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Sugar Ray Leonard vs Hector Camacho (1997)
Character: N/A
In October 1996, the 40-year-old Leonard announced that he was coming out of retirement to fight Héctor Camacho for the lightly regarded IBC Middleweight Championship. Camacho, a light-hitting southpaw who at 34 and as a former lightweight was also considered past his prime, had a record of 62–3–1. Leonard decided to fight Camacho after commentating on his fight with the 45 year old Roberto Duran the previous year, in which Camacho had won a disputed decision which Leonard had called "an early Christmas gift". Leonard blamed his poor performance against Norris to lack of motivation, a rib injury, moving down in weight, and divorce, which was being litigated while he was in training. "It was stupid for me to fight Norris at 154 lbs," Leonard said. "This is different. I'm in the best shape possible
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Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns I (1981)
Character: Self
Promoted as "The Showdown," Leonard (30-1 with 21 KO) fought Hearns (32-0 with 30 KO) on September 16, 1981 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada to unify the World Welterweight Championship in a scheduled fifteen-rounder. They fought before a live crowd of 23,618 and a worldwide TV audience of some 300 million.
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Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns II (1989)
Character: Self
Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas Hearns II, billed as The War, was a professional boxing match contested on June 12, 1989, for the WBC and WBO super middleweight titles.
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Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Donny Lalonde (1988)
Character: N/A
Donny Lalonde vs. Sugar Ray Leonard, billed as For All the Gold, was a professional boxing match contested on November 7, 1988, for Don Lalonde's WBC light heavyweight title and the inaugural WBC super middleweight title.
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Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Floyd Mayweather Sr (1978)
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In what was billed as “His First Big Test,” by his own trainer Angelo Dundee, Sugar Ray Leonard battled Floyd Mayweather Sr. to a 10 round knockout in the 14th fight of his professional career.
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Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Johnny Gant (1979)
Character: N/A
On January 11, 1979 at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland future multi champion Sugar Ray Leonard fought Johnny Gant in the featured bout.
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Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney (1982)
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Larry Holmes defends his WBC heavyweight crown for the 12th time from challenger Gerry Cooney on June 11th, 1982 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Larry's record at the time of the fight was 39 wins to 0 losses.
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Vault of Horror I (1994)
Character: Gravedigger
A compilation of three episodes from the Tales from the Crypt series ("Carrion Death", "None but the lonely heart" and "Abra Cadaver") with some famous cast and directors.
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Marvelous Marvin Hagler vs. Sugar Ray Leonard (1987)
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The 1980s were a golden age for the welterweight and middleweight divisions of boxing. The era was headlined by four all-time greats: Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns, and Roberto Duran. Between 1980 and 1985, each of them fought all the others, except for Hagler and Leonard. When they finally clashed in 1987, it was the climax of that extraordinary series — not literally the last fight among the foursome, but the last one that mattered. Hagler, the middleweight champion making his 13th defense, and Leonard, the former welterweight champ who was coming off a three-year retirement, were fighting for bragging rights over all their rivals. Who could have guessed that they would still be fighting over those bragging rights more than two decades later?
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Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Bruce Finch (1982)
Character: N/A
Sugar Ray did the expected, hammering the challenger into defeat in the third round at the Centennial Coliseum (Reno, Nevada) to retain his undisputed would welterweight title, and says he wants to defend his championship three more times before the end of the year.
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Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Ayub Kalule (1981)
Character: N/A
In his quest for a title in a second division, WBC Welterweight Champion "Sugar" Ray Leonard moves up to super welterweight to take on WBA Champion Ayub Kalule in Houston.
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Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Larry Bonds (1981)
Character: N/A
After making Roberto Duran quit in their highly anticipated rematch, "Sugar" Ray Leonard makes the first defense of his second reign as WBC Welterweight Champion against unheralded contender Larry Bonds.
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Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Wilfred Benítez (1979)
Character: N/A
Wilfred Benítez vs. Sugar Ray Leonard was a professional boxing match contested on November 30, 1979 for the WBC and The Ring welterweight titles. Benitez was scheduled to earn $1.2 million while Leonard would net $1 million, making their fight the richest non-heavyweight bout in boxing history at the time.
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Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Fernand Marcotte (1979)
Character: N/A
Sugar Ray Leonard, in his first test against a middleweight opponent, befuddled Canadian titleholder Fernand Marcotte with speed, then laid on the power to deliver a fight-ending right hook Sunday in the eighth round of their scheduled 10-round fight.
