OverviewAI-generated
Sugar Ray Leonard is a male from the United States. His professional career concluded on March 1, 1997. He stands at a height of 70.5. Leonard has recorded 40 matches, with 36 wins and 3 losses. He maintains an official website and has 270,712 social media followers.
Leonard is also an author. Open Library lists three works under his name, including "Big Fight, the," "Big Fight: My Story," and "The Big Fight." Crossref records five works associated with him. His music profile on Last.fm shows 39 listeners and a playcount of 114.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Big Fight, the
- Big Fight: My Story
- The Big Fight
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 39
- Total plays
- 114
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sugar+Ray+Leonard">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A Conceptual Model of Service Quality and Its Implications for Future Research
· 1985 · cited 35,648x
- 2015 American Thyroid Association Management Guidelines for Adult Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: The American Thyroid Association Guidelines Task Force on Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
· 2016 · cited 12,611x
- LAMMPS - a flexible simulation tool for particle-based materials modeling at the atomic, meso, and continuum scales
· 2022 · cited 11,700x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,999x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,803x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “I know exactly what it takes to beat this man, but people say, 'Well, Ray, two years of inactivity, you'll be rusty.' No, no. He will eliminate the rust because he is what I want and I am what he wants. And boxing needs that kind of fight.”
- “That name, 'Manos de Piedra', is true, Hands of Stone. Every punch, and I'm not exaggerating, every punch that he hit me with, from the body to the head, felt like bricks, stone, rocks. He knocked my teeth back. My front, my first 3 or 4 teeth, he knocked them back because he was just so possessed. He was a demon.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Nickname
- Sugar
- Born
- Ray Charles Leonard , ( 1956-05-17 ) May 17, 1956 (age 70) , Wilmington, North Carolina , U.S.
- Height
- 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
- Weight
- Welterweight Light middleweight Middleweight Super middleweight Light heavyweight
- Reach
- 74 in (188 cm)
- Stance
- Orthodox
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Wilmington
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Sport
- boxing
- Country for sport
- United States
- Official website
- www.sugarrayleonard.com
- Image
- Sugar Ray Leonard.jpg
- Height
- 70.5
Show 11 more facts
- Commons category
- Sugar Ray Leonard
- date of birth
- 1956-05-17
- end of work period
- 1997-03-01
- social media followers
- 270712
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 40
- writing language
- English language
- sports discipline competed in
- lightweight
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- footedness
- orthodox stance
- number of losses
- 3
- number of wins
- 36
via Wikidata · CC0
~40 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Ray Charles Leonard (born May 17, 1956), better known as Sugar Ray Leonard, is an American former professional boxer. Often regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time, he competed professionally between 1976 and 1997, winning world titles in five weight classes; the lineal championship in three weight classes; as well as the undisputed welterweight championship. Leonard was part of the "Four Kings", a group of boxers who all fought each other throughout the 1980s, consisting of Leonard, Roberto Durán, Thomas Hearns, and Marvin Hagler. Leonard was the only one of them to beat the other three. As an amateur, Leonard won a light welterweight gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
The "Four Kings" created a wave of popularity in the lower weight classes that kept boxing relevant in the post-Muhammad Ali era, during which Leonard defeated future fellow International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees Hearns, Durán, Hagler, and Wilfred Benítez. Leonard was also the first boxer to earn more than $100 million in purses, and was named "Boxer of the Decade" in the 1980s. The Ring magazine named him Fighter of the Year in 1979 and 1981, while the Boxing Writers Association of America named him Fighter of the Year in 1976, 1979, and 1981. He was honored as the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year in 1981. In 2002, Leonard was voted by The Ring as the ninth greatest fighter of the last 80 years. In 2016, he was voted by The Ring to be the greatest living fighter.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sugar Ray Leonard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.