Sugar Ray Leonard
Chronology
| 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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