Leonard/Duran III - Is It Overlooked?

My comparison was done on speed, nothing else. As you said "Simply put, the slower the opponent, the better he does. The faster the opponent, the worse he does"

Hagler would've had a tougher time with Hearns had he fought in a similar manner to how he did with Duran, which also ties in with my previous take on "Most fighters will have an easier time with slower fighters than faster fighters. Although punch resistance, style, strategy, power, and many other things come into the equation"

Yep, you said already.

 

It's me by the sounds of things on another thread. I'm difficult to understand with a lot of what I type, apparantley.

 

"Leonard vs. Duran 3" sucked the bone......... For all the PPV hype, it PISSED me off like "Michael Spinks vs. Dwight M. Qawi" on HBO earlier in '83........ I expected some goddamn fireworks, but, I got duds instead.... WTF??

MR.BILL

P.S.

The '99 dud featuring "DLH vs. Trinidad" also was a major pisser offer.....

 

To Duran fans it would have been and they would have gloated and used this as proof that Duran was so great, yet Roberto lost in a easy decision to Ray. Yet Duran fans never ever admit that Duran lost to Hagler/Hearns/Leonard/Benitez.. All the legends of the 1980s. And Duran makes up excuses for all the losses to the legends.

 

You never saw anything resembling Roberto Duran step in the ring post Barkley.

Duran took the Leonard fight purely for the money, he was even friendly towards his sweetness in the build up, that was not Duran!

He was pasty and bloated in the ring that night and just not prepared to do anything that could win him the fight.

Leonard was skittish and uninterested in going toe to toe, I suspect that was because in sparring perhaps he was starting to realize his chin had gone.

But they turned out to be good tactics as Duran was just going though the motions and apart form the cut Leonard won with ease.

Duran partied hard after last hurrah against Barkley, and that was it, no mas.

 

Actually, Roberto Duran showed up looking lean and seemingly ready to rumble at 158 pounds for Leonard in 1989..... However, Duran was very slobbish looking in his August of '89 exhibition...... But Duran managed to lose about 30 pounds by Decemeber and at least looked like a fighter.... Yet, all the fire was gone....... The "Rubber" match stunk... I hardly ever review that tape.....

MR.BILL

 

Duran was ghost white and lacked definition, I suspect his training consisted of beer and sauna, he was just not interested in that fight.

Duran always could lose the weight (until the 90s), but it did not mean he was in any shape for such a big match up, mentally or physically.

 

:huh

Is this Hearns I you're talking about? Rooster was referring to Norris.

 

Yes.

 

Why?

 

Conteh. Cheers mate. I need spectacles. I thought the thread was "Leonard-Duran II" Thats what happens when you glance at something too quickly. Holy ****, hands up with this one.

:yikes

 

It's ok mate. Don't you realise that Red likes to mention 'King Terry' on virtually every post. I thought everyone knew this. :hey

 

Cheers for pointing that out mate. I really do feel like a complete idiot. I must have been half asleep while reading that then replying. God knows how Rooster never picked up on it. The following year of Leonard-Duran II was Hearns of course. However, Rooster was wrong on the following year.

Leonard-Duran III (1989)

Leonard-Norris (1991)

 

Well, wasn't one end of 89, the other at the beginning of 91? If so, a year's passable. It doesn't matter though, really.