Leonard won the National Golden Gloves and National AAU Light Welterweight Championships in 1974. In Poland, Kazimierz Szczerba was given a decision victory over Leonard, even though he was dominated in the first two rounds and dropped three times in the third. He lost a disputed decision to Anatoli Kamnev in Moscow, after which, Kamnev gave the winner's trophy to Leonard.
Leonard suffered his last two losses as an amateur in 1974. The following year, Leonard won the National Golden Gloves and National AAU Lightweight Championships. In 1973, Leonard won the National Golden Gloves Lightweight Championship, but lost to Randy Shields in the lightweight final of the National AAU Tournament. However, given his style and first name, it was probably only a matter of time before people started calling him Sugar Ray, after the man many consider to be the best boxer of all time, Sugar Ray Robinson.
Sarge Johnson, assistant coach of the US Olympic Boxing Team, said to Dave Jacobs, "That kid you got is sweet as sugar". : 1 He made it to the lightweight semifinals, losing a disputed decision to Greg Whaley, who took such a beating that he wasn't allowed to continue in the trials and never boxed again. The rules stated that a boxer had to be seventeen to box in international competition, so Leonard, only sixteen, lied about his age. Later that year, he boxed in the Eastern Olympic Trials. In 1972, Leonard boxed in the featherweight quarterfinals of the National AAU Tournament, losing by decision to Jerome Artis. Roger won some trophies and showed them off in front of Ray, goading him to start boxing. Dave Jacobs, a former boxer, and Janks Morton volunteered as boxing coaches. Roger helped start the boxing program, urging the center's director, Ollie Dunlap, to form a team. His older brother, Roger, started boxing first. Leonard started boxing at the Palmer Park Recreation Center in 1969. I never had to go to school once because of him." Amateur career We never could tell what he was thinking. His mother said: "He never did talk too much. He stayed home a lot, reading comic books and playing with his dog. Leonard was a shy child, and aside from the time he nearly drowned in a creek during a flood in Seat Pleasant, Maryland, his childhood was uneventful. His father worked as a supermarket night manager and his mother was a nurse. The family moved to Washington, D.C., when he was three, and they settled permanently in Palmer Park, Maryland when he was ten. He was named after Ray Charles, his mother's favorite singer. Leonard, the fifth of seven children of Cicero and Getha Leonard, was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. In 2002, Leonard was voted by The Ring as the ninth greatest fighter of the last 80 years In 2016, he was voted by The Ring to be the greatest living fighter and BoxRec ranks him as the 23rd greatest boxer of all time, pound for pound.
The Ring magazine named him Fighter of the Year in 19, while the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) named him Fighter of the Year in 1976, 1979, and 1981.
Leonard was also the first boxer to earn more than $100 million in purses, and was named "Boxer of the Decade" in the 1980s. "The Fabulous Four" created a wave of popularity in the lower weight classes that kept boxing relevant in the post- Muhammad Ali era, during which Leonard defeated future fellow International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees Hearns, Durán, Hagler, and Wilfred Benítez. Leonard was part of "The Four Kings", a group of boxers who all fought each other throughout the 1980s, consisting of Leonard, Roberto Durán, Thomas Hearns, and Marvin Hagler. Often regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time, he competed between 19, winning world titles in five weight divisions the lineal championship in three weight divisions as well as the undisputed welterweight title.
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Ray Charles Leonard (born May 17, 1956), best known as " Sugar" Ray Leonard, is an American former professional boxer, motivational speaker, and occasional actor.
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