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When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid it's my socializing weight.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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Sugar Ray Leonard
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
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Wilmington
North Carolina
Ray Charles Leonard
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