Duran - Mosley H2H

Strength: Even
Punch Power: Even
Accuracy: Duran
Hand Speed: Mosley
Footspeed: Even
Upper Body Movement: Duran
Combination Punching: Even
Jabs: Duran
Hooks: Mosley
Uppercut: Duran
Chin: Even
Heart: Even
Technique: Duran

Duran's superior skill makes the difference.

 

I think there can be a legitimate argument which credits Duran for having a superior chin.

 

I'd just go for (far) superior defense. Mosley wouldn't have had the career he did if not for his chin, he tends to stand straight up and takes it flush on the chin most of the time.

 

Mosley never looked that strong at 154 though. Duran on the other hand hung in there with the likes of Barkley, Castro, Moore.

 

Mosley has a better chin than Duran? How would Mosley take power punches from Middleweight champions?

 

Yup. Barkley landed as flush as you could ever hope to land and he did it multiple times with his home run punch, the left hook. Not a great fighter, but he was a good puncher at 160lbs, and an old, blown up Duran took them...took them very, very well.

Have we seen Mosley being hit like that by a fighter as big and hard hitting as Barkley?

 

He might take the odd punch or two very well, but the difference between Duran and Mosley is that Mosley would take it a lot more than Duran would. If Mosley gets hit with the Barkley hook for example, he wouldn't be slipping the follow-up punches, nor would he ever be able to fight a defensive fight against Hagler.

 

Strength: Unsure

Punch Power: Duran

Accuracy: Duran

Hand Speed: Mosley

Footspeed: Duran

Upper Body Movement: Duran

Combination Punching: Duran

Jabs: Duran

Hooks: Duran

Uppercuts: Duran

Chin: unsure at lightweight, Duran more durable overall above that.

Heart: Duran

Technique: Duran


Some are quite close like Handspeed, heart and hooks, others like upperbody movement and technique are quite far apart.

 

Do you think if was strength that really gave him the advantage vs Margarito though? Looked more speed/movement to me...although I haven't watched the fight since that night.

 

Mosley was definitely stronger in the clinches. At the very least his clinching made Margarito ineffective. A big difference between the Margarito vs Cotto & Mosley fights.

How strong is Margarito though? He is a big welterweight, and obviously strong, but he had his troubles at 154 against Santos, although in his defense Santos outweighed him by a lot. I wouldn't say that Margarito would bother Duran at welterweight. I never thought of him as any better than a Gaspar Ortega for example.

Winky Wright outmuscled Mosley, though Wright again is a very big light middleweight.

 

Margarito is a poor man's sloppier Minchillo.He would probbaly do better against sluggish 154 Duran than Welter one.

I think the main difference between Mosley and Cotto, or at least the ones that fought Marg are that Cotto doesn't take more than an average shot and gives ground when he absorbs punishment.Mosley sucks it up unless he's being outclassed as well as pounded on, in which case he Tyson's it and goes through the motions.