Maidana made Mayweather beg Tony Weeks to seperate them as soon as Maidana gets close. Duran would have made Mayweather scream for the referee's help.
NO way does Floyd beat Benitez makes me believe many of you clowns have never watched "The" great Wilfred....his defense was better than Floyds which is Floyds best attribute ,he was faster he had more power more heart a much higher work rate. Besides the Hearns destruction Benitez looked the most masterful against Duran....he also boxed with Hearns until a dead heat and he was beating Leonard and hurting him a lot he hurt Duran, Leonard, and Hearns alot! Floyd couldnt hurt any of them even if he pulled a Ortiz, plain and simple Benitez was a beast he was beating and dominating grown men at 15!
tliang1000 how are you so sure that Leonard is easier to hit than Floyd? The last time I checked its ALOT harder not to get hit when its Hearns, Benitez, Duran, and Norris hitting you as opposed to forty yr old Mosley, old ODH, Beating and shop worn Cotto and young slow reckless Canello trying to hit you. Infact Hearns can hit anyone of any era with ease and often with a blink of a eye and yes that includes Void to shoulder roles wouldnt do him any good...it also would not stop Leonard, Duran, and Benitez from hitting Floyd either...the bottom line is with these elites he would take punishment just like they did...
I think Floyds fans look at what Benitez did against Duran and come up with this rediculous assumption, but the problem with that philosophy is That Benitez was bigger faster and better than Floyd, anything less than that as a counter puncher/defensive fighter would get you ate alive against Duran...which Floyd is less than that Duran would brutalize Duckweather....lol
Floyd is different class, bags of talent and is the best fighter in the sport today. But Roberto Duran is the one man that would be 100% all wrong for him, Mayweather doesn't beat Duran.
Duran wouldn't outweigh PBF by 20 pounds and were are talking about a prime version of PBF not the 37 year old one if that's the case lets put the 37 version of Duran against the 37 year old version of PBF.
38 year old duran won the middleweight title over 29 year old iran barkley, the fight after barkley had knocked out thomas hearns in 3 rounds. look how much bigger barkley is than duran. did duran cry about his health comes first? lmao. stfu about floyd against the greats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFEczCYT4Ro
How long was that after Hearns had ktfo Duran? It kills me when people make these types of analogies.
what analogy? the point was simply that barkley was a beast, much bigger and younger than duran. hearns caught duran with a perfect or close enough to perfect punch. it happened sometimes when people fought hearns.
The fact that Duran beat Barkley has nothing to do as to how he would have fared against Mayweather. Two completely different types of fighters. Making the implicit analogy that Duran beat the fighter that beat Hearns implies that he would have beat Mayweather, which is silly. Especially since Hearns damn near took Duran's head off.
he said to put 37 year old floyd against 37 year old duran. duran looked great at 37, floyd doesn't look good at all. he also said duran wouldn't outweight floyd by 20 pounds, wrong again.
Floyd looked great against Alvarez. Mayweather has one fight when he doesn't completely shutout his opponent and people are ready to flush him down the toilet. The fact is that any version of Duran would struggle against any version of Mayweather.