CINCINNATI — Cincinnati native and all-time boxing great Aaron "The Hawk" Pryor was honored by friends and family at a party recognizing what would have been his 70th birthday Monday.

LaRosa's Founder Buddy LaRosa shook hands and chatted with people in the tight crowd gathered inside his Westwood location, as everyone watched old fights of the man Buddy once managed.

Pryor's long-time friend Daryl Jones remembered fighting him in Milwaukee as Pryor attempted a late-career comeback.

"Everyone was saying, 'You going in there to win?' I said, 'Yeah, I'm going in there to win. Then I might be a champion,'" Jones told us through a chuckle.

Celebrating boxing legend Aaron 'The Hawk' Pryor

Pryor was the WBA and IBF Junior Welterweight champion during his illustrious professional career, and

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