10 greatest boxers of all time

#3 Sugar Ray Leonard

Welterweight, junior middleweight, middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight

career: 1977-97 Record: 36-3-1 (25 KOs)

Leonard burst onto the scene by winning a gold medal at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. He was considered to have the fastest hands and the quickest footwork in the welter/middleweight division During his impressive career, Leonard held various world boxing championship titles, from the welterweight through the light heavyweight division.

The first boxer to earn more than $100 million in purses, won world titles in five weight divisions, and defeated future fellow International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees Wilfred Benítez, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Durán, and Marvin Hagler. His iconic status was segmented when he came back from retirement in 1987 to defeat WBC world middleweight champion Marvin Hagler

The man who could do it all, The man who had Great fighting skills, flashing fists, who transformed from Olympic champion to world champion seamlessly and with an all-round slickness which saw him being loved by boxing aficionados around the world made him one of the Greats of this sport.

Memorable bout: On November 25, 1980, Sugar Ray Leonard knocked out Roberto Duran in the eighth round in the famous "No Mas" bout. He regained the WBC Welterweight Championship that he had lost seven months earlier to Duran.