Greatest Fights - Sugar Ray Leonard on Leonard v Hearns
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In the first of a new mini-series, one of the greatest boxers of all time, Sugar Ray Leonard, relives his late stoppage of Thomas "The Hitman" Hearns in 1981.
Leonard remembers how Angelo Dundee's corner work was the key to inspiring his late onslaught that ended the fight, and explains how the aftermath of this fight led to a dark period in his life when he abused alcohol and drugs.
'Greatest Fights' will focus on a brilliant or significant bout in boxing history. With a new episode every Thursday, Mike and Steve rewatch the fight with a boxer - either one who was directly involved in the fight or who was heavily influenced by it.
Future episodes include Ricky Hatton and David Haye.
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| 0:45.0 | Kostello and Bunce's greatest fights. |
| 0:50.0 | Welcome to Five Live Boxing with Costello on Bunce |
| 0:56.0 | and a new miniseries for you during these unprecedented times |
| 1:00.0 | of lockdown and quarantine. |
| 1:02.0 | And Steve, we're calling it the greatest fights. |
| 1:04.0 | And that's because it is the greatest fight. |
| 1:07.0 | Starting today and for the next nine Thursdays, |
| 1:10.0 | we're going to re-watch some of the best, the most significant, the most memorable, the most |
| 1:14.2 | unforgettable fights in boxing history. |
| 1:17.2 | But it's not just going to be me and you, no. |
| 1:20.4 | We're going to sit down. |
| 1:22.2 | We're going to have next to us, well in theory next to us, some of the greatest fighters in history, |
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