When Unknown Ray Leonard Challenged Mayweather

Honest question: super ray L vs Floyd MW?? Who is taking it

Floyd Sr. had no quit in him it seemed. Respect.

That fight would have been stopped about 7 rounds earlier if it took place today. Mayweather was one tough dude - took a serious pounding here but kept coming back for more.

Ngl when floyd jr said. "Everything you taught me from day 1...ill always remember"🥺....i shed a tear . Especially knowing hes going thru dementia now 🥺

R.I.P Roger Mayweather

These boys are built different!

Mayweather is a WARRIOR and he fought a good fight against Leonard.

People do not talk about Sugar Ray Leonard enough, him and every boxer in the 70's were forgotten! People nowadays think boxing is influencers settling beefs or retired UFC fighters getting a cashgrab. Back in the day, your name and fame was made in the ring, not on social media.

Floyd Sr is the realest

They were just built different back in the day. I still consider the '80s the Golden era of boxing since I have been alive. Leonard to this day is the best fighter I have ever seen.

The conditioning, the intensity and will to win was just unmatched in that era of boxing

Absolute savage the pair of these warriors. Floyd took some punishment and never gave up ever! Much respect to him, Leonard was magnificent, what a tough ass time to have been that weight division ffs, killers around every corner back then.

I met Floyd Sr in 2022 in a parking lot in Vegas. He was a cool ass dude. Took pics with me and my family. Massive respect to him

They were ripped for real. Just look at that body. This isn't weights. This is conditioning. Just beautiful.

Man Ray Leonard‘s endurance he could punch for eight hours straight, do a solid shift

Floyd Sr had heart & a sweet jab! Leonard was just on a different level

Hearns said Leonard had hardest punch of any fighter. Amazing times

Fantastic fight. Dundee had his overcompensating for the fact that Floyd was legitimately giving SRL a MUCH better scrap than they seemed to except. There’s also an incredibly strange moment in this fight that I actually think think is one of the most rare I’ve ever seen in couple dozen years watching boxing. At 8:02 both throw a right hand that would have dramatically changed the fight - imo Ray would have sparked Floyd out cold in the dirt and while we now know Ray’s chin is iron, at this point if this landed I think Ray was in trouble. Floyd seemed to have seen Ray throw it last second fully loaded up and rushed his shot only to divert late and attempt to deflect with his glove. and Ray 100% calculated Floyd was landing first hence why he slightly pulled it and braced try to slide out just a bit to let it glance . But then their punches actually punch eacother mid air with what I still think is their wrists colliding. You can tell it hurt Floyd BAD watch his right arm go limp for a second and steps back stunned. I’ve scaled the image up cleaning the edges it doesn’t land on Floyd. It just confused the hell out of him and you could tell he was in pain. Shocked he didn’t shatter his wrist. He really did rise to the level of his competitor in this night you gotta give him that .

Floyd Senior was tough.

Sugar Ray Leonard was my favorite boxer the moment I started watching him in the olympics. He was so smooth and silky on his feet but had the power to sit you on your butt. This was a great early fight to highlight because of Mayweather. Today his son is known by everybody (what a great fighter), but his father wasn't that well known. But he had a ton of guts and really did well by his son.