In spite of the spectacular KO....

Agreed.Vs Corrales he was absolutely stunning.His speed was phenomenal.But as for him loosing to Duran.. its all moot.Duran was a great puncher but he was quite 1 dimensional.Certainly at 135 it would have been a great fight pick em fight.But id still favor PBF as he could tame Duran with his sound fundamentals.

 

Duran wasn't one dimensional.

 

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Leonard fought Duran's fight. Rematch told the real story.

 

He beat Leonard because Leonard stood infront of him.Watch the rematch and see Leonards sweet box punching.

 

Goddam rookies:thumbsup

 

Now why would the rematch tell the real story more than the first match-up.

In the rematch, Duran had wanted more time to drop weight as he had balooned a bit after the first fight. But the Leonard camp was aware of his weight problems and pressed the earlier date.

Duran had been using diuretics and laxatives to make the last few pounds. On fight day, he had bowel cramps and during the figh, badly needed a **** (Some say, even began one, during the sixth round). So he quit, but not on his stool (oops, no pun intended) but by walking away in the middle of a round.

He wasn't hurt. He was frustrated, but he was also having colic cramps, unrelated to Leonard's punches.

So again, why would the rematch tell the real story more than the first match-up ?

At least in the first match-up, both men were fully trained and prepared.

And Duran won.

 

I think the point about feinting is a good one. One of the few fighters that ever gave Floyd any problems was Emanuel Augustus. It wasn't his awkward style that seemed to throw Floyd off balance, it was the feints!

 

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Agreed. Corrales was a better victory than Hatton.

 

Indeed it did :yep

 

Floyd would figure Duran out as well and would fight exactly like the 2nd Duran Leonard fight......he would never try and beat Duran at his game like Sugar did.