Juan Manuel Marquez VS Roberto Duran (135)

This is actually a better fight than many may see on the surface.

Marquez was very skilled at disrupting a fighter's rhythm and his ability to adapt midfight is pretty solid.

I still think Duran beats him, but @ 135 JMM makes him work for it.

 

Marquez indeed could hang tough with Duran, but it's hard to see him or anybody else besting Duran at 135.

 

JMM vs. Duran is a slaughter. atsch

Considering Duran could do everything better than JMM and was naturally larger I can't even see this fight being remotely competitive. JMM was challenged by Juan Diaz and Katsidis at lightweight. Duran stops him in 7 rounds or less.

 

Duran by ****

Sorry Dinamita.... :cry:

 

Big fan of JMM but he gets tortured & smashed to bits & drowned under a tsunami of violence but brave till the very end. This is not the wide open lunging pacman he's in with, it's a pychotic slickster. Pick a middling from DeJesus II or III fights for the mode of execution employed:yep

 

Duran UD, 146-139 or so.

A fascinating fight in which Duran is always ahead, but would struggle on occasions with JMM's counter punching and ability to make adjustments.

 

How come everytime Duran is put up against a modern day fighter people come out with bull**** that he would simply smash through them. It bollocks to me.

 

This is as unfair as the last time somebody posted this same match.

 

I've grown to hate Marquez.I know it's unfair, but i can't help it.

How anyone can think his body of work and talent displayed at 135 makes for intriguing fights with all-time greats at that weight is beyond me.

So he can still throw nice punches.Big ****ing deal...stick him in with Hector Camacho or Jim Watt or someone.And that's hardly an insult, at least then an intriguing argument can be made within reason.

 

Correct you do talk a load of bollocks when you make statement's like "Modern Day fighter" as if Duran's era was 1 million years BC & the minor fact that he's recognised as one of the greatest lightweights of all time, so what the **** you talking about zombie???

 

It won't be competitive my ass. Duran beat Juan ****in' Diaz at Lightweight in a war for the ages. Seeing as Duran is basically a primitive old-timey version of Diaz, he won't be able to contend with Marquez's newer, more scientific boxing methods. Nobody even knew how to throw a proper punch until about 10 years ago, anyway. Did you see in that one fight when Duran threw a sloppy punch? That kinda **** would get picked off and exploited by even the most basic contenders today. Boxing has evolutionizized, people. It's time to accept it.

As a matter of fact, I think all of us new-time, non-senile fans should gang up together and make a pact. If we can't get the old-timers to commit to our scientifically proven method of thinking (as proven by the fact that trackstars today are running fractions of a second faster than their counter-parts from 50 years ago) by the end of this thread, then we all commit suicide. What say you guys?

 

Maybe a bit too subtle for some of the single cell organisms on here:yep