Redeeming a Demon: Moore vs Duran

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  1. escudo

    escudo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Henry Armstrong is the only guy in history I think could beat Duran inside. But Duran was better outside than Armstrong. Coin toss really, and an absolute war it would be.
     
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    escudo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    My favorite paragraph was

    And in this moment there is fear in Davey Moore. There just has to be. He came here expecting to fight the faded Shade of Roberto Duran. He ended up taking a horrific beating from the Lich King of Panama. Roberto Duran had discovered some unnatural magic through which he'd made himself into boxing immortality. This isn't a fight anymore. This is an attempted murder in progress. And it absolutely needs to be stopped.
     
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    vast Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Duran a GOAT for sure. Never another like him. The Moore destruction was pure mastery, as was his beat down of the much larger Barkley, the man who owned Tommy Hearns.
     
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