WOW!! KNOCKOUT OF THE YEAR - Sugar Ray Leonard vs Donny LaLonde, Full HD Highlights
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WOW!! KNOCKOUT OF THE YEAR - Sugar Ray Leonard vs Donny LaLonde, Full HD Highlights
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This is my top three best finishes by Sugar Ray Leonard. In terms of weight class, SRL was the underdog here but man, he pulled a great performance.
A great battle between two diehard warriors. LaLonde fought the fight of his career with a heart, chin, and determination to match, making him a serious challenge to Leonard. But Sugar Ray showed why he is boxing great with a heart, chin, and determination to match.
Gotta’ give Donny credit for sticking with one of the fastest fighters ever. He may have lost the fight but he put up a hell of a fight and never backed down.
LaLonde was a bigger bum and got beat by a smaller man....
What a great fight both men gave it their all. True Warriors 👍
Sugar Ray has always been a class act and super hand speed , he fought some of the best.
He's one of my favorite fighters.
Yes mine also ...
Brilliant fighter...legendary even..went in with and beat some of the best boxers that have ever been..in my humble opinion
I remember watching this fight at the time. A Sugar Ray classic. The fight showcased everything I love about him. My favourite fighter.
Yep down early but came back in the middle rounds. Knockout was brutal.
I wish Hagler had not taken Mugabi fight. He would have knocked Leonard out. Leonard waited & waited yrs while Hagler knocked out Challenger after Challenger. Then, when Hagler with more knockouts that fights on his record than Leonard. Had the war with knockout artist Mugabi, knocked Mugabi out. Then Leonard wanted to play patty cake & run. Stole the Marvelous ones title. It almost made me puke.
But Hagler fought a tentative fight, just couldn't seem to get off that night. Really disappointing to see.
Lalonde had chronic shoulder problems. A good Canadian kid. Great fighter
not surprised with the way he over extended on his punches in this fight.
Detroit guy here. I liked him. I thought he was good for the sport. Lots of respect for him.
I remember watching this live as a kid and going crazy when Sugar Ray won....
This fight turned me into a lifelong boxing fan when I was a kid. This edited video does not convey how much Ray was being clobbered in the early going - and then he has this massive come from behind win by KO. I was also going crazy.
Same here. I actually watched it with my mother. lol
I was 12 years old when I watched this bout, two warriors, and I thought that Sugar gonna loose
I miss the days when you could see championship fights on the major networks.
@@bkmeahan, cbs
Great fight for both men, but Leonard ended it in phenomenal fashion! Thank you!
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In my humble opinion Sugar Ray Leonard was the greatest natural welterweight that ever lived. He moved up into those weight classes for the money. But he was the greatest 147 pounder
Wrong Sugar Ray
@@daltonmoore8419 you mean Sugar Ray Robinson, right ? At what weight did Robinson fight at,?
Evidently u got the wrong sugar Ray, put Robinson on it then u'll be right.
You have never heard of Sugar Ray Robinson?
@@luisvelasquez7702 welther, middlle, & Light Heavy many say # for # the greatest, he once won 81 st fights
I didn't want lamonde to fight Leonard cause of the weight class and sugar Ray was too fast and Smart
Donny Lalonde was a champion and hell he fought like a champion but class act Sugar Ray took charge when Lalonde started to tire
That’s my great uncle that man may have lost but man can he take a beating
@@TristanLalonde-vd9rw He was a champion 🏆 and deserves top respect,also a gent!!!
@@TristanLalonde-vd9rw I commend you Tristan , I admired your uncle alot , great fighter 👍👍
Maaaan :) that was some kinda dust up and a proper knock down drag out fight …. I figure it was fairly even…. until it looked like ?? Maybe Lalonde tired and then Lordy didn’t SRL snap back and take advantage … a helluva fight and I wouldn’t have got in a ring with either of them fellas unless I’d had a pick handle and a good pair of running shoes … if the pick handle don’t work ? You’re gonna need them running shoes 😅😅😅😅
Get your boots knocked!
Sugar Ray L... what a champion boxer, one of my favs of all time.
I remember watching this fight live. Donny put on a good show, but on that night I was in awe of how good Sugar Ray was.
yep I totally agree I have been watching sugar Ray since I was a little kid basically that night he took a pretty good shot or two and then kick this guy's ass it proves how good he was he was not liked by a lot of hagler fans I want a pocketful of money on that fight
Donny ....
yeah I didn't realize how much bigger Lalonde was than Sugar
Donny, not Danny.
