Video: Sugar Ray Leonard on Hagler, “Why wouldn’t I want the rematch?”

“He went away; he packed his bags and went away. Why wouldn’t I want the rematch? A fight that close, I would say yeah.

Put it this way, it’s been 37 years. It would have been a great fight; I wish we would have fought, I wish there was a rematch.”

Sugar Ray Leonard explaining why a rematch with Hagler never took place at the red carpet for the third annual Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame induction dinner gala.

Sugar Ray Leonard at the red carpet for the third annual Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame induction dinner gala.