This is what Devin Haney and Teofimo is gonna look like

смотришь на старые бои и понимаешь, что бокс сейчас замедлился

Always linked together by this fight...Leonard and Benitez actually became brother's in law...

He called that fight way too fast benitez wasn't tripping but Leonard only through two more punches and he stopped it that wasn't cool

These guys was super fit,hats off to both men

what were these guys feeding then🤭those jabs are as fast as lightnening😱😱😱

This fight is now 42 years old

Howard Cosell is a legend

After this bout there were sports commentators who condemned this bout for being a purist show. Fuck them. This is one of the best displays of boxing ever showed. Plus these guys had to make weight therefore no middleweights were fighting in welterweight clothing.

The new school could learn Masters from Benitez. He taking an ass kicking and laughing it off while still relentlessly fighting back. #Boxinglesson

I was searching the crowd most rounds.

I miss Howard cosell

KingRy is SRL 2.0!!!

Damn look how young they were

Both fighters were great at a time when boxing was boxing and all great fighters fought great fighters

Tough fight for Sugar Ray..how you explain to your wife that you beat up her brother!!..lol.. yes Benitez is Ray brother in law 😂🤔🤣

LAZY

There was only six seconds left why stop the fight WTf

Benítez estA peleando con una mano

Great fighter

0:20 round 1 3:48 round 2 10:01 round 3

Benítez era un maestro del box

Benites taba engripao

My All-time favorite boxer EVER. SUGAR RSY LEONARD

Wow 15rounds

Le iba a leonard , pero que calidad la de benitez uno de los mejores

That referee really needs to explain himself!

This was the best Free TV card ever. If I remember right Hagler fought to a draw with Vito Antefirmo and another great title fight was on the undercard card. Today all 3 of those fights would be PPV

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Man I miss hearing Howard Cosell. I met Sugar Ray, Joe Frazier, Chavez and the G.O.A.T Muhammad Ali when I was an amateur. #boxinglife 🇵🇷✊🏾

Damn..hands so low

Awesome fight. Sugar Ray too quick for Wilfred Benitez. And that says something. Two grand masters in the art of movement, using feints, and slipping punches. It was almost like watching beautiful art, or two genius artists at work-Rafael and Michelangelo, Beethoven and Bach, etc

Bs, early stoppage. That aside If this is how Benitez fights after not training, I definitely wanna see how he fights with a full training camp!

This was on FREE Network Television. ABC showed this plus Marvin Hagler/Vito Draw & Marvin Johnson beating Victor Galindez. All free Friday Night Boxing.

This when boxing was boxing the best fought the best in there prime...Do anyone believe that if Floyd fought when Leonard came along that he would be undefeated. Leonard fought Benitez, Hearns, Duran and Hagler....A lot of his fan's believe he is the greatest because of a 50 and 0 record....But the only fighter he fought that came close to the fighter that Leonard fought that was Manny and they didn't fight until after Manny got knocked out....

When commentators didn't have an opinion. Just called it like they saw it

Benitez' fights were always too tactical. I'm sure it affected his marketability.

This was Leonard's 9th fight of 1979. Imagine that.

When a masterful jab defeated a great fighter

Both men were great fighters! Leonard always seemed to have a lot of class, and could so often garner the ability to win late in the bout.

Sugar Ray Leonard 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Fighting grown mans since 14 becoming champ at 16 wow Benitez was really something else very underrated fighter because it got shadow by sugar and the rest but he beat twice Duran and fought sugar and also the hit man

This fight was stopped a tad too soon. Benitez was not out on his feet. The ref was not comfortable with the blood flowing from his forehead. Benitez was just a bit tired, and so was Ray. Good technical fight. One of the best I've ever seen.

Fighting at its highest scientific level

Back then 20 year olds looked 35

These stare downs need to happen again !!

3:44 all dramatic fighter aren't like this no more

Best stare down ever

Leonard gets a reputation as an outfighter/boxer because of the 2nd Duran fight, but in general that was very uncharacteristic of him, and he didn't actually succeed that well (Duran ended up quitting due to many factors, but it's not like Leonard was ever a young Ali in that fight). He tends to prefer to punch, using his fantastic punch mechanics and natural speed and power. He was a boxer-puncher, with a lot more puncher than boxer. Here, Benitez is the boxer, Leonard is just trying to find openings to punch a hole in him (and eventually, it's exactly that which wins him the fight). In the 2nd Hearns fight, he is also unsure of what to do and kinda just follows Hearns around and drops round after round, and the two times he hurt Hearns and eventually knocked him out was yet again, him deciding 'fuck it I'm just going to punch the fuck out of this dude' and throws a 20 punch combo. Fighters show their true character when under duress, and although it's often said that Leonard fought wrongly in the first Duran fight, I don't think that's true. First of all, Dundee and team were trying to push Duran back because Duran had never shown himself to be a good outfighter. It ended up not working because Duran was able to force Leonard against the ropes by tying him up and not letting him punch like he is doing here against Benitez (and also Duran's slick counterpunching). Under that immense duress, Leonard did what he does, and tries to punch a hole through Duran, he just fails because Duran is the greatest infighter ever. In the 2nd fight, he basically avoids being trapped on the ropes effectively, but it's not like he was utterly lighting him up. This Benitez fight, in my opinion, proves that. Leonard isn't dancing out the outside and popping him with jab and counters, he's trying to find the distance and timing to throw hard, KO punches. Benitez is the one being slick, and he almost succeeds.

10:10 anyone hear that sound 🤣🤣🤣