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Article: Leonard: All the Answers, Exclamation Point Pending
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 24, 1987
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It is somewhat doubtful that in 1663 when those Barbados
plantation owners hired sea captain William Hilton to chart the coast
of the Carolinas they had in mind a future training campsite for
Sugar Ray Leonard. But 324 years later, it is here that Leonard has
settled in for his intended conquest of Marvelous Marvin Hagler's
world middleweight title.
Leonard, a millionaire many times over, has easily accommodated
himself and his staff to the palatial Hilton Inter-Continental Hotel
with its acres of seafront, its deep-dish carpets, a choice of
baronial dining rooms, and much else of verified snob appeal.
It is hardly the training camp of boxing's former days.
Remembered is Billy Edwards' ...