About Sugar
Sugar Ray Leonard is an Olympic boxer and world champion who took gold at the 1976 Olympics and became the first boxer to win titles in five different weight classes (welterweight, junior middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and middleweight). His 20-year professional career included victories over major fighters including Wilfred Benetiz, Roberto Duran, Thomas Hearns and Marvin Hagler.
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Known for
- Olympic boxing gold medal (1976)
- professional world champion in five weight divisions
- defeating Wilfred Benetiz
- Roberto Duran
- Thomas Hearns and Marvin Hagler
- television broadcaster for NBC ABC FOX HBO and ESPN
- memoir The Big Fight
- host of The Contender TV series
- Dancing with the Stars contestant
- Sugar Ray Leonard Foundation founder
- corporate keynote speaker
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