Alot of people act like Ray Leonard was a pretty boy with just flash and showmanship But Ray was actually one of the toughest fighter in boxing that could give and take with the best of them oh yeah Lonny came to fight that night
💯💯💯💯💯
Ray took a beating in that fight...his challenger did great! He just needed to finish Ray earlier in the fight. I was disappointed in Ray's overall performance...too late. Ray ate a lot of strong rights = 🤕
. iiooooooooooppp
Yes, they did. I definitely WAS NOT one of them. But the poor guy facing Leonard is NOT the BUZZSAW 😅
Noone acts like that lol
Слава Богу! Здравствуйте! Сахарный боксëр от Бога! Умел всё в ринге, не только обмануть, но и вырвать победу зубами! Спасибо!
The days when good fights where on free TV
These fights were Deff NOT free my friend they were on pay per view Hbo and Showtime. I watched it live thats how I know.
The good old days of Hbo pay per view! Lol
Maybe free in countries other than America. In the US, fight was aired live on pay per view cable and then replayed on premium channel HBO a week later. If it ever aired on free tv in the US, that would have been month(s) later.
@@hawaiianpunch5432 - True that.
Ray had the best chin in boxing....unreal....Donnie got cute and threw it away....great fighter great post !! 👍🤟💯🇺🇸
Ray could make a great fighter look like an amature! One of the very best ever.
Lalonde was not a great fighter.
Thank you for posted this, I missed it back in the day.
I was told this fight was fixed. Lalonde was guaranteed $7 million to throw the fight or he would never get another backed big payday ever again. He took the fight under that offer. He jumped rope, skipped eating after making weight and ran in place for over 1 hour to tire himself out for the upcoming fight. Ray was the one with the big name and the reputation and image that brought in the big backing for the fight. Donnie LaLonde destroyed Livingston Bramble in a previous fight which showed how good he was. LaLonde never fought another fight.
Para mim Sugar Ray Leonard foi o melhor lutador de box de todos os tempos
I was always impressed by Leonard's 2nd and 3rd wind to finish in a flurry like he did Hearns
That's experience talking
LaLonde shouldn’t have taken the fight. And I never heard him cry about it.
Now that was boxing old school loved sugar a touch of class
I remember watching this fight back in the late '80s. I had always been a sugar Ray Leonard fan, and I had also followed the career of Donnie LaLonde as well. I was quite conflicted as to who I would have liked seen win, so I had settled on just wanting to see a great fight and I got my wish. I got to see both warriors give it there all one shining in the beginning of the fight the other towards the end excellent definitely not a waste of time.
5:53
Leonard was nothing but a show boat
Lalonde put up a fantastic effort and deserves a ton of credit.
Not long after this fight, he had a chance to get the title back, but he chose to retire instead.
Psalms 144:1 AMEN✨
The better you get the more you have to stay on your toes..woooo
Thank you for this Fight😁
We Love Mike Tyson but Sugar Ray wasn't nothing to play with either..This was a good competitor for him and I hope you all enjoyed it...What I got out of this fight is that we stand firm and fight through our trials and tribulations when we're living right and getting better in our walk but we forget that we weren't as strong as we are now when it comes to a trial that would make us throw in the towel..Again we really our growing stronger Mentally and Spiritually as we hold on to his unchanging hand.. Praise him✨
GOD BLESS BOTH FIGHTERS❤️
I LOVE YOU...🦅
Bardzo dobra walka. Sugar był lepszy od początku . Zaczynam patrzeć na walki niższe niż ciężkie bardziej życzliwie. Tu jest większa szybkość i precyzja. Jest też większa wydolność zawodników i wytrzymałość na ciosy oczywiście relatywnie do kategorii zawodników.
Robert Boniecki I couldn't have said it better myself.
@@vestibulate I'm Polish and (assuming that you're not) it's funny hahahahaha
Leonard was an all-time great I don't think anyone who knows boxing would argue that
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Sugar Ray was also a very humble and personal person. He tipped me 20 bucks in the early 80s to check his oil at a gas station I worked at. Minimum wage then was 3.65 an hour.
Good story
I had forgotten how competitive this fight was early...Sugar had to work for this one.
