When Ray Leonard hurt his opponent, he would unleash a vicious flurry of punches and very few could survive his onslaught. A most dangerous entertainer.
@dp100 I will always love Mike Tyson. As for Roy Jones JR. I never saw him box when he was in his prime. I gave up watching boxing when Tyson bit off Holyfields ear. I slowly came back watching Dela Hoya fights. Now PAC MAN fights. Sugar Ray Leonard was the first boxer I ever saw fight. I saw ALI in his last years and Larry Holmes. Julio Caesar Chavez was pretty bad a22 too
This kind of fight is hard to come by these days. No boxer wishes to go through punishment like these old ones did. They were all legends#SugarRay&FloydMayweather.
Man the era that Leonard fought there was so much talent in boxing. Boxing back then was at its height. I lived in Vegas at the time and had a friend that was able to get me press credentials, those were the days, lol. Saw Leonard-Hearns 1, Hagler-Hearns, Leonard-Hagler (in that fight there was so much electric energy, you could feel it pulse throughout your body...hard to explain) Aaron Pryor, Duran, Ali-Holmes which was pitiful, Tyson-Bone Crusher Smith on and on and didn’t have to pay a dime for the ring apron view. Even got my picture in Sports Illustrated by accident because the Sports Illustrated guy was shooting pictures directly across from me, lol. Back then the best were chewing at the bit to fight the best. None of the nonsense you see today..Anyway that came to mind when I saw this video of Leonard.....
Now you see why Floyd isn't great ,he wouldn't have even have broken the top ten in the 80s...lol Imagine that delicate little boy fighting Hearns or even Duran...lol
@@jameswalsh3976 this is beyond ignorant. Just because dad lost to a legend Floyd wouldn't last? Lol Jr is one of if not the best defensive boxer the sport has ever seen lmao. You can count the amount of times he's been knocked down on one hand and he has never really been in threat of losing a match and has never even really been tired lol. Jr's boxing IQ is on an insane level. He literally learns as he fights and improved as the fight went on. Sr. Corrected all the mistakes he made as a boxer and passed on what he learned to Floyd and the rest is history and even legendary. Casual comment. I'm not even a huge Floyd fan but I'm a huge boxing fan. And we won't see another boxer like Floyd for many many many years. There is a lot of what ifs and coulda woulda talk but saying Floyd Jr wouldn't survive back in the day is flat ignorant. Don't forget roids were a thing back then too brah. Testing wasn't nearly as rigorous and there are far more banned substances now than back then. It's all relevant when having this conversation. Jr is not a fighter. He is a boxer. And that is why he won all of his boxing matches pretty much unanimously. Not a knockout artist by any means but he didn't need to be. And he has a fair share of knockouts in that respect as well.
@@jameswalsh3976 riveting argument LMAO casual. Sorry brah. That's like saying NFL teams of today couldn't beat teams of the past. Or old UFC fighters are better than current. Ignorant. Sports have evolved and so have the athletes in general. Athletes today are so far beyond what they were back then it's crazy. I love the old timers as much as the next. But don't be stupid. This is a tired argument and feel good memories of old fighters does not equate to facts. There you learned something today. Your welcome have a good day.
Exactly, Sugar fought some of the best fighters in the history of the sport ..especially the best in his era..not only once but two - three times. Everytime Ray retired the public would rant him to come back for one more fight. Can you say the same for Floyd..? You really going to compare Floyd's c-b level opponents to Ray's legendary opponents.
@@iconicyard1311 Ha! Touche! He constantly beat Sugar to the punch, made Sugar miss and had the better jab. Sometimes you can do everything right and still lose. Exhibit A.
according to your logic, george foreman should have destroyed ali, after all he destroyed frazier, the man who beat ali. The fact is styles make fights.
Babafad, Im a Mayweather fan too in some ways. I also get amazed watching him. In fact, before Pac beat Barrera and rose to stardom, I used to be a Mayweather fan. There's a video out there which explains why Pac refuses blood testing 2 days before the fight (which is likely to happen if RANDOM thing continues). And you cant help thinking that PBF is using this tactic. People will not forget what he did (weight cheat) in Marquez fight. It could be cowardice or maybe too protective of his "0".
