FIGHT OF THE WEEK 1- Duran vs Barkley

I'll give it a whirl. Seems like I saw this one on TV and from what I remember it was quite a brawl. I had very little appreciation at the time for Duran's historic significance, but I remember hugely admiring him for being old(relatively) and small and taking on this big, scary-lookin' dude and giving him all he could handle and more.

My question is this: how do you guys score these classic fights? Do you pore over the exchanges in slomo and rewatch and take full advantage of technology? Or do you just watch em' through and score em' like you would on a RBR thread?

 

Are we going to get more of these, Philly?

 

My full watch with commentary, no scorecard though.

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Here's my scoring :

01) 10 - 09 Duran
had Barkley slightly ahead til' the end of the round Duran lands that big right and visibly wobbles Iran

02) 19 - 19 Barkley
Landed more punches

03) 28 - 29 Barkley
Duran is in it, but Barkley landing more

04) 38 - 38 Duran
Liked Duran in the exchanges thought he did more damage

05) 47 - 48 Barkley
Great round for Iran

06) 57 - 57 Duran all day
Don't know what Al was watching, but looked to me like Roberto landed by far the cleaner and more numerous blows

07) 66 - 67 Barkley by a whisker
Think he hurt Duran more than Duran hurt him, but could be the other way. Almost called it an even rd

08) 75 - 77 Big Barkley round
Duran doing damage at the end but not enough and was definitely hurt by Barkley

09) 85 - 86 Duran landing more now down by 1 point

10) 95 - 95 Duran pulls even. Barkley's eye closing. Was hurt at least once this round.

11) 105 - 103 Duran pulls ahead with the KD

12) 114 - 113 Barkley wins the rd close

Final 114 - 113 Duran

Great fight and love the good sportsmanship after the scores are announced (which seemed a bit wide to me). Probably could have gone either way. Don't think I'd gripe if they gave it to Barkley as long as it was close on the cards.

 

Dang, Escudo....are you old enough to vote yet?

 

Iran was my man back in the day....fellow Bronx boy. Duran had massive cojones getting in there with a much bigger, stronger, crazier guy.

 

I'm 28 there I think. What year is it? You'd **** yourself if you knew how young @BitPlayerVesti is.

 

Lol good stuff, my young grasshopper!

At my age, anyone under 40 looks like a child.

 

Who do we get next?