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Back in 1997, Ray Leonard returned to the ring after a six-year lay-off to fight Hector Camacho. What happened was he got KTFO, and Macho ended up getting the pay day against Oscar at welterweight a few months later.

Was Sugar Ray trying to set up a Superfight with the Golden Boy? If not, why come back after all those years?

It wouldn't have been a superfight in 1997.

Sugar Ray Leonard took it upon himself to offer advice to De La Hoya around this time and appeared with him in the ring after one of his wins to hold his hands up in victory.

Leonard did say just before his fight with camacho in an interview with KO magazine that he had been close to coming back around 93-94 to fight Pernell Whittaker.

I think in his own mind Ray saw beating Camacho as a stepping stone to fighting Whittaker.

Of course Ray looked less than even a shell of his former self and Whittaker went on to fight Oscar.

I have never seen a fighter deteriote so much as Ray against Camacho. He was 40 but he just didnt seem even 1% the ray we saw against Duran in 89 even