Prime Duran vs. Prime Mayweather Jr. at 135 Pounds

you are a true child of the 90s you agree whole heartedly with a poster on esb (no disrespect meant to you mag) but totally disregard the article which was contributed to by people infinitely more knowledgeable about this sport than 99% of the posters on this board.

i repeat my first response to you. you know jack **** about the sport of boxing. you need to take up jacks or old maid.

 

In your opinion is there anyone from 147 and under that can beat Floyd?

 

with or without thumbless gloves is the real question.Play under the rules when Duran was 135, Mayweather is never the same again. Just a plain simple fact. 15 round and as dirty as you like LOL

 

So Floyd also outboxes Hearns? atsch

 

PBF was injured before the JLC 1 fight you dumb mother****er and still won.:deal A healthy PBF beat JLC again in the rematch. Pressure is what PBF likes it gives him more opportunity to do what he does best counter. If Duran had long arms it would make it harder fro PBF to counter but he doesn't he's a short armed fighter and PBF would counter his ass all day long. Duran can't deal with speed, movement and defense it was his weakness and he lost to elite fighters who had those attributes.

 

Great post!:good

 

I couldn't agree more. Better resume and better fighter.

 

SRL, SRR, Hearns, Pea and a few otrhers

 

Duran would had tapped that ass

 

There are some ****ing ******s in this thread.

Duran rapes Mayweather and likely stops him late

 

This whole thread is unreal...some of the stupid comparisons being made as to why Duran would lose is unreal. Seriously you people are taking the Hearns loss at 154 into consideration!?!? And the Hagler loss??

What that has to do with a fight at 154 is beyond me!!

I'm forever defending SRL on the classic and have criticisms about Duran...but Duran has a V over a prime SRL at a weight two divisions above his natural class. I too believe that by the end of the 1st fight Leonard had solved the conundrum of Duran, but Duran was at his physical peak for the 2nd fight and the 3rd fight does nothing for either fighter as they were barely top level fighters at that time.

Duran was drawing after 13 rounds with a top 5 MW of all time...this is a natural LW we're talking about!!!

I do believe that he is generally overrated but he is being grossly underrated now by people that are clearly lacking in historical knowledge of the sport.

Seriously..who said that Duran had one win against an all time great in Leonard?? I'm guessing you must have forgot about Palamino, Cuevas and De Jesus - and forgotten that Duran fought most of the top fighters outside his comfort weight!!!

And to the fool above who said Floyd beats everyone but SRR and SRL in history below 147 and then tried to justify him beating Hearns by saying "he's make Hearns miss enough to win a decision". What are you smoking?? You realise you have to hit someone to win right??? Hearns was ahead on points against Leonard before being stopped...he was a masterful boxer with an amazing jab. If you seriously give Floyd a chance at 147 against a 6'1 monstrous puncher with excellent boxing skills whose only real weakness was his chin, you're opinion is instantly invalid.

As I said earlier, I have no problem with people thinking PBF could win...it's an arguable point. But it's so obvious to see that many people picking Floyd have only ever read Duran's record on Boxrec. Floyd has beaten nobody of any great significance at 135 or higher!!!

 

You say better resume but you're only looking at names!!!

I too think in the truest sense of P4P that Leonard was a better fighter - but other than the wins over the big 4 and Benitez...there isn't really much to his resume.

Also, we must remember that he lost the 1st fight to Duran...as stated above a win in the 3rd fight really does nothing for either fighter resume. It's like beating DLH now.

He beat an aged Hagler in a fight many thought he lost. I personally believe this is one of the most underrated wins of all time but we must
take it in the context it was fought in. Hagler had looked horrible in his last fight with Mugabi and never fought after which should tell you something in itself.
The Hearns win was amazing..SRL was behind on the cards at the time though (I though unjustly). The 2nd fight between the 2 was a clear win for Hearns (Leonard himself has admitted that) but again it does nothing for either fighter legacy as they were both far removed from their best.

The Benitez win is great no doubt.

After that there's barely a credible top fighter on his resume - and I admit that as his biggest fan.

Leonard come in at 9 and Duran at 7 in my ATG rankings, and I would say I'm biased towards Leonard. No way does he have a better resume than Duran.