Yeah he did pretty good and his fight game was tight but Ray Leonard was in a class by himself he was very fast and his combo's was very fast and hard,to hard for dudes that wasn't use to getting hit that many times lol 😆 I loved him then and I love him more now because he's a Giant of a roll model for the kids that had the chance to view his fights growing up in the 70s 80s and 90s but just like any great fighter the heart takes over youth and his fans believed that he would be the man until the end of time but his run came to an end because of his youth but we got to give him his props he's a true champion in my eyes until I die Ray Leonard I love you to my grave
I love speculating All Time Greats vs Current P4P list, but it is just that... Speculation.. Yes Leonard would defeat every top 10 lightweight to middle weight we have to offer in this generation of boxing. His defensive savy, speed and killer insticts trump Pacman, Mayweather and the down the list... One ot the great athletes who got me into the fight game during the '80s.
Mayweather owes ALOT of credit to his dad when it comes to boxing....as far as style goes, Mayweather Jr. style is more like his dads than his trainer Roger's...the only difference is that money may is better at that same style than his dad ever was
it's amazing just how similar jr is to sr. i realize he did train him, so it makes sense, but it's still amazing. and god damn did SR have a left hook. that shit is so fast.
That left hook changed the entire course of Leonard vs Hearns 1 in the 6th round. SRL for a welterweight was a very hard puncher as well as having terrific hand speed. A more experienced SRL would have finished off Floyd Sr. in 5 rounds.
I heard Leonard say that as ordinary Ray Leonard he couldn't do it, but as Ray Leonard Fighter he felt unbeatable. Something just clicked on the way to the ring. It only didn't happen a couple of times and he said, "People were saying 'Go champ', and 'You're going to win', and he said I knew I absolutely wouldn't.
mayweather fought a lot of top contender throughout his career, which is more than what most other boxers do. him and pacquiao are the top 2 of this generation and neither can be denied their legacy.
Scholars have studied the entire fight in slow-mo and counted the punches landed and Ali landed 3 to 1 on Frazier in their first fight. Frazier was hospitalised for 3 weeks afterwards while Ali went to his 'victory' party. In short, Frazier won a bum decision.
Im a Pac fan, but I must agree with you. Your observation makes sense. It's acceptable that Jr is in some ways different from the Sr. Yeah, Pac may or will have a tough fight against PBF. But we will see. Hopefully the fight will happen.
... well.... everything else offensively. I honestly don't think any fanboy should discount Floyd Jr in any fantasy match-up conversation between Floyd Jr and Leonard. I think that'd just be foolish to do that while you're a true fan of boxing. Here for the first 2 rounds we see a sharp Floyd Sr whose doing better than Sugar. Can you imagine a more consistent and sharper and faster and much more talented Jr fighting Sugar throughout the whole fight like that? I gotta be real... Floyd could win.
Maybe, but you gotta remember the sugar Ray leaonard that fought Snr wasn't anything like the finished article he was going to be. He'd only fought 13 pro fights at that point, and had only had his 1st pro fight 18 months earlier. It would be another 13 fights before he would get a shot at the world title.
watch zab and floyd again youll see floyd didnt have 2 figure zab out after the 6th round cuz zab was tired and floyd couldve hit him wit anything and zab is faster then floyd you can see that if zab was in shape to go 12 hard rounds he wud have knocked floyd out
Floyd walked through multiple divisions claiming multiple titles from champs. That's not cherry picked. Lol. He beat champs. And has never really been in threat of losing a fight. Casual.
these two were hell of boxers... sugar ray never fell in anybody's game, he always had his mind set on the fight and calmed down and mayweather makes his son just live in his shadow.
I missed this fight. I used to follow Sugar Rays career when the fights wer broadcast free on TV. I must have watch a good 20 fights. He won every fight and was getting closer to fighting for the championship with each fight. Then they switched to PayTV. And I didn’t have Cable so I couldn’t follow it anymore. I think that was why Boxing lost its Audience. Then I could only watch clips after the fights were over. That ended it for me! But I knew Sugar Ray was going to be the Champ! He had the foot and hand speed of Ali and great footwork too! In fact, he boxed like Ali. Same style! Great Fighter! He would even wind up his hand backwards and mock the other fighter. He was entertaining like Ali!
including the record-setting 1.4 million buys in the Felix Trinidad fight of Sept. 1999; the Sept. 2004 encounter with Bernard Hopkins that produced one million buys; the Sept. 2003 rematch with Shane Mosley, which generated 950,000 buys; the Sept. 2002 showdown with Fernando Vargas, which registered 935,000 buys; and the May 6 encounter with Mayorga that produced 875,000 buys .
floyd jrs dad here stands in real well with the great ray leonard.his trainer henry grooms [i met him]is a heck of a trainer.i mean floyd sr may be excentric and loud,but i take my hat off to a fighter who stands in like he does on this clip.shrewd fast dude indeed.
