Sugar Ray Leonard (Sugar) is a 68-year-old retired American professional boxer. He is a four-weightclass world champion with 10 world-title wins. In a career spanning 20 years and 24 days, Leonard amassed a record of 36-3-1, which includes 25 wins via KO, 8 of which were in world-title fights. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) in 1997.
Sugar Ray Leonard was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S. on May 17, 1956. He made his professional debut at the age of 20 years on February 5, 1977 against Luis Vega. Leonard defeated Vega via 6-round unanimous decision, making a successful beginning of his pro career.
Leonard became a world champion fight at the age of 23 after 25 professional fights. He challenged Wilfred Benítez for the WBC and The Ring welterweight titles and stopped the champion in the final round of the 15-round fight, winning his first world titles.
He then went on to successfully conquer the super-welterweight (WBA, The Ring), middleweight (WBC, The Ring), and super-middleweight (WBC) divisions as well to become a four-division world champion — and undisputed at welterweight.
Leonard's last fight was a 5th-round TKO loss to Héctor Camacho at age 40, on March 1, 1997.
Some of Sugar Ray Leonard's best fights have been against Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Roberto Durán (HOFer), Thomas Hearns (HOFer), Donny Lalonde, Wilfred Benítez (HOFer), Dave Boy Green, and Marcos Geraldo. For a complete list of Leonard's best fights and their details, refer to "Best fights of Sugar Ray Leonard".
Leonard has 3 losses on his record. For details about these losses refer to "Sugar Ray Leonard Losses".
# | Date | Age | Opponent | Res | Via |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
40 | Mar 01, 1997 | 40 | ![]() | loss | TKO 5 |
39 | Feb 09, 1991 | 34 | ![]() | loss | UD 12 |
38 | Dec 07, 1989 | 33 | ![]() | win | UD 12 |
37 | Jun 12, 1989 | 33 | ![]() | draw | SD 12 |
36 | Nov 07, 1988 | 32 | ![]() | win | TKO 9 |
35 | Apr 06, 1987 | 30 | ![]() | win | SD 12 |
34 | May 11, 1984 | 27 | ![]() | win | TKO 9 |
33 | Feb 15, 1982 | 25 | ![]() | win | TKO 3 |
32 | Sep 16, 1981 | 25 | ![]() | win | TKO 14 |
31 | Jun 25, 1981 | 25 | ![]() | win | TKO 9 |
30 | Mar 28, 1981 | 24 | ![]() | win | TKO 10 |
29 | Nov 25, 1980 | 24 | ![]() | win | TKO 8 |
28 | Jun 20, 1980 | 24 | ![]() | loss | UD 15 |
27 | Mar 31, 1980 | 23 | ![]() | win | KO 4 |
26 | Nov 30, 1979 | 23 | ![]() | win | TKO 15 |
25 | Sep 28, 1979 | 23 | ![]() | win | KO 1 |
24 | Aug 12, 1979 | 23 | ![]() | win | TKO 4 |
23 | Jun 24, 1979 | 23 | ![]() | win | RTD 4 |
22 | May 20, 1979 | 23 | ![]() | win | UD 10 |
21 | Apr 21, 1979 | 22 | ![]() | win | UD 10 |
20 | Mar 24, 1979 | 22 | ![]() | win | TKO 1 |
19 | Feb 11, 1979 | 22 | ![]() | win | TKO 8 |
18 | Jan 11, 1979 | 22 | ![]() | win | TKO 8 |
17 | Dec 09, 1978 | 22 | ![]() | win | RTD 6 |
16 | Nov 03, 1978 | 22 | ![]() | win | UD 10 |
15 | Oct 06, 1978 | 22 | ![]() | win | UD 10 |
14 | Sep 09, 1978 | 22 | ![]() | win | TKO 10 |
13 | Jul 18, 1978 | 22 | ![]() | win | UD 10 |
12 | Jun 03, 1978 | 22 | ![]() | win | UD 10 |
11 | May 13, 1978 | 21 | ![]() | win | TKO 8 |
10 | Apr 13, 1978 | 21 | ![]() | win | RTD 3 |
9 | Mar 19, 1978 | 21 | ![]() | win | KO 1 |
8 | Mar 01, 1978 | 21 | ![]() | win | TKO 7 |
7 | Feb 04, 1978 | 21 | ![]() | win | UD 8 |
6 | Dec 17, 1977 | 21 | ![]() | win | KO 2 |
5 | Nov 05, 1977 | 21 | ![]() | win | KO 6 |
4 | Sep 24, 1977 | 21 | ![]() | win | KO 5 |
3 | Jun 10, 1977 | 21 | ![]() | win | TKO 3 |
2 | May 14, 1977 | 20 | ![]() | win | UD 6 |
1 | Feb 05, 1977 | 20 | ![]() | win | UD 6 |