Sugar Ray Leonard is regarded as one of the greatest pound-for-pound fighters of all time, so Oscar De La Hoya putting a rising star in the same company as his fellow five-division world champion is high praise indeed.<\/p>\n
Leonard claimed world honours at welterweight, super-welterweight, middleweight, super-middleweight and light-heavyweight, becoming just the second fighter in history to capture belts in five different weight divisions<\/a>, just days after Thomas Hearns became the first.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Wilmington-born fan-favourite is also deemed by many to be the best of the legendary \u2018Four Kings\u2019, due to the fact that he is the only member to hold a win over all three of his rivals \u2013 Hearns, Roberto Duran and Marvin Hagler.<\/p>\n All of the above and more mean Leonard is held in extremely high regard amongst boxing fans, but De La Hoya told Fight Hub TV<\/a> why his fighter, Floyd Schofield, reminds him of the North Carolina sensation.<\/p>\n \u201cLucas Bahdi, you can\u2019t look over him, he has got a lot of amateur experience which obviously makes me feel and believe [that he could do it]. I have studied him, he is a hard worker, he has got\u00a0 great work ethic inside of the ring and he crosses all of his \u2019T\u2019s\u2019 and dots all of his \u2018I\u2019s\u2019, but he hasn\u2019t been in there with a \u2018Kid Austin\u2019 [Schofield].\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cKid Austin is a beast who just has it all. The speed, the power, the endurance but most importantly \u2013 and I have said this before \u2013 Kid Austin reminds me of Sugar Ray Leonard because of his will to win.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI really feel like Kid Austin will try and beat you at any cost, that is what I love about him.\u201d<\/p>\n