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Sugar Ray has no regrets about retirement
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United Press International
BALTIMORE — World wel
terweight champion Sugar Ray
Leonard says his retirement is
definite and he has “no regrets”
about ending a career that
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earned him almost $40 million
and two world championships.
“No way I’m going to
change,” Leonard said. “There’s
a lot of people who think I’m
going to get back into the ring.
I’ll prove them wrong.”
speculation over his return to
the ring and a fight against Hag-
ler for the middleweight crown
— a bout that could have earned
him $20 million.
Mike Trainer, Leonard’s
manager, said the champion
may have “run out of chal
lenges.”
box again,” she said. “He’s got a
million and one things he can
do.”
Leonard said he decided to
retire only moments before
speaking to, among other fans,
Marvin Hagler, Muhammad Ali
and Ken Norton Tuesday night
at the Civic Center.
“(It) would be one of the
greatest fights in boxing his
tory,” Leonard said. “But that,
unfortunately, won’t happen.”
“I didn’t make the decision
until tonight,” the champion
said. “I didn’t feel the electricity.
I have no regrets whatsoever.”
His decision ended months of
Leonard underwent success
ful surgery in May to repair a
partially detached retina in his
left eye. Leonard said his vision
has returned to normal and Dr.
Ronald Michels, the ophthalmo
logist who performed the
surgery, gave him the freedom
to make his own choice.
Trainer said Hagler turned
down $7 million to fight
Leonard. He also claimed Alexis
Arguello and Aaron Pryor, who
go at it Friday night in Miami, do
not want to face Leonard.
“No one was really falling
over themselves to light him,”
Trainer said.
The champion’s decision
pleased most of the estimated
7,000 fans, and especially his
wife, Juanita.
“I definitely don’t want him to
In his career, Leonard used
his enormous skills to become a
consummate boxer. In 33 pro
fessional fights, he lost only to
Roberto Duran, a 15-round
unanimous decision in Montreal
on June 20, 1980. He avenged
that loss five months later with
an eighth-round technical
knockout in New Orleans when
Duran quit late in the round.
Leonard gained undisputed
claim to the world welterweight
crown with a 14th-round TKO
over Thomas Hearns on Sept.
16, 1981. The fight ejj
Leonard $ 12 million, the
purse paid to one fighter.
Three weeks before asj
doled title defense on Mu
against Roger Stall
Leonard noticed thevisioiii
lef t eye was blurred.
On May 7, a Buffalo
discovered a tear in the
Two days later Michels
formed successful surgery
Leonard, who proclaii
ter winning the Olympic
medal in 1976, “Thisism]
fight,” scored 16 TKOs,
knockouts and nine di
and was not knockeddow
professional career.
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NFLPA threatens Saints’ Erxleben
United Press International
NEW YORK — The NFL
Players Association, which has
filed unfair labor practice
charges against the Manage
ment Council claiming the own
ers have not bargained in good
faith, has been hit with charges
that it “threatened, restrained
and coerced” an outspoken un
ion member.
The NFLMC filed unfair
labor practice charges T uesday
on the 50th day of the players’
strike, stemming from reports
that union representatives
allegedly threatened New
Orleans’ player representative
Russell Erxleben.
The charge stated that union
President Gene Upshaw and
Elvin Bethea of the Houston
Oilers were among those who
“threatened, restrained and
coerced” Erxleben, who has cri
ticized the union’s conduct. The
NFLPA has denied the threats.
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Part of a statement from the
NFLMC said: “Today, Erxleben
admitted he was the player men
tioned in the published reports
as having been threatened with
bodily harm because of his critic
ism of the union.”
The statement said Erxleben
told the New Orleans Times-
Picayune: “I have received
threats, indirectly from several
sources, saying (NFLPA execu
tive director) Ed Garvey would
have my leg broken and all this
stuff.”
Jim Miller, spokesman for the
owners, said Tuesday no new
negotiating sessions are planned
at this time.
“If they say there are pros
pects, we don’t know what
they’re saying, because we’re not
going to be there,” he said.
The eighth week of the season
officially was lost Tuesday with
the NFL announcing no games
will be played this weekend.
In another development,
in
Garvey claimed all 28 team
jected management’s prof
to end the strike, da
announced acceptances!
the Saints, Oilers and
Angeles Rams. The unions
contended those three n
were not fully informedoi
proposal, and their manyi
tions concerning theofferii
ence constituted a vote
approval.
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of it, they posed questions
required good hard col
bargaining,” Garvey said.
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nati, Minnesota and Demi
have not polled their plavi
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HOUSTON — Houston
Coach Del Harris is optimistic
about the future of the Rockets,
and he says practice is the
answer to the team’s losing di
lemma.
“Our team just needs to con
tinue to practice and w'ork hard
to get used to each other and run
our offense,” Harris said Tues
day night after the Rockets’ lop
sided 119-91 loss to the Phoenix
Suns.
“We are getting HJUsl
game, but we must
more patience and passiffi
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