Iran Barkley V Juan Domingo Roldan??

I was somewhat on the fence about this fight but you convinced me with your post. Barkley also had a better jab .I'm in the Barkley camp on this one

 

Hate to brag, mate.

 

I got the 'Blade' in 10. He goes through hell to win (as Roldan is a tough customer), but Barkley always loves a good fight.

 

Iran Barkley. He beat better middleweights than Roldan. Seemed to be tougher, as well. Roldan had retired and weighed around 200 pounds before he decided to mount one last comeback. Began it at light heavyweight. Eventually, got back down to middleweight. But he didn't seem to have a whole lot left.

This fight could've easily happened in 1987.

When Leonard vacated, the division was wide open. Here is an excerpt from the NY Times that talks about it.

By beating Marvelous Marvin Hagler April 6, Leonard won the World Boxing Council title. Boxing's two other governing bodies, the World Boxing Association and the International Boxing Federation, were left trying to line up fights for their vacated titles. (The W.B.A. stripped Hagler of the title for fighting Leonard, and the I.B.F. declined to sanction the Hagler-Leonard bout.) Herol Graham and Iran Barkley were to have fought for the W.B.A. title, and Michael Olajide and Thomas Hearns were in line for an I.B.F. title match. But the plans of both groups have gone awry.

Last month Graham lost to Sambu Kalambay of Italy in what was to have been a tuneup bout. Meanwhile, Hearns missed an I.B.F. deadline to say whether he would fight Olajide, and when the I.B.F. decided to look elsewhere for an opponent, Hearns went to court in Detroit to enjoin the I.B.F. from removing him as its top contender.

Hearns, who won the W.B.C. light-heavyweight championship earlier this year, finds himself under pressure not only from the I.B.F.; the W.B.C. had ordered him to defend his light heavyweight title against its mandatory challenger, Eddie Davis, and in W.B.C. ratings released this week, Hearns's title was listed as vacant.

Hagler has not revealed whether he intends to continue boxing or not. Hagler's attorney, Morris Goldings, in a letter dated May 27, requested that the W.B.A. include Hagler in its rankings. He is No. 3 in the latest W.B.A. ratings.

Hagler's promoter, Bob Arum, and his co-manager, Goody Petronelli, have said that they expected Hagler to reveal his plans by Monday.

Arum said that Jose Sulaiman, the president of the W.B.C., ''has given Marvin until the end of this week to decide.''

Arum said that if Hagler and Hearns were available, he would try to match them for the W.B.C. title in September in Las Vegas, on a card that could include middleweight title matches for the W.B.A. and I.B.F. titles. (Hagler is the No. 1 contender in the latest W.B.C. ratings.) Besides Hearns and Hagler, other middleweights regarded as having a good chance to end up in middleweight title matches are Olajide, Juan Roldan, and Barkley. If slots are still open, among those who likely would be considered to fill them are Kalambay, Robbie Sims, Frank Tate and Michael Nunn.

When the dust settled, we got:
Hearns-Roldan for the vacant WBC belt.
Kalambay-Barkley for the vacant WBA belt
Tate-Olajide for the vacant IBF belt.

But it would've been nuts if the vacant WBC title fight had been Hagler-Hearns II.

 

The other big factor in the fight is that Roldan is a real on top fighter. He looks devastating when everything is working for him in a bout. Trouble with this opponent is things may not go 100% like say the Fletcher or Kitchen fights.

Barkley handles adversity better of the 2. By far. And it might come down to that factor. But I sure think those hard punches that Roldan wings in there bust up Iran.

 

Roldan beats and stops Iran.

 

I lean heavily towards Roldan. Roldan mopped the floor with Kinchen and l think Roldan would be too fast for Barkley, but if Barkley can dig down and weather the storm and wear Roldan down he has a chance, but my gut says Roldan would get in and land heavy.

 

Agree w this ... Barkley had insane heart and I also felt Juan was a bit short on that end ..I do feel he was faster, very strong and capable of hurting ran fast and early ..

 

You'd be the only bloke on the forum capable of this

 

You've won me over squire.

 

Barkley was ferocious back then. Big strong mean super tough mentality and physically. Barkley by KO