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Charley Burley vs Sugar Ray Leonard. Who wins?

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We will make this fight at Jr Middlewweight and a Dream Fight.

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  1. again, limited footage of burley, makes this difficult, but despite the fact that robinson avoided him after sparring one round burley (apparently), this could be a much closer version of leonard hearns, with burley and leonard splitting rounds, but i am gonna go with leonard by close decision.


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  3. Leonard was always more comfortable at welterweight. Burley had the chin and the skills to fight anyone. Leonard had the skills and the speed to handle the best opponents. However one of the things that people always seem to forget about Charley Burley is that he had amazing adaptive abilities. He could adapt to any kind of style. So far i have only seen a few videos of Burley (only one of them complete) and in all these videos i see a different burley....sometimes he fought like a slugger, sometimes he fought like a boxer puncher sometimes he fought like a conservative counter puncher and sometimes he fought in an unorthodox manner like roy jones....what made burley so dangerous is his ability to be unpredictable. That's the reason why Ray Robinson and the others dodged him. Sugar ray Robinson had the ability to mix all the various elements of boxing into one graceful style whereas Burley had the ability to use any different style of boxing at will....moreover Burley had great power and endurance and I seriously doubt there are many welterweights that could really hurt him. Leonard is known for his speed and flashiness and his ability to handle to different kinds of opponents however he had his weaknesses. He could have lost the fight with Hagler if Hagler had focused on winning the fight instead of knocking him out...and he refused to fight hearns at middleweight because he knew he had no business fighting Hearns at that weight. Burley was very similar to hagler in terms of style they were both unrothodox and capable of using multiple styles at will. Charley however seemed to be smarter he knew when to sit back and counter punch and he knew when to go on the offensive he would not have allowed leonard to pull a "hagler" on him.

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