Is duran slightly overrated as an ATG?

Lol no way as those names are true greats and were much larger than his natural weight class.

 

what he did and how he did it will never be repeated again, ever. his resume is absolutely ridiculous when you factor in the names and weights of these challenges.

 

Depends where you rate him.

But the win over Leonard is one of the best wins ever. Leonard was prime, Duran was naturally smaller. Imagine if Pac had moved up and beat a prime Mayweather, it's that caliber of win.

Sure he lost to Hearns but style wise that was a nightmare for him. 6 inches in height, 12 inches in reach! Hearns was prime as at his best weight at the time. I can't think of any former lightweights I'd favour over that Hearns at that weight.

He lost to Hagler but he only just lost to Hagler, he should of been thrashed. He was 32 and 25lbs above his best weight against a prime Hagler.

 

Slightly??? Almost as over rated a the myth of this guy named prime Tyson, whoever the phuck that dude is

 

Not at all. I mean sometimes there are a bit too many excuses made for him but he deserves to be ranked as an ATG.

 

Not over rated at all.

 

I definitely don’t think so.

 

Not to mention putting on a masterclass in scientific street fighting and utterly ruining Davey Moore in 1983, at a time when pretty much everyone apart from Roberto Duran, his team and his loyalest fans had written Duran off as finished.

Roberto Duran is my favourite of all the Four Kings (with Marvelous Marvin Hagler a distant second) for many of the reasons you stated. But just imagine how much better he could've been if he'd just restrained himself some from blowing up in weight so badly between fights, and having to make such huge weight cuts?

That's the frightening thing.

 

Not at all, one of the greatest light weights ever, could hang in any era you put him in. The guys he lost too in his prime tend to be ATGs and that’s no slight against him when you are competing with bigger talented men.

 

Saying **** this stupid should get you temp-banned from a boxing forum.

Funny thing is, I'm not really joking.

 

Put it this way....Imagine Hopkins has the run he did at MW but with better competition. Imagine he then steps up 2 divisions and beats one of the ATG's at that weight. Not Antonio Tarver, but someone like Mike Spinks in his prime, Roy Jones or even Ezzard Charles.

Then, after a brutal KO at CW against Holyfield, he goes up to HW and gives Tyson an incredibly close fight. He loses, but wins a HW belt over someone the calibre of Frank Bruno or David Haye after that.

That's a simile for Duran's career. It is quite frankly astonishing .