Myth: Roberto Duran has a better resume than Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.

That's the most spineless thing you could've possibly said.

 

Are you actually resorting to H2H ? You made a resume thread, not a H2H one, and you know that. Duran fought Marcel when he was a still growing 18 year old Featherweight, with the older and fully grown Marcel getting robbed of his win against Shibata a year later, staying a Featherweight until his retirement. Floyd was a grown ass 28 year old Welterweight fighting another grown ass man in Gatti, with a good chuck of career ending beatings behind him, and a 1-2 record ahead of him prior to retirement.

It's obvious, even to you, that the Marcel win is better than the Gatti one, so you resort to comparing a Featherweight with a much larger man H2H in order to save face. It's pathetic.

 

So I guess Frazier beating Ellis, who was a reigning WBA champion with 1 title defence, is more impressive than beating the belt-less Muhammad Ali.

 

He wasn't the champ in any different way that Jeffries and Fury were during their comebacks against Johnson and Jeffries. He was out of the ring for 4 years and only held the lineal title claim. Ali was a former Champ and Marcel would become one, but they were both belt-less when losing to Frazier and Duran. Obviously Ali was a better win than Marcel and Ellis, but it wasn't because he was a former champ, but a better Boxer that night, the same way the Marcel win was a better win than the Gatti win. But you knew that.

 

Ah, so now you're comparing resumes and not 2 fighters with a 30 lb difference in H2H terms ? Nice dodge. But nah, I won't. I've already made it obvious that the Marcel win is better than the Gatti win, despite what some stats may say. In case you occasionally forget why, just go back a bit.

Numbers don't lie, I hear you say. Of course they don't, they barely say anything in the first place, after all. They don't give room for context. I haven't stated Marcel was better than all of Floyd's wins, just the Gatti one, so I won't bother with this sort of nonsense for all of Floyd's wins compared to Marcel.

 

Your opinion. Absence of facts.

Gatti was not prime, him going to war with Ward 3 times and going 1-2 after Floyd is proof enough. Duran was only 2 lbs above the Featherweight limit when he fought Marcel. Marcel actually came in higher in the weigh in.