In his prime sugar Ray Leonard very few could live with him light years a head he had a chin of iron he's was faster in hand and foot speed than Ali if Leonard had his era today there be no stoping him as simple as that
and floyd has come back very quickly from it also. i would love to see this fight though wouldn't you? it would be a classic fight against two legends in the sport of boxing. the two best of their eras...we can disagree, but i would love to see this fight. how about sugar vs mosley and floyd vs duran also. what you think about those fights? i would love to se them also...
Mayweather was 146 lbs?? Not in 1978 😁 Unless he’s 6 feet tall they ain’t no way he was 146 in this fight. Where’s it at? He was a lot better than Howard gave him credit for . What a mouth on that man, Cosell. Enjoyed the upload.
WOW. I totally think the commentators, the crowd, and a lot of you are pretty biased in watching this vid. Floyd here is performing masterfully and has almost perfect defense and is actually landing more than Sugar could (well at least in just these 2 rounds so far). I don't know what everyone else is smoking except for the last part of the vid where Sugar did catch him with a solid right. Floyd was truly a genius but his son's even sharper and MUCH deadlier with his right hand counters and...
Fighters of that era was not afraid to fight anybody, they were more tougher than today's fighters, they never backed down from a fight. Fighters today just talk a lot of shit.
nah a fight of that magnitude Floyd Mayweather jr would have had to sign for but he would have train a couple of years for it to defeat sugar Ray by a decision it about five for pac-man👍😁
I seriously doubt if Pacquiao would beat Sugar Ray in his prime. But one welterweight who would destroy Pacquiao is Thomas Hitman Hearns. His incredible height and reach and bulldozing power would be suited to Pacquiao
beautiful matchup. Floyd Mayweather style of course so closly resembles his son and Sugar Ray style resembles Muhammad Ali. its kinda like watching Ali and Pretty Boy going at it.
He still ain't better than the son of Floyd Mayweather. He really mastered 👏 the art of boxing. Against Pacquiao, Canelo, Cotto , Oscar, Shane Mosley, Diego Corrales, Arturo Gatti, Sharmba Mitchell, Carlos Baldomir, Cotto blah blah 😆nobody has beat more elite fighters.
atl2maryland, you're right on. Mayweather is the definition of a boxer, plain and simple. Just watch how he keeps his chen tucked behind his left shoulder, left hand across his chest, and his right hand over his right cheek. Beautiful technique. Always ready to counter punch. He makes you miss, and makes you pay for it. look and learn people.
When Ray Leonard hurt his opponent, he would unleash a vicious flurry of punches and very few could survive his onslaught. A most dangerous entertainer.
Yep, finesse, speed & accuracy. Deadly tools he possessed
Sugar Ray Leonard vs Floyd Mayweather Jr, what a fight that would've been!
Never saw this fight until now, phenomenal to see 🤝🏽
@dp100 I will always love Mike Tyson. As for Roy Jones JR. I never saw him box when he was in his prime. I gave up watching boxing when Tyson bit off Holyfields ear. I slowly came back watching Dela Hoya fights. Now PAC MAN fights. Sugar Ray Leonard was the first boxer I ever saw fight. I saw ALI in his last years and Larry Holmes. Julio Caesar Chavez was pretty bad a22 too
That was a comprehensive battering from legendary Sugar Ray. Yet Mayweather Snr has never accepted he was beaten by Sugar Ray.
Cause he wasn't
One of the greatest benefits Floyd Jr. has is the fact that his dad has actual ring knowledge like this, going against a great like Sugar Ray Leonard.
ME AS WELL BUT HOE #2 i'm the best
he was schooling srl for most of this fight.
@@johnmcook1 yeah Right 😕 I doubt that's what happened!
Xd
@@johnmcook1 lmao
lol, I was drinkin. I watched it again from the beginning and yeah def real time. Love boxin and Ray is one of my hearos as a kid.
Hearos? What the fuck is a hearo?
