Original photograph of Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns, 1981

by Thomas Hearns Sugar Ray Leonard, Dave Pearl, Richard

$325 · Offered by Royal Books

New York: United Press International, 1981. Vintage press photograph of The Showdown, the professional boxing match between Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns on September 16, 1981. Printed mimeo snipe and United Press International stamp on the verso.Leonard would emerge the world welterweight champion after 14 rounds. The duo would meet again in a rematch eight years later, on June 12, 1989. From the archive of the PIX Agency, an

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