It was tough for Leonard because of the weight. Plus, LaLonde was awkward and a little dirty at times. But he fought hard, stayed active and had power in his punches.
He had a puncher’s chance. I think he gave Leonard more trouble than Hagler did in some respects.
After giving it all in the first five rounds, Donny Lalonde ran out of gas and ended up getting dramatically knocked out.
Ele é uma lenda
I didn't expect Wanda Sykes doing commentary.
Wow, I’d never heard of Donny Lalonde but he gave Sugar Ray Leonard a great fight here. It was his 34th pro fight against Leonard’s 36th, and he was 28 years old to Leonard’s 32. Lalonde was bringing it from the opening bell but looks like Leonard saved himself for the later rounds and it showed.
Nobody heard of Donny Lalonde. Even when Leonard fought him. Leonard was ducking the best fighters in the land, to fight the Donny Lalonde's of the world. And only when the best fighters of the world were old and had lost a step, did Leonard fight them.
LaLonde was the light heavy champ, WBC, Sugar was welter weight, who jumped to middle he was outweighted by Donny, this was one of his greatest fights, even the great Ray Robinson lost when he tried to take the light heavy crown from Joey Maxum
@@josephhewes3923 U sound mentally challenged, u say, Sugar, who fought & beat Duran, Hands of Stone twice, Hitman Hearns a win & draw, beat Marvelous Marvin the legendary Middle weight champ, Beat Benitez, AND U SAY HE DUCKED THE BEST, U R INSANE, MAKE UP YOUR OWN FACTS, WHO DID HE DUCK
Yeah that Landone me how to use his reach and was very good I see what impressed me is how Lenard found away to get around lalonde reach which he had to take chances. His fight.
At that time Haggler, Hearns, and Duran were the best fighters in the world. Now which one did he duck! And coming from the world Olympics as world champion now i ask again WHO DID HE DUCK!
u could see . Ray was super human fit here. he got stronger as the fight wore on and Lalonde just wore down. he had openings but in the later rounds had nothing behind his punches. Rays hand speed and accuracy is remarkable as it was only in the replay i could see how violent and dominating that late round knockout was. gotta be fit. gotta be in shape. and get your hands up.
LeLonde was tough and gave Leonard everything he could handle.
LeLonde was a hard hitter and could beat tough fighters… however Champions rise to the occasion and Leonard did just that. He took some tough shots but Leonard fought a lot of high caliber competition and was always a very smart fighter.
LaLonde was an awkward fighter who had an obvious weight advantage. If Leonard had fought him at a lower weight he would have dismissed him in three rounds.
@@DeCurtaRican pretty confident statement based on an "if".
@@DeCurtaRicanSeriously??? Lalonde had to come in 7 pounds lighter than usual.
Sugar Ray L was a great fighter that had many demons with his addictions. For those who thinks he's better that Floyd Mayweather I call BS.
siempre sugar daba ventaja de ser ul super liviano a ser whelter pero era mas inteligente y veloz , pero lo dañaron en su ojo . ver estas peleas es un aprendizaje para cualquier boxer
Sugar Ray was pound for pound the best fighter of his generation... Fast hands, great stamina, strong chin. And he was smart, in and out of the ring.
Leonard was a coward against Hagler in Las Vegas, where it's easy to bribe anyone including fight judges. He ran away from Hagler for most of the fight. He even requested a larger ring and 12 rounds instead of 15 rounds before the fight and was given both. More room and less time to have to run away from Hagler. After the fight Leonard had to go to the hospital to get checked out. He probably had to get oxygen from running away from Hagler so much.
Hagler was a real fighter and Leonard was a running chickenshit. Anyone knows that you never win a fight by running away from your opponent as Leonard did, but the corrupt [bribed] judges gave the decision to Leonard. I watched the entire fight, and I couldn't believe my ears when I heard the decision. Hagler was robbed, and Leonard is not the best fighter of his time. you gotta' be kidding me? Marvin Hagler may or may not be the best fighter of his time but Leonard was never even on that list.
Duran.
@@carlomiller1984 sorry but it should have been an easy win for hagler ,unfortunately he chased ray for the whole fight hardly landed while ray picked him off with flashy combos in the last 30 seconds of the rounds ,still a very close fight ,rip marvellous Marvin hagler
@@staffh3815 he had to chase the chickenshit leonard in order to box him. Hagler was robbed and you should just say it, instead of sounding ambiguous about it.
