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Sugar Ray Leonard's private gym fights
Posted: 21 Apr 2006, 10:27
by Venceremos
Hello,
I've heard that Leonard made some private gym fights in their retirement, in late-1986 and early-1987, prior his classic against Marvin Hagler. Have anyone more information about it?
Posted: 21 Apr 2006, 10:52
by bigzab
To quote KOJOE from December 2005:
"Leonard had a very long training camp for the Hagler fight it came to light after the fight.
After the Hagler fight it was also revealed that Leonard had had a number of full 12 round fights behind closed doors. These were officially sparring sessions, but with a few major differences. There were no headgaurds used, small gloves and the sparring partners were told to try there best to win over the full 12 rounds. They were basically REAL fights.
Two of the sparring were Quincy Taylor and Anthony Fletcher (who was a southpaw). I heard thet Taylor floored leonard during one of these 'fights'."