Sugar Ray Leonard’s fitness to fight world...

Sugar Ray Leonard’s fitness to fight world middleweight champion Marvelous Marvin Hagler April 6 came into question in the Nevada legislature.

Straying from testimony on the athletic commission’s budget, assembly ways and means committee members asked commissioners Duane Ford and Sammy Macias if they were certain that Leonard, who suffered a detached retina in a previous fight, was medically fit.

Ford assured the committee that the athletic commission shared its concerns. Leonard was in Nevada for an examination by four retina specialists, who found that the fight posed no “greater risk” to him, according to Ford.

Thursday, the assembly health and welfare committee introduced a bill that would give the commission’s medical board more autonomy in determining a fighter’s fitness.