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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Felix Trinidad, Thomas Hearns, Alfredo Angulo, Roberto Garcia, Alessandro Mazzinghi, Terry Norris, Giselle Salandy, Nino Benvenuti, David Reid, Sergiy Dzinziruk, Koichi Wajima, Tadashi Mihara, Jose Antonio Rivera, Jose Manuel Duran, Travis Simms, Harry Simon, Miguel Angel Castellini, Rafael Rodriguez, Guillermo Jones, Denis Douglin, Laurent Boudouani, Roman Karmazin, Julio Cesar Vasquez, Alejandro Garcia, Santiago Samaniego, Wilbert McClure, Brian Brunette, Carmelo Bossi, Jae-Doo Yuh, Francisco Villanueva, Jason Matthews, Mario Meraz, Michele Piccirillo, Maurice Blocker, Ricardo Cortes, Ki-Soo Kim, Milton McCrory, Bronco McKart, Glenwood Brown, Gary Holmgren, Eddie Gazo, Gilbert Dele, Yuri Radonyak, Jimmy Lloyd, Andrey Tsurkan, Ian Gardner. Excerpt: Sugar Ray Leonard (born May 17, 1956) is an American retired professional boxer and occasional actor. He was named Ray Charles Leonard, after his mother's favorite singer, Ray Charles. Leonard was the first boxer to earn more than $100 million in purses, and he is widely considered to be one of the best boxers of all time, winning world titles in five weight divisions and defeating future fellow International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees Wilfred Benitez, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Duran and Marvin Hagler. Leonard was named "Boxer of the Decade" for the 1980s. Leonard, the fifth of seven children, was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina to Cicero and Getha Leonard. He grew up in Wilmington, N.C. When he was three, the family moved to Washington, D.C. When he was ten, they settled permanently in Palmer Park, Maryland. His father worked as a supermarket night manager, his mother was a nurse. Leonard was a shy child, and aside from the time he nearly drowned in a creek during a Seat Pleasant flood, his childhood was uneventful. He stayed home a...
