The new media king was Sugar Ray Leonard, the gold medal winner at the Montreal Olympics in 1976. Sugar Ray had other’s in the lower weight divisions that made the non-heavyweight fights the glamour events of the eighties, one of whom was Marvelous Marvin Hagler. In a matchup that many say was 5 years in the making, Sugar Ray won a split decision that might be the most controversial of its time. Depending on who you asked, either Hagler won by a landslide or Sugar Ray won by a landslide. Either way, Leonard floated around the ring, while waiting for Hagler to throw those ferocious punches at him, prompting Hagler to tell his opponent to ­­”fight like a man”, and Sugar Ray to tell his opponent to “punch instead of push” and to later tell the media: “People said I lost the zip, but my hands are just as fast as they were when I was 20 years old!”.