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The relentlessness Pryor displayed against Arguello created the ultimate modern boxing near-miss. Despite Pryor coming up while Leonard, Duran, and Hearns fought at welterweight, the tenacious junior welterweight did not score a fight with any of them as a pro. While prior Leonard-Pryor negotiations broke down over low offers to the less famous fighter, the two reached an agreement to vie for Leonard s welterweight belt in 1982. Leonard soon suffering a detached retina in a tune-up fight threw off those plans. Hawk moved on to Arguello later that year, but Leonard s first retirement took a fight with boxing s star of the moment off the table, altering Pryor s career.
When and why you started boxing:
I was 13 years old when I first started boxing. I’d always enjoyed watching the sport. My friends and I wanted to give it a go, thinking that it’d make us ‘hard’! But they all bottled it and I ended up going to the gym on my own. The rest is history!
Favourite all-time fighter:
Best fight you’ve seen:
That’s a difficult one. I’d say that my two favourite fights to watch are Marco Antonio Barrera vs Erik Morales I and Diego Corrales vs Jose Luis Castillo I.
Personal career highlight:
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On This Day: Juan Manuel Marquez defeats the great Marco Antonio Barrera
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Juan Manuel Marquez put his name back on the map after Indonesian nightmare, wrote Claude Abrams from ringside in 2007
GOOD things come to those who wait and Lord knows Juan Manuel Marquez has been waiting to announce himself to the world.
He had, of course, held Manny Pacquiao to a draw in 2004, but then lost on points two years later in Indonesia to WBA featherweight champion Chris John.
However, his unanimous and deserved 12-round points win over Marco Antonio Barrera before 8,127 fans at the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Hotel on March 17, 2007 made up for those disappointments.