This kind of fight is hard to come by these days. No boxer wishes to go through punishment like these old ones did. They were all legends#SugarRay&FloydMayweather.
Sugar Ray Leonard really have fast hand speed on punching.. wish i could have those..
Ray Leonard was a beast, he fought all the best as well.
damn mayweather hung in there he had crazy skills but leonard is ....wow
Man the era that Leonard fought there was so much talent in boxing. Boxing back then was at its height. I lived in Vegas at the time and had a friend that was able to get me press credentials, those were the days, lol. Saw Leonard-Hearns 1, Hagler-Hearns, Leonard-Hagler (in that fight there was so much electric energy, you could feel it pulse throughout your body...hard to explain) Aaron Pryor, Duran, Ali-Holmes which was pitiful, Tyson-Bone Crusher Smith on and on and didn’t have to pay a dime for the ring apron view. Even got my picture in Sports Illustrated by accident because the Sports Illustrated guy was shooting pictures directly across from me, lol. Back then the best were chewing at the bit to fight the best. None of the nonsense you see today..Anyway that came to mind when I saw this video of Leonard.....
No a perfect record doesn't matter, it's who you beat that matters. Shallow aesthetically oriented generation.
Wtf were you even talking about? You should have deleted this comment 9 years ago.
@@JonathanDiggsDuke 😂😂😂😂
Sugar learned how to tighten up that right hand after this fight. That famous Mayweather counter right.
"Knocker out'ter" Boy that Howard Cosell was something else with words. There will never be one to come close.
A knocker-outer is a person who knocks out another person, who is called the knocker-outee. These are, of course, technical terms.
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I totally agree, both fighters were magnificent.
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Although he didn't have an illustrious career, you can see where little Floyd gets his natural skill from.
mayweather Sr. raised mayweather Jr. to be a boxer and taught him most of his skills, style, training techniques and mental toughness.
Now you see why Floyd isn't great ,he wouldn't have even have broken the top ten in the 80s...lol Imagine that delicate little boy fighting Hearns or even Duran...lol
@@jameswalsh3976 this is beyond ignorant. Just because dad lost to a legend Floyd wouldn't last? Lol Jr is one of if not the best defensive boxer the sport has ever seen lmao. You can count the amount of times he's been knocked down on one hand and he has never really been in threat of losing a match and has never even really been tired lol. Jr's boxing IQ is on an insane level. He literally learns as he fights and improved as the fight went on. Sr. Corrected all the mistakes he made as a boxer and passed on what he learned to Floyd and the rest is history and even legendary. Casual comment. I'm not even a huge Floyd fan but I'm a huge boxing fan. And we won't see another boxer like Floyd for many many many years. There is a lot of what ifs and coulda woulda talk but saying Floyd Jr wouldn't survive back in the day is flat ignorant. Don't forget roids were a thing back then too brah. Testing wasn't nearly as rigorous and there are far more banned substances now than back then. It's all relevant when having this conversation. Jr is not a fighter. He is a boxer. And that is why he won all of his boxing matches pretty much unanimously. Not a knockout artist by any means but he didn't need to be. And he has a fair share of knockouts in that respect as well.
@@alanbarnett3394 He would have been killed.
@@jameswalsh3976 riveting argument LMAO casual. Sorry brah. That's like saying NFL teams of today couldn't beat teams of the past. Or old UFC fighters are better than current. Ignorant. Sports have evolved and so have the athletes in general. Athletes today are so far beyond what they were back then it's crazy. I love the old timers as much as the next. But don't be stupid. This is a tired argument and feel good memories of old fighters does not equate to facts. There you learned something today. Your welcome have a good day.
@@alanbarnett3394 Floyd was a cherry picking fighter. He avoided fighters in their prime, including Pacquiao.
dude I didnt know mayweathers dad was that good? I knew he was pro, but I didnt think he fought the greats?? pretty bad ass.
Exactly, Sugar fought some of the best fighters in the history of the sport ..especially the best in his era..not only once but two - three times. Everytime Ray retired the public would rant him to come back for one more fight. Can you say the same for Floyd..?
You really going to compare Floyd's c-b level opponents to Ray's legendary opponents.
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SUGAR RAY LEONARD WAS A GREAT FIGHTER AND HOWARD COSELL WAS AHEAD OF HIS TIME,WE NEED SPORTSCASTERS LIKE THAT THESE DAYS.
