Playboy Interview: Sugar Ray Leonard

Playboy Interview: Sugar Ray LeonardIn his November 1975 "Playboy Interview," Muhammad Ali predicted that after he retired, no fighter would ever again earn as much as $5,000,000 for a single bout, and most ring observers agreed with him. They couldn't have foreseen that boxing in America would enjoy such a tremendous resurgence that by the end of the Seventies, a welter-weight named Sugar Ray Leonard would be pulling down purses twice the size of Ali's largest.Much of the nation's hei...