Duran V Hearns 1980

Hearns would always kill him. Just like Foreman & Frazier.

 

Hearns beats him at any weight but Duran might last the distance in this one.

 

I was just thinking about that.....the Duran that pounds Leonard....the Leonard who goes on to KO Hearns.......

Man Duran was never knocked out like that ever again even though he fought the likes of hagler and barkley.


Duran wasnt prepared for Hearns and surely didnt think he could be KO'd by anyone

both in 1980 yea what a crazy war

 

Hearns KO3

 

Yep. Hearns destroys Duran, early too.

 

This could be true.

If duran were ever to beat hearns then it would be this duran, the duran from montreal.

:good

 

I disagree. The welterweight Duran had better much sharpness, and his ability at slipping punches was in a different ballpark to the straight up and down static version who fought Hearns at light-middleweight. Leonard never had the same wingspan of Hearns, but Duran slipped and countered beautifully from longe range in Montreal. He'd would not have the same success against Hearns, who was much busier with the jab than Leonard. But Duran's all round quickness of foot and hand would take him a few rounds.

Hearns KO8.

 

Hearns by mid round knockout

 

:good

 

The Duran nuthuggers need to let this one go.

Hearns was a nightmare both physically and stylistically for Duran and I don't see Duran ever beating him.

That is unless Hearns could shrivel his 6ft 1 frame down to Lightweight then Duran would win but otherwise Hearns is too big,fast and powerful.

Hearns KO 4.

 

I've always bucked the trend on evaluating how Montreal Duran would have done against peak Hearns. Duran was in peak condition, and I believed he had the perfect style to slip underneath Tommy's shots and pound his lanky body. Duran seemed impervious when in peak condition, which he wasn't when Tommy blew him out. If he could have gotten Hearns into deep water, then I believe he could have drowned Tommy.

That Hearns could easily blow out Duran in two, yet never seriously stun Benitez is curious to me. It also seems odd that El Cholo could wear down and drop Barkley, whose best work wasn't able to faze Duran, after the Blade had flattened Hearns.

Although the vast majority on this board have not agreed with my conclusions about Hearns/Duran, that Tommy caught lightning in a bottle, I stand by that assessment. (However, I fully understand why most others feel differently about this.) The fact remains that Duran was far more elusive a target in Montreal than he was against Hearns. I think Roberto was in many respects an overconfident victim of his own success against Hagler.

I still believe that if Duran had met Hearns for a WW unification bout in the aftermath of Montreal, then he would have prevailed, being mindful of Tommy's fresh annihilation of Cuevas. (I do agree that at the time he actually did face Hearns, his chances of winning were far less going in.) Patterson avenged a devastating loss to Johansson in very impressive fashion, and Duran was certainly greater than Floyd. Maybe Hearns was Robeto's Foreman or Liston, but could he also have been El Cholo's Ingo? We'll never know.

 

dawg hearns aint invinclible he;s got no chin, dont gets crazy over a 4 min fight, cause roberto duran beat sugar ray leanord in a 45 minjute fight, while hagler had hearns beat after 3 min

 

Duran by late stoppage.