Yeah
I see where Jr got that lightning fast left jab
He actually did a great job on Sugar.
yeah he was great. i like that part of the fight where he got knocked out.
@@iconicyard1311 Ha! Touche! He constantly beat Sugar to the punch, made Sugar miss and had the better jab. Sometimes you can do everything right and still lose. Exhibit A.
according to your logic, george foreman should have destroyed ali, after all he destroyed frazier, the man who beat ali.
The fact is styles make fights.
mayweather sr was 15-1 when he met in the ring with him..pretty impressive
Ray Sugar Leonard, the greatest. An amazing boxer. Simply the best.
Its Howard Cosell. He called all the Ali fights and a ton of others back in his day. He is considered the greatest boxing commentator in history
In America that is...
I remember watching this fight on tv 📺
Babafad, Im a Mayweather fan too in some ways. I also get amazed watching him. In fact, before Pac beat Barrera and rose to stardom, I used to be a Mayweather fan. There's a video out there which explains why Pac refuses blood testing 2 days before the fight (which is likely to happen if RANDOM thing continues). And you cant help thinking that PBF is using this tactic. People will not forget what he did (weight cheat) in Marquez fight. It could be cowardice or maybe too protective of his "0".
The Mayweathers were good. No doubt about it but guys like Chavez, Pacquiao, and Leonard were great
Great point. I agree with every word. Sugar's power, tanacity and "deep water" experience would be the difference.
Floyd Sr was pretty good. I'd like to see more
Yeah he did pretty good and his fight game was tight but Ray Leonard was in a class by himself he was very fast and his combo's was very fast and hard,to hard for dudes that wasn't use to getting hit that many times lol 😆 I loved him then and I love him more now because he's a Giant of a roll model for the kids that had the chance to view his fights growing up in the 70s 80s and 90s but just like any great fighter the heart takes over youth and his fans believed that he would be the man until the end of time but his run came to an end because of his youth but we got to give him his props he's a true champion in my eyes until I die Ray Leonard I love you to my grave
Yes, Floyd has always fought great fighters.
I love speculating All Time Greats vs Current P4P list, but it is just that... Speculation.. Yes Leonard would defeat every top 10 lightweight to middle weight we have to offer in this generation of boxing. His defensive savy, speed and killer insticts trump Pacman, Mayweather and the down the list... One ot the great athletes who got me into the fight game during the '80s.
Mayweather owes ALOT of credit to his dad when it comes to boxing....as far as style goes, Mayweather Jr. style is more like his dads than his trainer Roger's...the only difference is that money may is better at that same style than his dad ever was
He more aggressive
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My fav boxer of all time personally.
wow, what a first round for Floyd senior, I am impress!!
I don't see this happening at all. Manny is so hard to hit. He is exceptionally quick. Quicker than any fighter in the history of all boxing.
it's amazing just how similar jr is to sr. i realize he did train him, so it makes sense, but it's still amazing. and god damn did SR have a left hook. that shit is so fast.
Jab not hook
He's got left hook the Michigan check hook it's so you can't see it.
That left hook changed the entire course of Leonard vs Hearns 1 in the 6th round. SRL for a welterweight was a very hard puncher as well as having terrific hand speed. A more experienced SRL would have finished off Floyd Sr. in 5 rounds.
I heard Leonard say that as ordinary Ray Leonard he couldn't do it, but as Ray Leonard Fighter he felt unbeatable. Something just clicked on the way to the ring. It only didn't happen a couple of times and he said, "People were saying 'Go champ', and 'You're going to win', and he said I knew I absolutely wouldn't.
mayweather fought a lot of top contender throughout his career, which is more than what most other boxers do. him and pacquiao are the top 2 of this generation and neither can be denied their legacy.
I know it was after he became highly marketable but Sugar dodged "The Marvelous One"....
Floyd looks very sharp early on.
Too bad Jr. doesn't fight like Sr. did.
Jr. acts like he's playing hide and seek.
Quote” He thinks Leonard has the makings of a champion”Unquote,seems think Dundee knew what the hell he was talking about!
Scholars have studied the entire fight in slow-mo and counted the punches landed and Ali landed 3 to 1 on Frazier in their first fight. Frazier was hospitalised for 3 weeks afterwards while Ali went to his 'victory' party. In short, Frazier won a bum decision.
