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...classic confrontation between a man who had it all and a man who felt he had too little: Sugar Ray Leonard, 25, the polite, boyishly handsome star of soft-drink commercials who had burst onto the boxing scene at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and then vaulted with seeming ease to fame, $25 million in purses and a professional record of 30 wins (21 by knockouts) and one loss; and Thomas Hearns, 22, the "Hit Man," mean-looking and lean as a snake, who climbed from poverty and anonymity in his home town of Detroit to-well, surprisingly modest fortune...
Leonard's victory now confirms him as a remarkable champion. He is a strange mix for a fighter, a combination of peerless skills and yearnings to transcend the brutal arena in which he displays them. When he returned from Montreal in 1976, he vowed not to be a professional fighter, preferring to go to college. But the endorsements that he had hoped would support him after his ballyhooed triumph never materialized-white athletes end up on Wheaties boxes, he bitterly asserted, blacks do not. So he took to the ring. For years, he counted his money and waited...