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Roberto Duran
and Sugar Ray Leonard for the world welterweight championship in 1980. Aaron Pryor never got a chance to fight these two great
champions. Few big name fighters took the risk of fighting dangerous Aaron Pryor. Duran, Leonard, and Pryor had one opponent
in common, Thomas Hearns. Leonard KO's Hearns in 14, and fought a draw. Duran was KO'd by Hearns in 2 rounds. Pryor defeated
Hearns for the National Golden Gloves Lightweight championship in 3 rounds. Trainer Panama Lewis came to Aaron Pryor once
and said “Pryor: Do me a favor. Don’t fight my man Roberto (Duran). I’ve got a conflict, and I can’t
be between you guys.” Panama Lewis had a loyalty to Pryor and Duran, and that was a fight that wouldn’t happen.
Panama Lewis worked the corners of both Roberto Duran and Aaron Pryor.
"Yes, I have many fond memories of
sparring with Ray. Ray gave me a job after I lost my seat on the Olympic team. I used to go stay with him and his family and
work out with Ray. We became very close friends. His Mom even sent us down to college to enroll because she wasn't sure that
boxing was going to work out for us. Obviously, we both chose to stick with boxing." - Aaron Pryor on Sugar Ray Leonard
Pryor tried to get a fight with Leonard, called leonard out, but the fight never happend. Aaron
Pryor-Sugar Ray Leonard
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It's generally agreed
that the best part of the Spenser: For Hire television show was Avery Brooks' chilly portrayal of HAWK, the cold, emotionless
mob leg breaker who seems to have given it all up to serve as Spenser's best friend and guardian angel. Hawk left Boston,
packed up his guns, his long leather pre-Columbine trenchcoat and his shades and moved back to his hometown of Washington,
D.C.
Hawk. He's big, he's black and he's mean..
Aaron Pryor earned the nickname the "Hawk" for the ferocious manner in which he devastated his opponents.
Pryor was never big on technique. He understood the footwork and mastered the punches, but he took boxing for what it
is. The bell rings, you walk into the ring and relentlessly beat on your opponent until he can't stand up. Not a whole lot
of strategy involved there.
''Just attack,'' Pryor says. ''That was part of my game. People want to see you throw
punches.''
No one threw more punches than Pryor. He approached a fight with a rage unmatched until Mike Tyson came
along.
Richard Pryor Stand Up Boxing Skit
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