Old floyd looks exactly the same then as he does now
Im a Pac fan, but I must agree with you. Your observation makes sense. It's acceptable that Jr is in some ways different from the Sr. Yeah, Pac may or will have a tough fight against PBF. But we will see. Hopefully the fight will happen.
... well.... everything else offensively. I honestly don't think any fanboy should discount Floyd Jr in any fantasy match-up conversation between Floyd Jr and Leonard. I think that'd just be foolish to do that while you're a true fan of boxing. Here for the first 2 rounds we see a sharp Floyd Sr whose doing better than Sugar. Can you imagine a more consistent and sharper and faster and much more talented Jr fighting Sugar throughout the whole fight like that? I gotta be real... Floyd could win.
Maybe, but you gotta remember the sugar Ray leaonard that fought Snr wasn't anything like the finished article he was going to be. He'd only fought 13 pro fights at that point, and had only had his 1st pro fight 18 months earlier. It would be another 13 fights before he would get a shot at the world title.
A Mayweather moving forward, will wonders never cease!!!
watch zab and floyd again youll see floyd didnt have 2 figure zab out after the 6th round cuz zab was tired and floyd couldve hit him wit anything and zab is faster then floyd you can see that if zab was in shape to go 12 hard rounds he wud have knocked floyd out
Great video both boxing ledgends.
floyd sr actually fought and runed to hit his opponents floyd jr runs away from his cherry picked opponents.
Floyd walked through multiple divisions claiming multiple titles from champs. That's not cherry picked. Lol. He beat champs. And has never really been in threat of losing a fight. Casual.
Manny Pacquiao and Sugar Ray Leonard..
2 of the best boxers in history period
POUND for POUND
these two were hell of boxers... sugar ray never fell in anybody's game, he always had his mind set on the fight and calmed down and mayweather makes his son just live in his shadow.
Except the hands of stone.
Wow! One could see Leonard get mad when Mayweather hit him low and then start banging Mayweather with bad intentions late in round 2.
Sugar ray leonard was a beast in them days.I didn't know mayweather's father fought him back then.
dang now i know why floyd jr is so good
brillant match up class guys!!
FLOYD SR. LOOKS BETTER THAN SUGARAY. AT LEAST THE FIRST RDS.
Jerry Jimenez : He got suckered. It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.
First round was a feeling out round. Sugar dominated round two. Floyd looked better? No
I missed this fight. I used to follow Sugar Rays career when the fights wer broadcast free on TV. I must have watch a good 20 fights. He won every fight and was getting closer to fighting for the championship with each fight. Then they switched to PayTV. And I didn’t have Cable so I couldn’t follow it anymore. I think that was why Boxing lost its Audience. Then I could only watch clips after the fights were over. That ended it for me!
But I knew Sugar Ray was going to be the Champ! He had the foot and hand speed of Ali and great footwork too! In fact, he boxed like Ali. Same style! Great Fighter! He would even wind up his hand backwards and mock the other fighter. He was entertaining like Ali!
Floyd Mayweather hasn't changed one bit, still looks old.
He has only fought two fighters that could ever be classified as "great" and they were both past their prime (Mosley, De La Hoya)
Right, now name the other greats that existed during his era.
Look how exactly same snr and Jr styles are
Makes perfect sense. Sr had a heavy hand in training Jr. before his uncle took the reigns for a good portion of Jr's career.
All that's saying is if Sr was fighting in these days he would be undefeated and if Jr was fighting back then he wouldn't be undefeated
Mayweathers son floyd jr is going down as the best ever and what a fighter he was unbelievable record beat the best easy 🥊
i like the old fashioned style mayweather has
including the record-setting 1.4 million buys in the Felix Trinidad fight of Sept. 1999; the Sept. 2004 encounter with Bernard Hopkins that produced one million buys; the Sept. 2003 rematch with Shane Mosley, which generated 950,000 buys; the Sept. 2002 showdown with Fernando Vargas, which registered 935,000 buys; and the May 6 encounter with Mayorga that produced 875,000 buys .
Damn Floyd senior has some speed and forward aggresion back in his day. He really brings the fight to his opponants unlike Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Go back and watch Floyd vs Gatti.
floyd jrs dad here stands in real well with the great ray leonard.his trainer henry grooms [i met him]is a heck of a trainer.i mean floyd sr may be excentric and loud,but i take my hat off to a fighter who stands in like he does on this clip.shrewd fast dude indeed.
