I guess SRL was exposed by Duran too huh?

Leonard was an Olympic gold medalist who was coming off a clear victory over a top 50 atg WW(Benitez) and lost a competitive decision to one of the best fighters of the past 40 years(Duran). Broner's coming off a razor thin decision over Paulie and got pounded by Maidana. My point is that it was probably very easy to tell that Leonard could bounce back from that loss to Duran. Broner's whole sense of self worth is tied into being perfect like Floyd, so a loss will tend to linger with someone like that.

 

This is the stupidest ****in thread I've ever seen in my life.

Ray Leonard had more talent in one testicle than THREE Adrien Broner's. And Duran had more talent in one testicle than three Maidana's.

 

I don't care what the reason is. You should never compare Broner and Maidana to monster ATG's in Leonard and Duran. Hands of Stone will crush your balls for that ****.

 

Leonard normally fought kind of in the middle of his styles in the first 2 Duran fights.

Leonard generally boxed flat-footed. He'd use movement, usually circling around, he was pretty offensive minded. Maybe not to the extent as he did in Montreal, but he really changed his style more so for the Duran rematches (and Hagler) by being so fleet-footed and moving so much, more so than changing so for the first fight.

Floyd was still very difficult to hit back then. Look at all his title fights at 130. Hernandez (both of them) didn't hit him often, Manfredy was outta there before he could even get an offense going anyway, Vargas missed with damn near everything, Corrales was able to get in a couple of nice shots but that was about it. Juuko, Rios, and Gerena didn't hit Floyd much. Only Chavez was able to get to him with any reasonable consistency, with his body attack.

At 135, Floyd seemed more hittable against Augustus and to a lesser extent, Ndou, but he also fought more offensive minded in those fights. Castillo eventually got a body attack going in the first fight but still missed a whole lot, and couldn't get his offense going in the rematch. Sosa landed like one right hand of note, the "highlights" of that fight was Sosa missing shots and Floyd jabbing his face in.

Floyd's always been hard to hit. Naturally, he's most hittable when he's in a more offensive mode. I never remember him actually getting rocked at 130 or 135. He was more rocked at 140 against Corley, and definitely against Mosley at 147, than he ever was at 130-135.

 

They were both forced to fight fights they didn't want to fight.

Broner almost certainly won't rebound to the degree Leonard did. He isn't as talented, skilled, or intelligent. Ray also put forth a great effort in his loss to Duran. Broner gutted out a few moments, but he never adapted, kept getting hit by stuff he had been hit with all night, and overall acted poorly inside the ring in a lot of ways.

 

This might be the worst analogy I've ever heard.

 

His gameplan should be to become a more well-rounded fighter. He has pretty poor footwork and relied on his power and "shoulder roll" defense against guys that (a) couldn't hurt him; and (b) he could hurt. Once he was fighting guys that could take his punch, his deficiencies came to the fore. He looks a little chubby so I don't know if can get back to lightweight. Let's see.

And not everyone can make that shoulder roll work like Mayweather, who has great footwork.

And finally, SRL as a amateur stopped the great Cuban Andres Aldama for the gold, so he was already a devastatingly good fighter even before turning pro. Losing a close decision to another great fighter like Duran did not "expose" him because, unlike Broner, there was nothing really to expose.

 

omg.. r u kidding me???

 

Don't ever mention SRL and Broner on the same day again...

And what makes you think 140 is ANY safer for this fake @ss Mayweather groupie?

He would be beaten to death at 140 by both Lucas and Danny.


Stop it... Get a new hero and come back tomorrow.

 

Yep, and Ray convincingly beat a prime HOFer in Benitez, who came in with a 38-0-1 record and had beaten guys like Cervantes and Palomino. I think some of the stories of Benitez's poor training habits for that fight are exaggerated.

Although Ray pimped out his sister to weaken Benitez's legs

 

more bawling and crying and reaching by broner fans smh have some pie and coffee relax it's gonna be ok !