| 1956 |
Born May 17 in Wilmington, North Carolina |
| 1960 |
Moves with family to District of Columbia |
| 1967 |
Moves with family to Seat Pleasant, Maryland |
| 1968 |
Moves with family to Palmer Park, Maryland |
| 1970 |
Begins boxing after school at Palmer Park Recreation Center |
| 1971 |
Enters national competition with AAU |
| 1972 |
Wins Golden Gloves lightweight championship; joins AAU International team |
| 1973 |
Turns down $5,000 to fight professionally; fathers a son, Ray Jr., on November 22 |
| 1977 |
Makes professional boxing debut against Luis "the Bull" Vega on February 5 |
| 1979 |
Takes WBC welterweight title from Wifredo Benitez on November 30, by TKO in the fifteenth round |
| 1980 |
Marries Juanita Wilkinson on January 19; loses WBC welterweight title to Roberto Duran on June 20; regains WBC welterweight title in a rematch on November 25, when Duran cedes the fight in the eighth round |
| 1981 |
Takes WBA junior middleweight title from Ajub Kalube on June 21 by TKO in the ninth round; unifies the welterweight belts by defeating Thomas Hearns on September 16 by TKO in the fourteenth round |
| 1982 |
Retires after suffering a detached retina |
| 1987 |
Takes the middleweight title from Marvin Hagler by TKO in the ninth round |
| 1988 |
Takes the WBC super middleweight and light heavyweight titles from Donny Lalonde in November |
| 1989 |
Rematch with Hearns ends in a draw |
| 1990 |
Divorces Wilkinson |
| 1991 |
Loses to Terry Norris in a title bout for the junior middleweight championship on February 9; retires with record of 36-2-1 and 25 KOs |
| 1993 |
Marries Bernadette Robi on August 20 |
| 1997 |
Loses to Hector "Macho" Camacho by TKO in the fifth round; is inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame on June 15 |
| 2001 |
Establishes his own promotions firm, Sugar Ray Leonard Boxing, Inc. |
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