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Mayweather-Pacquiao 'beyond money' - Leonard

Boxing great Sugar Ray Leonard has called on Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao to step into the ring for the sake of the sport.
Leonard, who won world titles at five different weights categories and was named boxer of the decade for the 1980s, believes that the legacies of both fighters will also be tainted if they cannot arrange the bout.
American Mayweather and Pacquiao of the Philippines are regarded as the two best pound-for-pound fighters in the world right now, but negotiations have repeatedly broken down.
"More than damaging to boxing, it's damaging to their legacy," said Leonard. "This is for history, for people to say 'I remember when'. It's beyond money."
Like Leonard, Mayweather has held world titles at five weight divisions, with Pacquiao a seven-weight world champion. Negotiations collapsed in 2010 when Pacquiao rejected calls for random pre-fight drug testing from the Mayweather camp, with disputes over splitting the purse proving to be terminal.
The details do not matter to Leonard, who fought in a golden era that featured fellow boxing legends Wilfred Benitez, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns and Marvin Hagler and is frustrated by the lack of urgency to make such a bout happen, especially with the sport in need of a fillip.
"Boxing is always taking black eyes, but this is the longest boxing has taken a black eye for," said Leonard. "From the 1990s back to the 1960s, there were great fighters, there was an abundance of talent. Now you just hear about Pacquiao and Mayweather.
"They are amazing guys who could have dealt with the guys in our era, but they've got to do what's best for themselves, and I don't mean financially.
"When someone comes up to you and says, 'you know what, I was with my grandfather when you fought Tommy Hearns' or 'when you lost that fight to Duran, my dad cried', those are special moments."
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