Found inside – Page 18... wound up with eye damage and had to retire . You only hear about the fighters with names - like Harold Weston , Sugar Ray Leonard , Ernie Shavers . Found inside – Page 43... Mm4| BM8H □ Debbie And Daughter: ,%*" , * - □ :: ; - beauty of the week Photo by Antono Buckson SPORTS Sugar Ray Leonard Decides Not To Retire Five days. Found inside – Page 50One of the most recent boxing champs to retire was Marvelous Marvin Hagler. Hagler gave up the ring after his controversial loss to Sugar Ray Leonard in ... Found inside – Page 48Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns will square off in their long- awaited ... But Leonard decided to un- retire one more time, and Thomas Hearns will at ... Found inside – Page 46Retire. Five days after being thrashed by Hector Coma- cho and declaring that his "career is definitely over," Hall of Fame boxer Sugar Ray Leonard said ... Found inside – Page 203 AGOR Two Fighters In boxing , for instance , a partially detached retina convinced champion welterweight Sugar Ray Leonard to retire while the biggest payday of his career was still ahead of him — the fight with Marvin Hagler . Leonard ... With vivid scenes, poignant dialogue, and new interpretations of historical events, this is a biography that is novelistically engrossing -- a richly evocative portrait of the friendship that shaped two giants and changed sports and ... Found inside – Page 79... “Sugar Ray” Leonard, who had come out of retirement for the fifth time and had not boxed for ... he was shot at again, and this time they did not miss. Found insideAt the end of a threeminute sparring round, Ray and his partner retire to opposite corners, lean across the ropes, and spit blood and saliva into the ... Found inside... to Gerry's organization (F.I.S.T.), which provides medical insurance and care for fighters after they retire. 4. Roberto Duran vs. Sugar Ray Leonard ... Found insideThey called him 'Hands of Stone'. In his own words, and for the first time, Roberto Duran tells his unbelievable story in I Am Duran: The Autobiography of Robert Duran. Found inside – Page 46SPORTS Hearns Unhappy To Learn Of Leonard's Retirement From Ring Thomas "Hitman" Hearns was less than jubilant when Sugar Ray Leonard was recently persuaded ... Found inside – Page 97They retire early . ... The room was crowded with citizens of the fight racket : Riddick Bowe and Lennox Lewis , Ray Leonard and Willie Pep ... Only when the fight started and Mike Tyson came down the aisle in Las Vegas did Ali ' s eyes focus intensely . ... Wilfredo kept fighting for seventeen years , going up against the best fighters in several divisions , including Sugar Ray Leonard and Tommy Hearns . Found inside – Page 9... champ Jose Napoles into a sixth - round stoppage ; Napoles , 35 , then retires . ... Michael Spinks , Sugar Ray Leonard , Johnny Grant , Pete Ranzany ... Found inside – Page 46Hagler Hasn't Retired Yet, He's Busy Counting Money Marvelous Marvin Hagler may not be happy with Sugar Ray Leonard's decision to retire, but the former ... Found inside – Page 47Trotters 'Clown Prince' Geese Ausbie To Retire Hubert "Geese" Ausbie, ... said his biggest dreams "went up in smoke when Sugar Ray Leonard retired," has ... In Four Kings, award-winning journalist George Kimball documents the remarkable effect they had on the sport and argues that we will never see their likes again. Found inside – Page 48... realizing that he won't be able to secure a rematch with Sugar Ray Leonard, has decided to retire from boxing and concentrate on movies. Found inside – Page 52... of stone," former welterweight boxing champ Sugar Ray Leonard said that he has given strong consideration to his wife Juanita's wish that he retire. Found inside – Page 40Sugar Ray Leonard, middleweight boxing champion who has come out of retirement (for the fourth time) to fight World Boxing Council light heavyweight ... A reissue of bestselling, award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates' classic collection of essays on boxing. Found inside – Page 137Leonard, Sugar Ray 137 Further Reading Chadwick, Bruce. When the Game Was Black and White. New York: Abbeville, 1992. Clark, Dick, and Lerry Lester, eds. Found inside... which