What do you think would've happened if Hagler had not tried to chase and punch leonard during this match? An old saying "you never win a fight by running away from your opponent." that is with the exception that Don King the promoter of this fight bribed the judges. why? King is a criminal who was determined to take the biggest chunk of the $78 million this fight generated, in addition to promoting it, he had bet money on leonard.
Grow up and smell the coffee.
@@smooch7842 Yeah I have real respectfor the Fighter, but not the Dancer.
Es un lujo presentar una pelea de este tenor con buen audio y buena visual. Felicitaciones. Gracias.
I went with a couple of friends to watch this fight on closed circuit TV at a high school basketball gym in Wilmington, NC. Back then, we didnt have pay per view at home. We did the same thing for the Roberto Duran vs Marvin Hagler fight. I was pulling for LaLonde, but SR was too good.
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Yep back then cable tv was basically new in most areas. So a lot of people didn't have that technology and had to go to closed circuit joints to pay to watch a fight in another city live.
I remember this fight
What do you want, a participation trophy??
@@jimrauh3584 Nope just don't talk about Mayweather JR
Sugar Ray Leonard was the boxer of his time, superb.
Sugar Ray el más grande de todos! Saludos desde Argentina!
I love Sugar Ray Leonard, able to absorb shots delivery shots and figure out how to win.
Wow!
LaLonde was HUGE compared to Leonard, and he chopped him down, and LaLonde was a GOOD boxer. Just amazing. Both of these fighters!
LaLonde was a sack of potatoes, a paper champion who would not have lasted 2 rounds if Michael Spinks was still ruling the light heavyweights.
As for Leonard, yes there was a time when he truly was one of the best boxing champions of the world, blinding speed, boxing skills and good punching power with a cocky attitude. However by the time he stepped in the ring with La"Blonde" he was past his prime and weighed in at 165. That's embarrassing and pathetic when a "puffed" up middle weight knocks out a 175 light heavyweight. Leonard knew he still had enough left in his tank to beat a mediocre fighter who benefited from Michael Spinks retirement.
@@JoseContreras-fy7lb Leonard was one of only two people to ever drop him. 41 wins in 47 fights, with 39 KO's, agains rated fighters. Even after Leonard, Lalonde won four straight fights and fought Bobby Czyz, an excellent boxer, to a decision, although he lost.
I don't call that a paper champion.
@@JoseContreras-fy7lb like to see you go a round with DL
He was doing great toll he ran out of gas and his limited defence skills shit the bed.
Guy had no amatuer background and went far with balls and a deadly right hand only. His left shoulder is fucked and has a screw holding it together .
Pretty disrespectful to call him a bag of potatoes. Yeah he's no spinks but stil???
No he wasn't amazing. He fought Leonard when Ray was well past his prime, had this fight taken place even five years earlier Ray would have made very short work of him. I'm from Winnipeg and I watched the fight back in the day it's CLEAR what the outcome would be and if you couldn't see it then or now your just cheerleading. Lalonde was indeed a paper champion. Stud Muffin?? For fuck sakes man.
@@robertnahum5823 I think you replied to the wrong guy. I agree Lalonde was not amazing but he was a good pro...can't take that away.
He was my favorite fighter growing up. Class act
I hate that Sugar Ray Leonard isn’t talked about more. He was the only fighter that excited us as much as Ali did!
Yep We just only for the most part celebrate the BIG GUYS the HEAVYWEIGHTS .I'mm77 and often watch the other division fighters . Great events Willie Pep ,Sandy Sadler, .La Motta ,Sugar Ray Robinson, Bob Foster ,Dick Tiger etc etc.
I think his nice guy persona was a double edge sword. He had the will, stamina and underrated chin of a lion on top of his talent. Ali was a showmanship and used that to up his celebrity status and have more people talking about him. You can make similar case with others prominent boxers.
He was in the probably the best era. One of the most exciting boxers for sure.
Guys question since I don't see this often. At 1:37. That'd be defined as a "Gazelle Punch" right?
Before Mike Tyson came along, Sugar Ray Leonard was the boxer we rooted for 🥊
That was a great fight. They both did well
Greatness!! Skill. IQ . Footwork. Power. Speed . the will to win and the heart of a lion. Sugar Ray Leonard truly a goat!!
