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Oscar De La Hoya says current fighter reminds him of Sugar Ray Leonard: “He’s a beast”

Sugar Ray Leonard is regarded as one of the greatest pound-for-pound fighters of all time, so Oscar De La Hoya putting a rising star in the same company as his fellow five-division world champion is high praise indeed.

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