Sugar Ray Leonard Signs With Artists First
03.02.2023 - 22:33
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EXCLUSIVE: Artists First on Friday announced its signing of boxing Hall of Famer, Sugar Ray Leonard.
Leonard enjoyed an elite, 20-year career in the ring before being inducted into the International Boxing Hall Of Fame in 1997, winning three National Golden Gloves titles, two Amateur Athletic Union championships and the 1975 Pan-American Games crown. He first got into boxing at age 14 and turned professional after winning a gold medal at the 1976 Olympic games, in a last-ditch effort to help his family with medical bills incurred from his father’s hospitalization with meningitis.
Leonard won his first professional fight at age 20, then going on to defeat some of the greatest boxers of the modern era, from Wilfred Benetiz to Roberto Duran, Thomas Hearns and Marvelous Marvin Hagler, from whom Leonard won the world middleweight title. His boxing career also saw him win world titles in the welterweight, junior middleweight, super middleweight, and light heavyweight division, becoming the first boxer to land world titles in five different weight classes.
Leonard’s charisma and deep knowledge of the sport of boxing led him into a successful career as a television broadcasterfor NBC, ABC, FOX, HBO and ESPN. He was tapped for the role of international commentator for the record-breaking Mayweather vs. McGregor fight of 2017, and has also provided ringside analysis for both Matchroom Boxing and Golden Boy Boxing — two promotions of the live and on-demand sports streaming platform, DAZN.
Also a bestselling author, philanthropist and the longtime face of Skechers’ popular Relaxed Fit collections, Leonard served as host and mentor across three consecutive seasons of the Emmy-nominated boxing reality series The Contender from Mark
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