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- NAME: Sugar Ray Leonard
- OCCUPATION: Boxer
- BIRTH DATE: May 17, 1956 (Age: 57)
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Rocky Mount, North Carolina
- Full Name: Ray Charles Leonard
- AKA: Sugar Ray Leonard
- ZODIAC SIGN: Taurus
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Sugar Ray Leonard was a champion Olympic and professional welterweight boxer. He retired from the sport in 1997 and was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame.
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By the age of 20, Sugar Ray Leonard had won three golden gloves, a gold medal at the Pan American games, and an Olympic gold medal In 1976, Leonard considered retiring and going to college, but continued to fight, becoming a boxing legend.
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As a pro, Leonard matched the same success he'd had as an amateur fighter. In November 1979, he won the World Boxing Council's welterweight title, and over the next decade, he fought in some of boxing's most memorable bouts, winning nearly all of them. His victories included wins over Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns.
Leonard retired in 1984, but a few years later, in 1987,
stepped back into the ring to upset "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler for the middleweight crown. To this day, the '87 Leonard-Hagler bout is widely considered one of the greatest fights in boxing history.
Leonard retired from boxing for good in 1997, finishing his pro boxing career with a 36-3-1 record and 25 knockouts. Later that year, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
In Recent Years
In 2011, Leonard performed on the hit ABC show Dancing with the Stars (season 12), competing against Kirstie Alley, Ralph Macchio, Wendy Williams and Hines Ward, among several other celebrities.
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