Who was that guy Leonard pushed away at the end when it was over? Seemed like he was from his own camp. Anybody have any back story on that?
This did look weird, someone jumping ino the ring? No idea
I want to know that too.
Chief second?
That was one of his own team, but Leonard wasn't in the mood for hugs and kisses....he was still trying to unwind from kill or be killed mode.
@@jimquantic the men Leonard was ridiculous absurd
At the end this doesn’t look like a technical knockout, rather a regular knockout
Technically..........he was knocked out :-)
Technical knockout so Lalonde wouldn't be further humiliated.
After his retinal operation, Sugar was not the same fighter, but in this bout he became a legend, knocking out to a light heavyweight
Leonard was a true great long before this bout
Lalonde had to make the 168 lb. limit so he was fighting as a super-middleweight or a weakened light heavy
@john jones Yep. It was a gimmick to give Ray the light- heavy belt without fighting a light-heavyweight. Ray had a talent for diminishing belts.
@@lonvait863 After the fight, Donny said that he felt comfortable and had no trouble making the weight.
@@thelevisullivan He showed class saying and I'd bet it was more sportsmanship than fact since e agreed to it. In any case, even at 175 he was awkward and limited which is why he was chosen for this gimmick. WBA champ Virgil Hill was much more formidable.
why was lenorld allowed to hold so much ,? that's not boxing
Two great fighters. Tough fellas, both.
Donny threw the kitchen sink at him but Sugar Ray was no phony...the real deal.
Yeah but Lalonde wasn't that good
@@ekibirigeable He was the WBC light heavyweight champ from 87-88 so he was in fact a champion! So he was good !
Leonard is so smart and Lalonde was so eager to make a big payday and fight a legend that if memory serves me he agreed to come in at 168 which was a huge factor. His stamina and strength dissipated over the middle rounds and Ray assumed control. He did the same shit with Hagler. Marvin like Lalonde was so eager for the payday that he said ok to all of Leonard's demands. Ray was so brilliant inside and outside of the ring
Leonard was smart and if my memory serves me he dictated the rules. Which
👍 Agreed!
Lalonde came in the ring clean, confident, arrogant pretty, cocky, angry while also very skilled, and left in a body bag. Crazy fight. Sugar ray is a goat 🐐
I remember Howard Cosell said this fight was like a race between a Ferrari and a pickup truck. This was the time in boxing when the superstars were all welterweights. Before that they were all heavyweights.
Yes exactly. That Ray would want to fight Lalonde shows he was not much of a fighter
@Dubon Gros Are you saying Sugar Ray Leonard wasn't much of a fighter?? If that's what you're saying then my dog knows more about physics than you do about boxing.
@@dubongros3108 you’re right, he was fraud
Always chuckled at the Leonard knock down, LaLonde never even hit him, Ray slipped, but it was entertaining. Fun to watch as Ray let Donny hang around to earn that $5 million pay day.
Donny LaLonde foi heróico! De grande resistência e técnica, conduziu a luta com equilíbrio.
O nocaute é, às vezes, apenas um detalhe que favorece o lutador que sabe perceber seu momento...
Nonsense, you're speaking English. Leonard knocked him out and win, that's what count, we are not interested one bit with your technical nonsense & Jargons.
Tony Benetton t left I’m sanfrsnsisco
LOL
Haha!
And I must say boxing is timing not just holding heads down and being barbarians, leonard used his wits and waited for the reckless fighter to calm down and manhandled his ass
One of my fav boxer Sugar Rey Leonard!! From Philippines
SRL was on the slide at this point but still a complete fighter, slick boxing skills, devastating finisher, could go into the trenches he had heart and then some. Definitely in my all time top 5 along with Ali, Salvador Sanchez, Pacquiao, Arguello
That is very lofty company - for an athlete to be in anybody's top five.
Really? So no Roy Jones, Jr.? No Julio Caesar Chavez?
@@DeCurtaRican No. Both wrre great but not right up there.
There were far too many dodgy decisions on Julio Cesar Chavez career and way too much deliberate fouling. He's much like Duran is that respect.
I loved Jones right from Seoul. Always loved watching the American and Cuban Olympic boxing teams until things such as happened to Jones became so blatant the sport became unwatchable.
Also Calzaghe said that a Jones in his prime would have beaten him.