is why I can quite understand why so many boxers, the likes of Larry Holmes, George Foreman, and Sugar Ray Leonard, didn't want to retire because, ... Found insideMy Life In and Out of the Ring Sugar Ray Leonard, Michael Arkush. neither did he. Mike, if truth be told, would have been happy to see me retire as far back ... Found inside – Page 361Known for his agility and finesse, boxer Sugar Ray Leonard won 36 of 40 ... Following his Olympic Victory in 1976, he announced his retire— ment from the ... Found inside – Page 235In retirement he became the figurehead for a national anti-bullying ... sense of loss and struggling in retirement hinted at by Sugar Ray Leonard's words at ... Found inside – Page 46Sugar Ray Goes For Five, To Fight Lalonde In Fall Three-time champion Sugar Ray Leonard, who has quit boxing four times, said, "I will never retire again," ... Found inside – Page 49Sugar Ray Leonard Comes Out Of Retirement Again; Set To Battle 'Macho' Camacho Sugar Ray Leonard Larry Holmes ^ Our OF THE WOODS: Tiger Woods holds up his. Found insideWe often feel the most powerless just before we’re expected to act powerful. As you’ll learn in this life-changing book, practice might make perfect, but perfection is useless if you can’t summon it when it counts. Found inside – Page 47NFL Star Selmon Opts For Retirement Over Surgery Lee Roy Sel- m o n ... Boxing Council Fundraiser Will Honor Ray Leonard On May 17, His Birthday "People ... Found inside – Page 62Hagler found it in the shape of the retired Sugar Ray Leonard, who agreed to return to contest the WBC middleweight championship also held by Hagler. Found inside – Page 1196E ' S 32 years old , but Sugar Ray Leonard is not your usual 32 - year - old boxer . He ' s more like a 1982 ... But I can assure you guys , " he was saying now at yesterday ' s news conference , “ I won ' t retire . ” Leonard had “ retired " too many ... Found insideWatch Sugar Ray Leonard, the fighter of the future, and you will see the echo ... Jack Johnson did, the way Joe Louis did, the way Sugar Ray Robinson did. Found inside – Page 54First it was Sugar Ray Leonard's pride that brought him back to boxing ... I reached my decision (to retire) when I got back to my corner and looked at ... A Ringside Affair brings that brilliant epoch back to life – and puts it in the perspective it deserves. A brief biography of "America's Sweetheart," the welter-weight champion boxer. They called him Manos de Piedra: “Hands of Stone”. American journalist Christian Guidice has written the first – and definitive – story of Duran’s extraordinary life both in and out of the ring. Found inside – Page 260... Sugar Ray Leonard, Lennox Lewis, Larry Holmes, Ken Norton, Tommy Hearns, ... In some people's eyes, he did box on too long, but not in his own. Found inside – Page 1514 Which greatboxer did Sugar Ray Leonard defeat in 1987towin the world middleweight title after a threeandahalf year retirement? 15 Howmany rounds did Mike ... Found inside – Page 137Sugar. Ray. Leonard's. crown. and. three. other. boxing. titles. WHEN Thomas Hearns stepped into the ring at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit last August to face ... A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year “Plenty of books have taken us inside baseball, but August takes us directly inside players’ heads.” —Entertainment Weekly 3 Nights in August captures the strategic and emotional complexities ... Found insideYou, who wrote about the whiplash Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard felt each time they tried to retire from the sport at which they were geniuses. Found inside – Page 51Stepping out of retirement after a five-year layoff (not counting his one-fight comeback in 1984) the new champ said, "Once I beat Sugar Ray Leonard, ... "This is a surprising book, a terrific book. It's not about boxing, but about an odd, demanding world in which boxing is the thread, the key to existence. Wiley deftly broadens the delineation of this world and its people. Found inside – Page 47Trotters 'Clown Prince' Geese Ausbie To Retire Hubert "Geese" Ausbie, ... said his biggest dreams "went up in smoke when Sugar Ray Leonard retired," has ... 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