Editing 1980 in sports (section)

==[[Boxing]]==
* March 14–22 members of the United States Olympic boxing team died in a plane crash near [[Warsaw, Poland]]
* June 20- [[Roberto Durán]] defeats [[Sugar Ray Leonard]] by a 15-round decision to win [[boxing]]'s [[World Boxing Council|WBC]] world Welterweight title.
* August 2- [[Thomas Hearns]] defeats [[José Cuevas (boxer)|José "Pipino" Cuevas]] by a knockout in round 2 to win boxing's [[World Boxing Association|WBA]] world Welterweight title and [[Yasutsune Uehara]] knocks out [[Samuel Serrano]] in round six to win the WBA's world Jr. Lightweight title in [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]]
* In [[Cincinnati]], [[Aaron Pryor]] defeats [[Antonio Cervantes]] by a knockout in round four to win the WBA's world Jr. Welterweight title.
* October 2- [[Larry Holmes]] defeats [[Muhammad Ali]] by a knockout in round eleven to retain boxing's WBC world Heavyweight title, in what would be Ali's last world title bout.
* November 25- In ''[[No Más Fight|The No Más Fight]]'', in [[New Orleans]], Louisiana, [[Sugar Ray Leonard]] recovers the WBC's world Welterweight championship with an eight-round technical knockout of [[Roberto Durán]].