Comments Thread For: Sugar Ray Leonard Says Joshua Must Be Global, Fight in America

[Madison Boxing]

Why does he need to fight in america? Where their own heavyweight champ is a nobody. Like it or not europe/uk runs heavyweight boxing now and it has done for a while

[Cobra Curry]

Our heavyweight champions did; Which just so happens to be the most glamorous division in the sport. From Floyd Patterson, to Ali, Foreman, Tyson, Holyfield, Joe Frazier, Larry Holmes and the list goes on and on. It may benefit him now but 25 years from now when he reflects back on his career, Anthony Joshua is going to regret not fighting in other parts of the world. He will become a forgotten man without a legacy.

I think you're overstating things a little here.
Holyfield never defended the heavyweight title outside the US. Neither did Holmes. Foreman had the one fight in Zaire for bundles of money, Tyson twice in Japan where he was immensely popular. On each occasion the champion was heavily favoured to win.
Fights tend to happen where the money is. Right now at HW, it's the UK.

[Cobra Curry]

Yep exciting times the plan is to fight Whyte again in a much more expensive place and then go to New York and fight overweight Miller. SRL would be so disappointed to hear the truth!......There's a man who took them ALL on.....no comparison!!!

Love Sugar Ray, but if anyone lived by "right fight at the right time" it's him.

[thack]

SRL waited until Hagler was old to fight him

He's not a Saint himself

I was lucky enough to have a hour or so a few years ago with Marvin and of course that very subject was discussed.Marvin said he was by the stage of fight with Mugabi having a few of drinks and relaxing a little bit .Mugabi with a heavy punch but pretty limited skills caught Marvin more than he should and this is when Ray started piping up.Marvin's my man but it was a great feat by Ray having not fought for five years and never a middleweight.....I still think Marvin won by a couple!

Back to the post....Although obviously different weights Marvin and Ray were absolutely head and shoulders skill and ability wise to both Wilder and Joshua who should think their selves lucky that not even the likes of Bowe ,Holyfield , Lewis or Tyson are still around .I would favour all four to beat both of them with ease.That is where this is at ........disappointing without them not wanting to fight each other!

[markther]

Of course most of these bums on here will attack Sugar Ray and get off topic AGAIN, suffering from dislexia. And thats because they are both ****** and ignorant and losers-LOL!!!!! But he didn’t say anything wrong. And it would be different if it were a fighter that wasn’t a global superstar. Besides, Joshua is a bum that just fights overseas anyways.

[Zn1]

Former five division world champion and Hall of Famer Sugar Ray Leonard believes Anthony Joshua must go global by fighting in the United States. Joshua, who holds the WBO, WBA, IBF, IBO heavyweight titles, has exclusively fought in the UK - where he brings in massive crowds, like 90,000 to his April 2017 TKO win over Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley Stadium in London.
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riiiight another cherry-picking "ATG" talking absolute bollocks

AJ doesn't need America and never will, HW boxing isn't a big deal over there anymore because American's don't have any decent HW's to root for. In the UK we support all of our HW's and especially the talented ones like AJ.

[Adamsc151]

As a UK-based fan I've no problems with any UK fighter fighting in the USA or any other country from time to time; spreading the love to other countries does build global appeal just like SRL said.

What I don't want is for some of my favourite UK boxers to do a Lennox and become a Vegas boxer, the time delay is just too much for UK fans to be able to enjoy live fights on a long-term basis. In business, you don't forget your current customers while trying to seek new ones or your foundations collapse.

The ideal thing for someone like AJ would be to get back to fighting 3 times per year instead of just twice (I'd accept 5 fights every 2 years as a middle-ground), and fight overseas once per year - be it USA, mainland Europe, Dubai, Far East, or Africa.

[strife844]

riiiight another cherry-picking "ATG" talking absolute bollocks

AJ doesn't need America and never will, HW boxing isn't a big deal over there anymore because American's don't have any decent HW's to root for. In the UK we support all of our HW's and especially the talented ones like AJ.

Did you just call Sugar Ray Leonard a cherry picker? I don't care how much you like Joshua, that has got to be one of the dumbest comments I have ever heard. You can't compare Joshua's or Wilder's record to Sugar. Fought Duran 3x, Tommy Hearns 2x, Benitez, and Hagler who was a middleweight he fought after 3 years off. Ask Kell Brook how hard it is to move from welterweight to challenge middleweight. GGG was 34 when Kell challenged. Marvin Hagler was 32 when Leonard challenged and Hagler was a big favorite to win. What cherry picking are you speaking about??? Just because an ATG without the quotation marks says something you may not like about your favorite fighter does not mean you have to disrespect their accomplishments. At least "act" like you are a true boxing fan!!

[Redgloveman]

Of course most of these bums on here will attack Sugar Ray and get off topic AGAIN, suffering from dislexia. And thats because they are both ****** and ignorant and losers-LOL!!!!! But he didn’t say anything wrong. And it would be different if it were a fighter that wasn’t a global superstar. Besides, Joshua is a bum that just fights overseas anyways.

"dislexia"

The irony is too much

[Zn1]

Did you just call Sugar Ray Leonard a cherry picker? I don't care how much you like Joshua, that has got to be one of the dumbest comments I have ever heard. You can't compare Joshua's or Wilder's record to Sugar. Fought Duran 3x, Tommy Hearns 2x, Benitez, and Hagler who was a middleweight he fought after 3 years off. Ask Kell Brook how hard it is to move from welterweight to challenge middleweight. GGG was 34 when Kell challenged. Marvin Hagler was 32 when Leonard challenged and Hagler was a big favorite to win. What cherry picking are you speaking about??? Just because an ATG without the quotation marks says something you may not like about your favorite fighter does not mean you have to disrespect their accomplishments. At least "act" like you are a true boxing fan!!

Stop looking at his wikipedia you noob

We discussed boxing long before the internet came along buddy, and SRL was a known cherry-picker. Floyd Mayweather jr fought better opposition far more often and is known as one of the biggest cherry-pickers of all time