Prime Tito Trinidad vs Roberto Duran 147

So was Cuevas.:think

 

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in the first round of their first two fights by a
LEFT HOOK.

Almost did a 180 when

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yapped him with a
LEFT HOOK.

I am willing to bet that you will still not agree but, it will not stand on any facts so it will be ignorable. Prove me wrong. Standing by.

 

You are right aboyt the speed difference but, Duran was getting hit in there by Leonard and a few time he was hit really hard. Leonard was hitting Duran body and giving as well as he took. Leonard was not just swing at thin air in there.

Trinidad is not a better in fighter than Leonard in any sense but but he hit threw short and quick left hook at close range and Duran could be hit by these. If he was it would be some of the hardest punches he has ever taken.

This could pose an obstacle and I think that is way in the 3rd DeJesus fight he chose to box of his back foot instead of rushing in. It was a complete revolution of his style for basically that on fight...because the Puerto Rican hook was his nemensis.

Tito left hook is much harder and faster than DeJesus'.

 

That would be an interesting fight. Trinidad-Cuevas.

 

I agree with the rest of it, but not the underlined.

 

The best Tito and the Duran who fought sugar in Montreal...Duran would ko Tito.

 

True but Tommy Hearns KO'd him with 1 shot.

 

Tito isn't Hearns, and whether or not that would happen if they ever fought again is anyone's guess. I find that posters tend to assume that after watching one fight of two fighters any hypothetical fights unfold in the exact same manner. But in reality that's simply not the case, otherwise Lewis wouldn't have starched Rahman in the rematch.

 

Yeah, but if you could have read some of the things the Tito fans posted a few years back. It was pretty crazy, they were impossible to talk to rationally (this was pre-Hopkins).

 

Fvcking Whoopee.

So out of 119 fights you have given 3 examples of Duran being caught with meaningful left hooks.

Yep you REALLY proved your point of his susceptibility to them there, didn't you?:roll:

 

I don't think it is a matter of agreeing, or disagreeing. It is generally recognised that Hagler pulled the fight out of the bag in the last 2 rounds.

 

Hearns hit him over and over for 2 rounds. Where was the one punch knockout?

 

I agree. Hagler fought dumb and uninspired, and then pulled it out by activity. Not really hard for him, just a badly fought fight.

 

You said Duran was in front up to then.
I disagree.
Duran got away with bluffing in a smoke and mirrors act, his marvellous head movement ensured that he took most of the steam out of Hagler's big shots.
A less than emphatic performance by a great middlweight titlist but Hagler won it, and before the 10th,imo.

"What anyone thinks is irrelevant".Ring a bell?

 

this is like Maidana and Floyd. Who won the fight? And the great Duran was outclassed by Benitez a year and a half before the Hagler fight and knocked out by Hearns 7 months later. He didn't beat Benitez,Hagler or Hearns.