Two of the most prominent and celebrated athletes in the world, Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard came together to contest the $100million SuperFight on April 6, 1987 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. From Frank Sinatra to U2, Joan Collins to Whoopi Goldberg, the stars were drawn to ringside by the huge box-office appeal of the blue-collar, dominant world middleweight champion facing his nemesis, the charismatic and flamboyant Sugar Ray, who was coming out of virtually five years of retirement. Drawing on his deep reservoir of nerve, outstanding technique and a strategy which Budd Schulberg – who provided Marlon Brando with the immortal line, ‘I coulda been a contender’ – called a compound optical illusion, Leonard won on points. It was boxing’s greatest comeback, but to this day the judges’ decision remains bitterly contested and not merely by the protagonists. But the story of The SuperFight is much more than the story of the figh