But allowing for all that Jones was born too late. Boxing was already on a downward spiral. Too many manufactured fights, to obtain too many fake titles (a charge which could be levelled at Pac except he fought really top quality fighters viryualky all the time) and his decline was quite dramatic IMO.
@@DeCurtaRican No Mayweather either.
I've always thought Sugar was all hype. There's no way he would have beaten Floyd at Junior W or at a full W if Floyd had four fights as a W to get accustomed to the division. Floyd would have settled down and picked him apart.
Sure knew Sugar Ray was the man,but this Donny LaLonde gusty effort,took it to him
Great fight. Brown Sugar Ray Leonard vs Donny La Blonde. 😊
Old Ray, well past his prime, bad eye, whooped a prime light heavyweight's ass...That's mythical shit right there from the Sugar Man!
I think SRL got out of his prime from 1990 upward.
He was still relatively in his prime @ this stage.
@@tjadeadeyeye8630 Yeah this was before his second fight with Hearns which was a good performance from Ray
@@matthewnikitas8905 Hearns beat him in the 2nd fight.
@@blite13 Well, whoever you believe won it was still a close fight either way
@@matthewnikitas8905 not really, Hearns put him down twice.Hearns won convincingly.
That is an awesome video and both of those Brothers are on point!
Léonard boxing science was incredible .
is that kevin rooney commenting?
Sugar Ray's punching power is under rated
It's rated correctly, young kids don't understand. They think Mayhugger the best..🤣🤣
This fight shouldn't have been fought. Donny's shoulder was in desperate need of surgery. Sugar basically faught a 1 armed man.
My appreciation an actual love for sugar Ray totally grew after this I'm 65 and I watched him with Duran, Duran was my man but when he makes his comeback like this he was great. I never saw this fight I'm happy I was able to see it. Lalonde I would have never even lasted four rounds with a young sugar Ray, definitely would have never hit him God bless you sugar ray and those great champions of that era possibly the greatest era of all time it's tough to say though the graziano era was very good and sugar Ray Robinson was a master too but Leonard showed what a master he was in this fight
I watched the fight live and Lalonde fought a hell of a fight. The video doesn't show SRL putting his head out with his hands down to taunt Lalonde to show he wasn't hurt (which means he obviously was) and Lalonde made him pay dearly by splitting Leonard's lip wide open (or maybe I am confusing that with a past Leonard-Duran fight). But Leonard overcame, he was a great Champion, but this fight showed he was starting to slow. My favorite Leonard fight is how he outboxed Marvin Hagler...can't believe anyone could think Leonard lost that fight. What a boxing clinic...about as good as the clinic Buster Douglas gave Tyson. Those fights are textbook examples of how to box by the winners of each fight. Of course Clay/Ali has many fine example also.
No fighter stays young forever. I mean, SRL had some miles on him coming into this fight and he was retired more at this point as opposed to being active. For SRL to pull off what he did speaks volumes about how special he was. Donny was no day at the beach. Much respect to him.
I'm from Winnipeg, Canada, Donnie's home town. I remember this fight and how the entire city was energized and excited about a local young boxer, going to Las Vegas and taking on the Great Sugar Ray Leonard!
I thought LaLande was from Port Huron, MI area? I was there at the time of this fight and that's what the locals were saying.
@@ddbtdd he was known as 'The Golden Boy' as a salute to our golden boy that sits atop the Manitoba Legislation Building
@@jeffd9782 hmmm
@@ddbtdd I remember the event clearly and was super excited that our Winnipeg Hometown boxer was actually fighting the legendary and pretty much my favourite boxer Sugar Ray Leonard. I just checked Wiki and Donnie was born in Kitchener Ontario Canada but his hometown was considered Winnipeg: Wiki: "Donny Lalonde (born March 12, 1960) is a retired professional boxer. His nickname is "Golden Boy," after the Golden Boy statue atop the Manitoba Legislative Building in his boxing home town of Winnipeg. Lalonde held the WBC Light Heavyweight Championship from 1987 to 1988."
Yeah he was tough man the Canadian.
Any fight that headlined Sugar Ray Leonard. You KNEW it was going to be s dandy. Great boxer, GREAT Champion.👊
Ray was so much fun to watch in his prime. This fight they both loaded up for The Knockout every round
One of the best
Leonard was one of the biggest assholes in boxing, lording himself over a guy who was forced to weaken himself down to 168. So glad when Camacho humiliated him.
hahha,yess,i love that complete ass whipping camacho gave him
Sugar Ray Leonard an amazing fighter.
