Sugar Ray Leonard Reveals His #1 Key to Boxing

What's up guys? Leslie Robbins here for Young Hollywood in the ring with six-time World Champion, Olympic gold medalist, the legend Mr. Sugar Ray Leonard. Thank you so much.

Thank you. A key is looking good. That's all that matters. That's all that matters. Looking good.

So take the heels off. Take the heels off. Okay. We're taking the heels off. Put your guards up. Let's see your guards.

These guards? These guards. Hands up. Hands up.

Oh, okay. No, no, this. Okay. We gotta do it this way. Okay, so this is, this is called the jab, right? Jab. Jab, jab, jab.

Well, that's one. Two. Okay, ready? One, two. Attitude. Cannot punch. You got short conviction.

So it's about attitude. It's not so much the physical component.

It's the physical. No, no, it's all, it's all of those things. It encompasses all of those things. We're standing in a ring. In the middle of Santa Monica, in the Loews Hotel, Ocean View. This, you don't see this too often. No. Actually, you don't see it at all, except tonight.

Big night for you and your charity, you're bringing awareness to pediatric diabetes.

Type 1, type 2. It's been eight years. We, my wife and I started the, started the foundation. And it's about giving back, it's about making a difference in someone else's life. I've made a huge impact in this ring. Now I want to make an impact outside the ring. My father has diabetes. My friends, it's very personal to me. And we are looking to knock out diabetes. You got to feel it, you got to feel it, you got to feel it. Never tighten. That's what we'll be tighten. Okay. You want speed. And speed nullifies everything. So when I was boxing, I had a, I had a lot of speed. So I had a major advantage over all my opponents. It's going to get hard.

Got it. Got it. What you, what you. You just had a birthday. I'm not gonna say hello.

I'm 61. I'm 61.

You're aging backwards. I mean, are you still doing your boxing routine, the workout routine?

It's a combination of everything, I believe. It's, it's from genetics to working out, I love to work out. Attitude, giving back, making a difference in someone's life, make us someone smile.

Talk about your workout routine now.

I do things in moderation. I don't really lift weights too much. I do, although I do reps. I do sit-ups and push-ups and things of that nature. But I, I, I love, I love cardio. I love running. I love just getting out there, you know, getting it going.

What about getting it going? Blood pumping, you like that?

I jump rope a little bit. Yeah.

So many people, millions of people around the world look up to you. What do you look up to?

My father. I turned professional because my dad back in 1976 went into a coma. We had no money and I turned to boxing, professional boxing to make fast money to pay the bills. My father's still kicking around. He'll be 95 in June. So, boxing is pretty special.

You're tearing up.

Oh yeah, it's I nearly I nearly lost my father a couple of uh, a couple weeks ago. And uh, he's okay now. He, he, well, you know, he's okay. Tips? I, first of all, I, I never really used pads in my, during my career. Maybe once out of my entire career boxing career. Don't reach. Stop. Think about sneaking up. And do you hit at the same time? Yes. Got it. Two. That's like a one, two. Yeah. Ah, now that's good. That's good. That's good. That's good. Oh, give me a five. One. One, two. One, two. One, two, three. Okay. One. Oh, oh, you put it up. Can't think. Don't think. Don't think. It's all, it's all intuitive. One, two. One, two, three. One, two, three. One, two, three. She has potential.