Roy Jones Jr has little question who would have come out on high in a fantasy match-up between Floyd Mayweather and Sugar Ray Leonard.
Boxing legends Mayweather and Leonard each have the honour of being five-weight world champions, however it’s maybe their respective occasions at welterweight the place they had been every on the peak of their powers.
Mayweather defeated the likes of Manny Pacquiao, Shane Mosley and Juan Manuel Marquez within the 147lb division, whereas Leonard grew to become undisputed welterweight champion after wins over fellow ‘4 Kings’ icons Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns.
It has usually led followers to debate how a conflict between Mayweather and Leonard would have performed out had been they to satisfy of their primes at welterweight, and Corridor of Fame inductee Jones is definite what the outcome would have been.
Chatting with All The Smoke Struggle, Jones couldn’t see any doable manner that Mayweather would have been victorious.
“To me, folks don’t give him sufficient credit score. Folks at all times say ‘Nicely Floyd would have crushed Sugar,’ no child, Floyd will not be as almost as imply as Sugar was.
“How? [would Mayweather win]. The way you going to maintain him off him? Sugar is a canine. Folks don’t perceive. Simply because his title’s Sugar don’t imply nothing! Sugar is a canine, folks don’t give him sufficient credit score for that.”
Jones is extraordinarily assured that Leonard would have gotten his hand raised, one thing which really occurred when he took on Mayweather’s father Floyd Sr again in September 1978, claiming a tenth spherical stoppage win.
