und a way to defeat all types of boxers. He beat style type boxers, sluggers, and brawlers. Leonard shared the same trainer as his admired predecessor Muhammad Ali, Angelo Dundee. Dundee compared Leonard and Ali by saying "Ray's got the same charm, same excitement about him" ("Schwartz"). Leonard was not a slugger but and artist. Leonard was not a slugger but an artist. He brought back ideas of the "sweet science" (Schwartz). Leonard studied other boxers learning from them form and style. He watched Muhammad Ali and "Sugar" Ray Robinson, from whom he borrowed his nickname, "Sugar" (Schwartz). Leonard began his young amateur career at the age of fourteen (O'Dell 94). He won 145 out of his first 150 amateur bouts. He also won two National Golden Glove Championships, which he won back to back in 1973 and 1974. Leonard's great amateur career continued that year and into the next year as he won the Amateur Athletic Championships in 1974 and 1975. Charles Ray Leonard capped off his strong amateur career with a gold medal in the Pan American Games and a Gold medal in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada ("Sugar Ray"). After defeating Andres Aldama of Cuba for the light-welterweight gold Leonard began to "surface in the public's imagination" ("Sugar Ray"). After the Montreal Games Leonard actually intended to end his boxing career and decided to retire. Sugar Ray Leonard though would go onto lead one of the greatest careers seen in any sport.
             Leonard reversed his decision to retire and decided to enter the professional ranks at the age of twenty-one in 1977, because he was struggling for money (O'Dell 94). His intentions for entering the professional ranks were honorable however. Originally he had hoped to raise the money from endorsements and commercials after the Olympics to help aid his ailing parents and send himself to col...