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Carlos De Leon a.k.a  Sugar De Leon (May 3, 1959)
is a Puerto Rican former boxing|boxer who made
history by becoming the first Cruiserweight to win
the world title twice.  Subsequently, he kept
breaking his own record for the most times as
Cruiserweight champion by regaining it twice more.

De Leon, a native of Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico,
first won a world title when faced with World
Boxing Council|WBC world champion Marvin Camel on
November 25 1980, at the undercard of Sugar Ray
Leonard and Roberto Duran's second fight in New
Orleans.  De Leon outpointed Camel over 15 rounds.
 After he knocked out Camel in 8 in a rematch,
countryman Ossie Ocasio won the World Boxing
Association|WBA world title, becoming the second
pair of Puerto Ricans to share world titles in the
same division at the same time, after Alfredo
Escalera and Samuel Serrano had achieved the feat
in the 1970s at Jr. Lightweight.  De Leon lost his
title in a shocking upset to former Gerry Cooney
victim St. Gordon by a knockout in round 2 at
Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland in 1982, and won a
comeback fight versus former world Heavyweight
champion Leon Spinks by a  knockout in round six
in 1983.  After that, he and Gordon boxed a
rematch in Las Vegas, and De Leon dropped Gordon
once in the first round and once in the twelfth,
en route to a unanimous decision win in a history
making bout: De Leon had now become the first
boxer to win the world Cruiserweight title twice. 

He defended his title against Alvaro Yaqui Lopez
by a knockout in four at San Jose, California, and
with decisions over Anthony Davis (boxer)|Anthony
Davis, Jose Maria Flores Burlon, and Bashiru Ali. 
The Davis and Burlon bouts took place in Las Vegas
and the fight with Ali was in Oakland, California.
 De Leon next lost his title in Las Vegas to
Alfonzo Ratliff by a decision.  Ratliff was in
turn beaten by Bernard Benton, who defended
against De Leon on March 22 of 1986, once again in
Las Vegas. De Leon joined the likes of Sugar Ray
Robinson and Muhammad Ali in becoming one of the
few boxers ever to win one division's world
championship at least three times, defeating
Benton by decision.  He made a couple of defenses
in Italy and then in 1988, lost his title in an
unification bout with World Boxing Association|WBA
world champion Evander Holyfield, by a knockout in
eight, also in Las Vegas.

But Holyfield soon left the division to pursue the
world Heavyweight championship, and De Leon was
left with an open door to break his own record and
win the title for a record fourth time.  He went
to London, where he beat the WBC's number 2
challenger, Sammy Steward, by a knockout in the
fourth round, breaking his own record and crowning
himself world Cruiserweight champion
once again.  This time, he held on to the title
for two years, until losing it to Massimiliano
Duran in Italy by an 11 round disqualification.

During the 1990s, De Leon ran afoul of the law a
couple of times, once being found carrying a rifle
on him.  But nowadays, he is concentrated on
helping the career of his son Carlos De Leon Jr.

==See also==

*List of famous Puerto Ricans