How do People Remember Roberto Duran?

one of the best ever. real mean fighter
would have loved to see one of his fights

 

Shame on you for this idiotic thread.

 

He'll be remembered as someone who fought fighters in their absolute pime...unlike your hero Pac...pusshead.

 

The greatest fighter of the 50 years.

 

For someone who gave so much to boxing the no mas incident should be no more than a small blemish on a otherwise stellar career.

One of the greatest p4p ever, and the definition of a true warrior.

 

He beat Leonard in the most telling and prepared bout they had, their defining fight. And he jumped two divisions to do it, AFTER a stellar career at LWt.

He fought a very competitive bout with Hagler, FOUR divisions north of his natural weight and giving up a three year age advantage.

He beat Davey Moore and Iran Barkley, both much bigger and younger men.


I rank him as one of the ten greatest fighters ever, possibly top five.

 

WTF has this thread got to do with Pacquiao!?!?!? You're ****ing OBSESSED.

 

He's my number 6 or 7. My favourite fighter OAT. His win over Leonard is the greatest win by any fighter in the televised era IMO. A modern God.

 

That was a great win for Duran... but he didn't jump two divisions to do it. Duran had already been fighting at Welterweight, and as his body was maturing he was natural for that weight.

I also don't believe that Duran ever beats SRL if Leonard doesn't fight his fight. I don't see how the first fight was the most "telling". I think that SRL simply misjudged the supposed natural size advantage just like everyone else did. In the second fight SRL showed the difference between them.

Duran had a great career, but he is very overated as an ATG. His run at lightweight wasn't the most impressive thing ever done. He didn't have many amazing opponents at lightweight. The best opponent that he faced there also beat him.

 

He was a great LW but the fact he quit can't be overlooked in such a high profile fight and quite often he gets a pass on this. I can't understand it. Another thing is people make so many excuses for him that it's sickening. He was over weight his heart wasn't in it it's bull****. Not only that he went 1-4 against SRL, Hearns and Hagler that can't be left out either. He's somewhat overrated in boxing actually but people seem to ignore it because they like him.

 

And just by that he gets overrated.

 

I couldn't agree more. SRL should be rated higher and for the life of me I don't know why he isn't rated higher than Duran.:-(

 

I meant he jumped two divisions from where he was champion. I didn't mean to imply that that was his first welterwt bout.

Logically, that's almost identical to saying

I also don't believe that Duran ever beats SRL if Duran doesn't beat Leonard.


(He DID take him out of his gameplan by getting inside his head and making him brawl more than he should have)

For me, the first fight was more telling because both men came into the Ring in peak shape and fully prepared for the fight of their lives.

(Second time around, Duran had ballooned a bit and was taking diuretics and laxatives two days before the fight, resulting in stomach cramps on the afternoon of the fight.)

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here widow. Many would say the above two sentences indicate bias.

Both are patently erroneous.

At 21, he beat Buchannan and made a dozen successful defences of his title against the best of the 70's, (and fighting another two dozen non-title fights during that six year reign. Who does that nowadays?)


And his ONLY loss was a UD to deJesus, part of a great trilogy where he won the other two parts by KO.

( A guy with 32 pro bouts at 22 might deserve one off night, especially given how he avenged the sole loss.)

 

You have got to be ****ing joking. The SRL who he defeated in Montreal would have beat the **** out of anyone at that weight post 1980. Duran is number 3 behind Robinson and the Butterfly.

Maybe, Wlad, Bernard, Oscar and Vitali could make a special trip to Canastota, and they could ask the management at the Hall of Fame if Duran left one of his old jockstraps around, and maybe between the 4 of them, they could nearly lift it.

 

definately as one of the greatest fighters ever. most people who talk of the no mas fight would probably be hard pressed to name the boxers involved, and REAL boxing fans see duran as being about much more. the man was/is a legend.