"Sugar" Ray Leonard was born in Wilmington,Carolina in 1956.He began boxing at 14 and in 1976 won the Olympic light welterweight title.He turned professional in 1977.Two years later he won the first of many world titles when he beat Wilfred Benitez to become welterweight champion.Leonard went on to become the first man to win world titles at five different weights,all within ten years.He held welterweight,light middleweight,middleweight,light heavyweight and super middleweight titles.
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