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====Rematch==== Hagler requested a rematch but Leonard chose to retire again (the third of five high-profile retirements announced by Leonard during his professional boxing career), having announced it beforehand.<ref>{{cite news|last=Winderman|first=Ira|title=After A Year's Prefight, Bell Tolls For These|url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1987-04-05/sports/8701220087_1_hagler-and-leonard-marvelous-marvin-hagler-fight|access-date=December 16, 2014|work=Sun-Sentinel|location=Fort Lauderdale|date=April 5, 1987|archive-date=November 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161112151458/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1987-04-05/sports/8701220087_1_hagler-and-leonard-marvelous-marvin-hagler-fight|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="champsuk.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.champsuk.com/i-543/sugar-ray-leonard-post-fight-press-conference-after-defeating-marvin-hagler-original-wire-photograph-.html |title=Sugar Ray Leonard Post Fight Press Conference After Defeating Marvin Hagler |publisher=Champsuk.com |date=April 6, 1987 |access-date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> Fourteen months following their fight, Hagler retired from boxing on June 13, 1988, after watching WBA middleweight champion [[Sumbu Kalambay]] prevail over his brother, Robbie Sims, via unanimous decision.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hagler Retires From Ring|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/13/sports/hagler-retires-from-ring.html|access-date=April 21, 2021|work=The New York Times|location=New York City|date=June 13, 1988}}</ref> Hagler declared that he was "tired of waiting" for Leonard to grant him a rematch. Just a month succeeding Hagler's retirement, Leonard announced another boxing comeback to fight against WBC [[light heavyweight]] champion [[Donny Lalonde]] at the {{convert|168|lb|kg|adj=on}} [[super middleweight]] limit. In 1990, Leonard finally offered Hagler a rematch which reportedly would have earned him $15 million, but he declined. By then, Hagler had settled down into a new life as an actor in Italy and was now uninterested in his past boxing life.<ref name="sportsillustrated.cnn.com">{{cite magazine|first=Rick|last=Telander|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1136738/index.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100708234500/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1136738/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 8, 2010 |title=With Friends Like These, Who Needs Sugar Ray? |magazine=Sports Illustrated |date=July 2, 1990 |access-date=May 16, 2014}}</ref><ref name=carter>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/espn/classic/news/story?page=add_hagler_marvin |title=You Look Marvelous |first=Bob |last=Carter |work=ESPN Sport|date=September 26, 2006 |access-date=May 16, 2014}}</ref> Hagler said "A while ago, yeah, I wanted him so bad, but I'm over that."<ref name="sportsillustrated.cnn.com"/> At the 1994 [[Consumer Electronics Show]], Hagler and Leonard had a mock rematch by playing against each other in the video game ''[[Boxing Legends of the Ring]]'' and claimed that an actual rematch was being planned, though it never happened.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Famous Boxers Duke it Out|magazine=[[GamePro]]|issue=57|publisher=[[International Data Group|IDG]]|date=April 1994|pages=176}}</ref>
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