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Born January 2, 1964 • Norfolk • Virginia
Died July 14, 2019 (aged 55) • Virginia Beach
Awards And Honors Pan American Sports Games • Olympic Games • Golden Gloves (1982)
Sugar Ray Leonard in white trunks throws a punch at Marvin Hagler, who is blocking with his arms, during their 1987 middleweight title fight in a boxing ring.
Sugar Ray Leonard
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Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Julio César Chávez
Mexican boxer
Hearns, Thomas
Thomas Hearns
American boxer
Durán, Roberto
Roberto Durán
Panamanian boxer
Barney Ross
Barney Ross
American boxer
Mike Tyson
Mike Tyson
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Evander Holyfield
Evander Holyfield
American boxer
Champion boxer Michael Spinks
Michael Spinks
American boxer
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Lennox Lewis
British boxer
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Nino Benvenuti
Italian boxer
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Sugar Ray Robinson
American boxer
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Henry Armstrong
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Joe Louis
American boxer
George Foreman
George Foreman
American boxer
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Larry Holmes
American boxer
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Alexis Arguello
Nicaraguan boxer and politician
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American boxer

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