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When Leonard won the WBC welterweight crown, Hearns's manager, Emmanuel Stewart, asked Dundee for a shot at the title. Dundee told him to first get the other half of the title--the WBA half-owned by Pipino Cuevas. That was a good idea, but Cuevas wanted no part of Hearns either. Finally, the WBA ordered Cuevas to give Hearns a shot. It was set for August 1980, a few months after the first Leonard-Duran fight...
...WBC WELTER WEIGHT...
Sugar Ray Leonard won an eight-round technical knockout to regain his WBC crown from Roberto Duran in New Orleans' Superdome last night. Duran subsequently announced his retirement from boxing...
...reign of the Greatest ended once and for all last night, as Larry Holmes successfully defended his WBC heavyweight title with a 11th round technical knockout over threetime champion Muhammad...