAY. AND I WON, AND WON A WHOLE LOT. ALWAYS HAVING OTHER REAL BOXERS TRYING TO GET ME INTO IT. BILLY RAY COLLINS WSS A GOOD FRIEND THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN WORLD CHAMPION. SHORT OF PANAMA LEWIS AND HIS FIGHTER IN BILLY RAYS 21, I BELIEVE IT WAS PROFESSIONAL FIGHT. 20 and 0 in his first 20 fights. ALL on ESPN. BUT I DID HAte it when NORRIS JUST BEAT THE HELL OUTTA HIM WITH A KNOCKOUT. AND HE DIDN'T BEAT HAGLER. HE DANCED HIS WAY AROUND TO NOT GETTING KNOCKED OUT. I NEVER GOT INTO IT BECAUSE I RACED MOTOCROSS AND PLAYED FOOTBALL AND BASEBALL. BUT WAS CALLED WHITE MIKE ALL THRU JUNIOR AND HIGH SCHOOL

Shout out to Roger ✌🏾 from the DMV

He’s was one of the Best boxers 😊

The perfect boxer Sugar Ray leonard

He could chop any tree down. - The Best.

Sugar Ray Leonard.. I mean... The man!

Great boxing Era.

Sugar ray still looks 40 years of age ❤❤

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