Sugar Ray Leonard vs Hector Camacho (1997)

In October 1996 the 40yearold Leonard announced that he was coming out of retirement to fight Héctor Camacho for the lightly regarded IBC Middleweight Championship Camacho a lighthitting southpaw who at 34 and as a former lightweight was also considered past his prime had a record of 6231 Leonard decided to fight Camacho after commentating on his fight with the 45 year old Roberto Duran the previous year in which Camacho had won a disputed decision which Leonard had called an early Christmas gift Leonard blamed his poor performance against Norris to lack of motivation a rib injury moving down in weight and divorce which was being litigated while he was in training It was stupid for me to fight Norris at 154 lbs Leonard said This is different Im in the best shape possible