This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/1/2012
Here are three wonderful souvenir programs from three historic fights by Sugar Ray Leonard, all from the personal collection of Angelo Dundee. The first is from the Nov. 30, 1979 fight when Leonard snatched the Welterweight crown from Benitiz with a TKO in Round 15. The 81/2-by-11-inch program presents in Nr-Mt condition, upended only by a barely perceptible 2-inch crease on the front cover. On page 3 of the 24-page program, Dundee signed in blue Sharpie, adding the inscription "My Son's Program." Program No. 2 is from Leonard's June 1980 unsuccessful title defense against Roberto Duran, an excellent condition program jostled only by creasing to the lower left corner cover and inside pages from the 81/2-by-11-inch 32-page program. Dundee signed in blue Sharpie on the front cover: "Great Nite, Bad Loss, Got Him Next Time, Angelo Dundee." The historic bout that handed Leonard his first professional loss was held at Olympic Stadium in Montreal; the program is printed in both French and English. The final program is from Leonard's 1981 14th Round TKO of Thomas Hearns. The program is 9 1/4-by-12-inchs, printed on black paper stock with reversed white type throughout the text, which also features dramatic, nearly full-bleed color photography on every page. The program presents in Ex-Mt condition and includes a Dundee autograph on the front cover in silver Sharpie, along with notations "My Son's Program" and "Great Nite, We Won."
LOA's from the Dundee Family and PSA/DNA.