"Roberto Durán vs Sugar Ray Leonard" for the WBC Welterweight Championship

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Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Roberto Durán, billed as The Brawl in Montreal, is for the WBC and The Ring welterweight championship. The bout takes place on June 20, 1980 at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, Canada.

Leonard and Durán are two of the top fighters in the sport, Leonard was perfect 27–0 and had captured the WBC welterweight title the previous December after knocking out future hall-of-famer Wilfred Benítez. Durán had just completed a six-year run as lightweight champion before moving up to welterweight where he compiled an 8–0 record before facing Leonard.

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