Would Roberto Duran Go Through Floyd Mayweather Jr's Resume Undefeated?

Oh it's the most spectacular and complete offensive performance of Duran's career IMO.

 

So do you believe prime Chico or Canelo compare to prime JMM? I certainly do not.

 

Yes.

 

A slightly past prime EM is far better than a prime Chico IMO.

 

Wow, okay. Guess that's the end of that then. Canelo's full tale is yet to be written but JMM is on another level from Chico IMO.

 

At the times when these guys fought either opponent, I don't see how JMM was greater than Chico. Chico was running through everyone at that time(emphasis on at that time). Two different fighters, two completely different styles.

Alvarez, we will see in due time.

 

Right, that's why it's such an interesting question. But I've just assumed that he'd be following the same time line. So I'll have to get that clarified.

:good

 

But who was he running through? Angel Manfredy was probably his best win at the time he fought Floyd. Corrales was a very limited and defensively irresponsible fighter who had huge power and heart. IMO it's a gulf in class between Chico and JMM.

To each his own. I think we should probably end the discussion here. If we can't agree that prime JMM is better than prime Chico we probably aren't going to make much more progress.

 

My opinion, styles do make fights and if we could make these fights at 130 a defensive nightmare like Chico can't dent Duran's chin and doesn't see round 4. JMM sees the final bell and loses in the neighborhood of 9-3.

 

of the 78 fights duran had how many were title fights?:deal floyd is 26-0 in title fights duran 16-6:deal so duran can pad his record with bums but floyd consistently fought the champions of each weight class from 130-154 :deal and won them ALL!!!!!

 

Who did JMM beat before fighting Pacquiao? JMM is better as far as skill than Corrales, that's not the question. As I mentioned, they are different fighters with different styles. But a guy who was top 3 P4P at the time is probably pretty good. You making it sound like he was a bum compared to JMM... not so.

 

how many titles, and by extension, title fights were there?

 

still curious, what accusation?

 

Well at the time JMM was the most avoided man at 126 without question. EM and MAB famously wanted no part of him. Styles do make fights and Corrales has a miserable style to ever survive against Duran. He was a huge power puncher with very slow hands at 130, a suspect defense and chin, but great heart. It took the hardest WW puncher in history in Hearns, in a bout contested at 154, to crack Duran's chin. But Corrales could do it at 130? He doesn't match Tommy's P4P power and that's not even taking into account the monumental gap in skill and P4P hand speed between the 2. He would get blown out every time in my book. It's a style Duran would feast on. JMM loses too, but you can at least see how JMM makes the final bell and does it without being shut out.

Do you think Corrales beats JMM prime for prime at 130? I think JMM wins 9 times out of 10. Not in the spectacular style Floyd managed, but it's an easy fight to call for me.

I don't think for a second Corrales was a bum. He was very very good, but he had his limitations. The P4P rankings are and forever will be laughably fallible and skewed towards fighters who campaign in the US and Western Europe. Broner was recently top 5. Currently JMM, Bradley and Froch are enjoying thoroughly unwarranted time in the top 10 while fighters like Yamanaka, Inoue, and Uchiyama are walking the earth.

What surprises me is that you are focusing on Chico instead of Genaro, who was a much tougher opponent IMO and would have a much better chance of at least going the distance with Duran.

 

He would have ducked them all or wait until they fought each other and were former shells of themselves.

Roberto Duran would KO everyone that took Fraud Runawayther to the 12th round.