JC Chavez comments on Roberto Duran?

No, but I'm sure if I joined the Spanish speaking world, I'd be privy to a lot of unedited and interesting comments I don't get now. I often wonder how poorly translated things I do hear are.

 

On "Latin Legends", a still-on-top Chávez matter-of-factly anoints Duran, among the Latino champions, "the best of them all".

 

I would like to know the opinioins of the Latin greats concerning one another. Like Duran's take on Monzon...or JCC's opinion of Wilfredo Gomez ...Napoles about Duran, etc.,it would be nice to understand Spanish to be privy to the many articles in the Latin press where great fighter interviews are concerned.

 

My quick translation of some tongue-in-cheek Duran Internet fare.

http://www.dealante.com/nodo.php?nodoid=20081

Q: Julio César Chávez or you. Who is better?
DURAN: I’d break him with my left alone. The only one I can’t hang with is my mom. She gets to whipping me and I’m off and running.

Q: Sugar Ray Leonard is…
DURAN: He’s got technique but on the inside he’s a tame chicken. He doesn’t open up in danger.

Q: And Oscar De la Hoya?
A shooting star. Made moolah and let it all hang out. Thinks he’s a pretty boy.

Q: And Don King?
DURAN: Between Bob Arum and him, I’ll take him. Bob Arum speaks softly but won’t give you a dime. Don King curses your mother, but you walk away with moolah.

Q: Is it true that at the fight with Tommy Hearns, you kept asking how the fight was going in the dressing room?
DURAN: A tale! He shook me up…

Q: What was behind the “No más”, with Sugar Ray?
DURAN: I was sick, truly. I had liver cramps; couldn’t breathe.

Q: Are you loved more in Panama or abroad?
DURAN: Abroad. If I moved to the United States, I’d be a millionaire in three months. Over there they wanna open up restaurants, bars and gyms with me. Here they talk and do nothing.

Q: Che’s and Muhammad Ali’s movies are out. How about yours?
DURAN: But that’s all rubbish. Mine is coming soon.

Q: Who would you want to strike now?
DURAN: Mayweather. They make him out a god and he’s nobody. But I’m 58; eight broken ribs, punctured lung, broken nose…

Q: Are you no longer of stone?
DURAN: I will cease to be of stone when I die.

Q: The best Panamanian boxers today.
DURAN: Chemito [Moreno] and Pelenchín [Caballero]. But like Roberto Duran there’ll never be another. Take it to the bank. Today’s fighters look made of diapers, bubble gum. They win two little fights and they’re brainwashed into thinking they’re gonna be champions and they start clubbing and having girlfriends. I started drinking after I became champion.

Q: How many times did you enter the ring drunk?
Just once. For a female. She challenged me: said if I fought drunk she’d leave with me. And so it was.

Q: How much do you charge for a boxing lesson?
Cheap. $20 an hour. People think I’m crazy but, believe it or not, when I get serious it ain’t no jokin’.

 

Erik Morales didn't seem to know that much about boxing history. The Ring interviewed him and asked him about Mexican greats and mentioned Salvador Sanchez. Morales didn't know that Sanchez fought Azumah Nelson. Whereas Marco Antonio Barrera thought highly of Sanchez.

 

I enjoyed all of that :good

 

He der man:deal

I love reading his quotes on anyone

 

I read somewhere that Barrera said that Sanchez was the greatest Mexican fighter ever and better than Cesar Chavez

 

The man is a legend no doubt about that.

 

:good:good Great quotes.
Man 20$ an hour for boxing lessons from Duran:shock: What a bargain where do i sign up

Todays fighters made of bubblegum and diapers

Not surprised what he said about chavez i heard him one time say something somewhat negative about him, said he would beat up the little midgetHa they are both 5-7 but Duran insists he is way bigger.

I heard the fight with Robbie Sims that he was drinking before the fight, i wonder if thats the one he is talking about.

 

I was just going to say this. All good.

 

Barrera's top 5:

1. Sanchez
2. Chavez
3. Olivares
4. Saldivar
5. Morales

 

This is amazing!

 

That would be a pretty sweet if it actually came out.