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Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Tony Chiaverini (1979)
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Sugar Ray Leonard 22-0 (13 KOs) vs. Tony Chiaverini 30-4 (21 KOs) The WBC ranked Leonard third at welterweight and Chiaverini sixth at super welterweight. Leonard made $140,000, and Chiaverini got $61,000. The fight took place at the Caesars Palace Sports Pavilion. Chiaverini requested an 18-foot ring, and the Leonard camp acquiesced. The fight was televised nationally by ABC on Wide World of Sports.
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Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Adolfo Viruet (1979)
Character: N/A
Leonard, the former 139-pound Olympic gold medalist at Montreal and 21-0 as a pro, spent the early rounds solving Viruet's unorthodox style before taking command of the fight. Giving up three inches in reach and three pounds, Leonard used his swarming offense to build a big lead in the 10-round battle.
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The Fabulous Four (1990)
Character: Self
This video profiles four legendary boxers - Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Thomas 'The Hit Man' Hearns and 'Marvellous' Marvin Hagler, whose rivalry commenced with the 'Brawl in Montreal'. This was the contest which saw an over-confident Leonard lose his crown to Duran. Hearns had lost out to Hagler in 1985, and it was the latter that Leonard selected to take on in his comeback for the World Middleweight Championship.
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The Fighter (2010)
Character: Sugar Ray Leonard
Boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO'd by drugs and crime.
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Mike Tyson vs Trevor Berbick (1986)
Character: Self
TYSON WINS W.B.C. CHAMPIONSHIP LAS VEGAS, Nev., Nov. 22— Mike Tyson made history tonight. The 20-year-old slugger from Catskill, N.Y., became the youngest heavyweight champion ever when he stopped Trevor Berbick at 2:35 of the second round of a scheduled 12-round bout. In taking away Berbick's World Boxing Council crown, Tyson knocked Berbick down twice, both times in the second round, pounding him so hard that he had Berbick reeling across the ring at the end in a nearly comic loop-de-loop.
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Chasing Tyson (2015)
Character: Self
Evander Holyfield knew he could never earn the respect he craved until he defeated Mike Tyson. When the two finally fought, the world witnessed not one, but two of the boxing's most memorable fights.
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How Bruce Lee Changed the World (2009)
Character: Self
More than just a biography, this film explores Bruce Lee's global impact to see how he has influenced all areas of popular culture including fitness, cinema, music, sport, dance, video games and philosophy. A journey across the United States, Asia and Europe, takes Shannon Lee on a trip back to her father's roots in Hong Kong and China. With unique access to the family's photographic archive, home movies and all material owned by the Bruce Lee Foundation.
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Great Sports Moments of the 80's (1989)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Experience the thrill as your favorite teams and heroes triumph again! Great comebacks, rivalries and record-breaking performances are here to watch over and over again.
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Riot (1996)
Character: Major Williams
An heiress is kidnapped during the chaos of a riot on Christmas Eve.
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Oliver McCall vs. Larry Holmes (1995)
Character: N/A
Oliver McCall vs. Larry Holmes, billed as "Burden of Proof", was a professional boxing match contested on April 8, 1995 for the WBC Heavyweight Championship. After Oliver McCall stunned Lennox Lewis in the second round to become WBC Heavyweight Champion, he turned down a $10 million offer from Lewis for an immediate rematch. Instead he agreed to fight 46 year old former WBC, IBF and lineal heavyweight champion Larry Holmes, who was making his fourth attempt at regaining a heavyweight title after losing to Michael Spinks in 1985. Each of his previous three attempts (against Spinks in 1986 in a rematch, against Mike Tyson in 1988, and against Evander Holyfield in 1992) ended in defeat, although he went the distance in two of the three fights.
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I Spy (2002)
Character: Vegas Commentator
When the Switchblade, the most sophisticated prototype stealth fighter created yet, is stolen from the U.S. government, one of the United States' top spies, Alex Scott, is called to action. What he doesn't expect is to get teamed up with a cocky civilian, World Class Boxing Champion Kelly Robinson, on a dangerous top secret espionage mission. Their assignment: using equal parts skill and humor, catch Arnold Gundars, one of the world's most successful arms dealers.
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I Am Durán (2019)
Character: Self
The story of four-time World Champion Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán. A one man wrecking-ball who took on the world, transcended his sport and helped inspire a nation to rise up against its CIA funded dictator to achieve independence. From his days shining shoes on the street, to packing out arenas across the world, this is the story of modern Panama and its most celebrated child.
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No Más (2013)
Character: N/A
A look at the November 1980 re-match between Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran and how two infamous words haunt both.
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One Night: Joshua vs. Ruiz (2019)
Character: Self
'One Night: Joshua vs. Ruiz' is a comprehensive look at the night Andy Ruiz pulled off the biggest boxing upset in decades.
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