Pick A Featherweight to step up to Lighweight To Take Beat Duran

Well EVERY feather has little chance of beating Duran. That's hardly the point. I'm just saying, stylistically he matches Hearns in certain respects.

And in any case, the Pryor fight was held at 140, not at 135, where Alexis was better.

 

Still, Pryor is just not in the same class as Duran. Head to head Duran smashes Pryor, so I can't see Arguello succeding with Duran, though he failed with Pryor.

 

Mother****er, beat me to it.

It's gotta be somebody with KO power I would think, as a smaller slickster type would probably be pressured into defeat.

Maybe Naz on a big longshot?

 

Yeah probably not, but at the same time, what chance is a feather that lost to George Aroujo, Paddy DeMarco and Del Flanagan? I'd give Alexis a better shot than I would Sandy.

 

I can't see a featherweight moving up to beat a prime Roberto Duran.

Maybe Henry but even he would have a hard time (well who won't ?) and I don't give him the edge at lightweight.

I don't know, really.

 

One person worth mentioning is Young Corbett II.

He could be a foil for Duran both stylisticaly and psychologicaly.

 

So this thread was designed to pump up Pep? Is this a reaction to China_Chin_Joe's comments? :think

 

I like Arguello's chances at 135 lbs.

It's a pick'em fight imo. I dont think Duran ever faced a lightweight with the power that Arguello possesed.
......and Arguello had skill and stamina to go along with that power.

As was said, Pryor beat Arguello at 140 lbs, but when you look at even that fight, Pryor in great portions of that fight had to resort to being the boxer who backed up and used lateral movements.
Pryor was more unconventional and less predictable with his herky jerky type style and punching off the wrong foot at times.

I dont believe Duran would fight the way Pryor did to beffudle Arguello at times......Duran would use alot of defensive manuevers of course, but I dont think he'd take a backward step and use laterals the way Pryor did.

Arguello has a great chance, as great as any featherweight I could think of.

 

Surely a lanky featherweight stepping up is competely differerent to Duran stepping up to to face a very tall middleweight, no featherweight could 'Hearns' Duran!

 

I cant see it ,but the best chances might go to Mcgovern,Saldivar,Saddler,Arguello,and Griffo.Driscoll may have done well early but he lacked Peps elusive foot work so Duran would get inside his left sooner or later and maul him.

 

:yikes

 

Henry Armstrong was the first name that came to me he was a beast at featherweight although Saddler has a good chance too great power, chin and is as rough maybe even rougher then Duran.

 

Whitaker is a better bet than Arguello.

 

Maybe Pep.