Sugar Ray's a legend.
Thats great boxing!!
Hearns/Duran is on here, I think it was around 84'-85'
Damn Floyd Jr looks just like his pops in his prime.
In his prime sugar Ray Leonard very few could live with him light years a head he had a chin of iron he's was faster in hand and foot speed than Ali if Leonard had his era today there be no stoping him as simple as that
and floyd has come back very quickly from it also. i would love to see this fight though wouldn't you? it would be a classic fight against two legends in the sport of boxing. the two best of their eras...we can disagree, but i would love to see this fight. how about sugar vs mosley and floyd vs duran also. what you think about those fights? i would love to se them also...
Maryland native! hellz yea!
agreed, I knew mayweather sr was good, but never knew he faught the champs.
dayum floyd sr is preety quick now we all know where floyd gets his quickness from
@Valerie Texan I sure have
@Valerie Texan Where have you been? You are not a true boxing fan.
Needed more legs back then.Thats what he was lacking
@Valerie Texan lol where u been
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Muy buenos los dos grandes figuras del boxeo
Wow !!! Mayweather is actually fighting instead of running and jumping around the ring and bagging millions of dollars !! 😆😆😆😆😆
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 savage! 😁
This is his dad. Money Mayweather was born right before this fight
that was a sick fight! Snr got skills!
Floy Mayweather Jr. tampoco terminaba la pelea con el Sugar Ray de aquellos tiempos. Fue el mejor durante su apogeo.
Mayweather was 146 lbs?? Not in 1978 😁
Unless he’s 6 feet tall they ain’t no way he was 146 in this fight. Where’s it at? He was a lot better than Howard gave him credit for . What a mouth on that man, Cosell.
Enjoyed the upload.
WOW. I totally think the commentators, the crowd, and a lot of you are pretty biased in watching this vid. Floyd here is performing masterfully and has almost perfect defense and is actually landing more than Sugar could (well at least in just these 2 rounds so far). I don't know what everyone else is smoking except for the last part of the vid where Sugar did catch him with a solid right.
Floyd was truly a genius but his son's even sharper and MUCH deadlier with his right hand counters and...
its funny how short the shorts were back then
i'd go with roy, best lead right of all time!
Fighters of that era was not afraid to fight anybody, they were more tougher than today's fighters, they never backed down from a fight. Fighters today just talk a lot of shit.
what about Leonard's "comb the hair" move! lol
Ĺeonard is without question the best boxer ever
Floyd jr would have ducked Leonard
LOL
bourne 1988
nah a fight of that magnitude Floyd Mayweather jr would have had to sign for but he would have train a couple of years for it to defeat sugar Ray by a decision it about five for pac-man👍😁
@dano that's real talk, sr was a real one!
Bullshit. T.B.E. would of schooled Leonard.
I saw this fight, not back then but a few months ago
I seriously doubt if Pacquiao would beat Sugar Ray in his prime. But one welterweight who would destroy Pacquiao is Thomas Hitman Hearns. His incredible height and reach and bulldozing power would be suited to Pacquiao
Surgar Ray, in th ebest fight in history, He was the world best athlete at that time. World Champion in 3 weight divisions
beautiful matchup. Floyd Mayweather style of course so closly resembles his son and Sugar Ray style resembles Muhammad Ali. its kinda like watching Ali and Pretty Boy going at it.
man, they aren't this fast. This is a little bit in fast forward right? Awesome vid and I loved seeing it.
Ray Leonard was lightning quick.
He still ain't better than the son of Floyd Mayweather. He really mastered 👏 the art of boxing. Against Pacquiao, Canelo, Cotto , Oscar, Shane Mosley, Diego Corrales, Arturo Gatti, Sharmba Mitchell, Carlos Baldomir, Cotto blah blah 😆nobody has beat more elite fighters.
atl2maryland, you're right on. Mayweather is the definition of a boxer, plain and simple. Just watch how he keeps his chen tucked behind his left shoulder, left hand across his chest, and his right hand over his right cheek. Beautiful technique. Always ready to counter punch. He makes you miss, and makes you pay for it. look and learn people.
How bout that upset tho. Missouri 3 over Notre Dame 0!!
Yeah I Peeped that! I'm from ST Louis and immediately cheered!
God bless all just to step in the ring you become a champion in your own right and both of these men are just that
floyd could hold his own, no doubt!!