That wasn't a TKO, Lalonde was out cold.
Sugar was too skilled , better conditioned , and his punches were precise and with power . Sugar Ray Leonard is an all time great .
Yeah, whatever.
Mayweather would get his ass kicked if he ever fought Sugar.
Leonard could fight.
dahh-durr
@@huntercalgary Watch my boxing style and music presentation. It's virtual sparring. I could fight like Leonard, myself, Anthony Wall: th-cam.com/video/xtIgzwPAOl8/w-d-xo.html
Amazing fight! Wow!
I watched this live and recorded it onto video cassette one of my most treasured possessions :)the quality is better than on here :) not that I can play it anymore :) best fight I have ever seen considering the weight difference :)
In 1988, I would've loved to see Sugarless Ray Leonard move all the way up to a heavyweight to fight Mike Tyson... and get Apollo Creed'ed in the ring. Never could stand that cocky SOB. But I did respect him as an announcer though.
It was a bugger for poor Donny to be born in the era of the greatest champs in his division. And Sugar Ray was possibly the greatest pound for pound of all time, although I'll leave that to others to decide.
that pound for pound bs is a sham. Everyone always says the so called greatest pound for pound fighters are middleweights or welterweights, never heavyweights. The pound for pound judgement is dumb, no way you can compare. Explain how you judge pound for pound? If you want to go there the greatest fighters pound for pound are heavyweights. Pound for pound, come on give me a break.
@@Rayburn58 I get your point. We are not strictly comparing like with like, but there are things we can compare: dominance, foot and hand speed, overall ring craft, longevity, versatility, quality of opposition vanquished, etc. The debate will go on. Doubtless.
Youre right my friend, if Lalonde were active today,...he would be the undisputed champion
You are right about the sugar Ray part. Just that it was sugar Ray Robinson.
@@bhaskarphukan3889 Yes, my old man would have agreed with you.
This is a sick sport.
Leonard was well past his prime here...not as quick in all aspects, but he could still hit. I mean, Ray wasn't really known a one-punch KO guy, but his power was underrated. He could hurt you, for sure. The only guy he never really hurt was Hagler, but Hagler had a skull made of cement, so....
Where Leonard really shines is his footwork. He had the best footwork in the game. A contemporary fighter who shows foot work on his caliber is Vasily Lomachenko. His father took him out of boxing for a couple of years and put him into dancing. It improved his game tenfold.
@@kryptonionknight Agreed. I mean, I think Loma actually has the best footwork of anyone I've seen, including Leonard. The guy really is a dancer the way he creates angles, in and out, pivots, the whole shebang. But Leonard was no slouch for sure.
Yeah, Hagler was born with a Helmet.
@@theoddfather7647 Yep. As was proven in the Hearns fight.
Ray waited for Duran to be past his prime, Hagler too and he thought Hearns was past his prime when they met for the 2nd time. Ray is over rated.
Mi ídolo sugar el mejor de todos los tiempos
Leonard's heart could will him to stay in, and win a fight. He was past his prime here, and no disrespect to the rest of the fights after this, but I don't count them as real fights to base the career of Sugar Ray Leonard, because they were in a season well past Leonard's prime, and were more for nostalgia and a pay day.....sorry Tommy Hearns but the real fight was the first one.
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That’s my man that’s my man Landover
Ray Leonard was one of my favourite fighters to watch. had it all unreal skill, speed, power, chin and an unquenchable fighting spirit. His IQ transcended the ring and he used it to get things his own way in his comeback with contractual demands he insisted on to give him an advantage. Claiming a light heavy title here was a joke because the fight was at the 168 lbs limit, the light heavy category is 168 plus to 175 lbs, you can't fight for a title of a certain weight category if you don't weigh in within that category. All that happened there was that La Londe made 168 to fight for Leonard's Super middle title.
Lalonde clearly had a huge size advantage, so it was no joke fighting someone that much bigger.
Unreal skill - rofl.... 🤣
Editing sucked. Missed most of the fight. I couldn't tell what was going on.
I watched this fight live and it was spectacular, Leonard won by knockout.
Damn it I was in Korea watching it
Truly one of the greatest of all time!