Roberto Duran Would've SCHOOLED Floyd Mayweather Jr. 9-3!

I know that a fight against Benitez would be close, i don't see it black and white. I still think that he would win
against him , when we talking about prime for prime.

Mayweather has exactly the skills that you need to win against Roberto Duran.
When the best Mayweather displays his skills against Roberto Duran, he would win in a close fight.
I'm convinced about that , 7-5 for Mayweather.

Of course i'm a Mayweather fan , everyone who is a pure boxing fan , should be.

 

It's already been explained in this thread multiple times the Mayweather habits and limitations Duran would almost certainly exploit. And there is nothing Mayweather does that Duran hasn't seen before.

As for "pure boxing fan" ? What is a pure boxer exactly? Isn't it subjective? There's an argument that Duran is a better example of a pure boxer than Floyd since he is more complete. He could do a whole lot of hitting while not being hit. Floyd is one dimensional compared to Duran and has an over exaggerated skillset. It's actually ridiculous how exaggerated Floyd's skillset is tbh.

 

What you guys are explaining is your opinion and not a scientific evidence.

Duran never fought someone with the reflexes of Floyd Mayweather.
He fought someone with a great defense like Mayweather in Benitez and he lost.

Mayweather is not one dimensional , he made a lot of adjustments in his fighting style over the
years to move up succesfully to the heavier divisions, which separates him from other fighters
who didn't made such adjustments and lost as soon as they moved up.

He was much more offensive in the past , look at his fight with Diego Corrales , he destroyed him.
Mayweather can do it all. He simply fights with his defensive fighting style , because nobody can handle it.

If he would fight against somebody like Benitez , who is defensive , he would make adjustments , to
his fighting style.

His ring iq is untouchable, the execution and accuracy of his punches are untouchable.

His skillset is not overrated , it is underrated by some people like you.

Mayweather can't get schooled , because HE IS THE TEACHER.

 

These are two great fighters. Duran as great an inside fighter as he was couldn't box with Floyd. Esteban DeJesus showed us that. It's a great fight. I'm reserving judgement until I can truly analyze the two. Duran was an animal and Floyd is one of our most scientific thinkers. I don't know lmao...

 

That's a bizarre thing to say. We're debating something. I'm being thorough.

I'm being logical and respectful. Looks like you got emotional for no reason.

You're sorry I believe someone who beat a junior welterweight ATG champion at 17 could possibly be more skilled than someone who fought in a weaker era?

Nope, just above welterweight. That's when his record starts to fill with losses against fighters below his caliber, like Laing. When he fought Benitez he had almost 80 fights. It's amazing he was able to compete like he did at 154 and 160 despite being old and chubby.

They are two great fighters.

Some relevant fights to watch for Duran are Lampkin, Viruet, the DeJesus Trilogy, Palomino, and of course the Brawl in Montreal. Duran was more thinker than animal to be honest.

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My take-DeJesus showed us that a lightweight Duran could be caught cold and dropped from a powerful left hook in the first round. He did the same thing in the 2nd fight and Duran overcame it. Then Duran didn't get dropped at all in the 3rd. Duran isn't realistically getting dropped by Floyd so the DeJesus point is moot, in my opinion.

 

Floyd doesn't have to drop Duran, just outbox him which he was more than capable of doing.

 

He'd have a very difficult time outboxing him since lesser pressure fighters have closed the distance on Floyd.

 

So what , lesser fighters than Floyd have outboxed Duran , same pathetic logic again.

 

What lesser fighters outboxed Duran in his prime? Name them and describe the fight please, thanks.

 

It is ridiculous , most fighters closed the distance against Mayweather in his prime , for only about 10 seconds
every round.

The only fight where somebody closed the distance for the most time of the fight , was that fight against Castillo
and Mayweather had an off-night in that fight , he beat him clearly in the rematch.
And Mayweather never lost against anyone .

You are talking about only a couple of times in his career , where he had allowed someone to fight him on the inside.
Roberto Duran would get his chances , because he is elite and he would win 4 or 5 rounds , but he wouldn't get
enough opportunities to get inside against him to win the fight.

To answer your question , de Jesus outboxed him in his prime and Benitez and Kirkland Laing outboxed him in
1982 , where he was 31 years old , maybe he was at this time already out of his prime , but he was surely not
too far away from it.

Which fighter beat Mayweather again on the inside ?
How many times he came close to getting beat ? maybe 3 or 4 times in 49 fights and a timespan of 20 years ?

And by the way , this is not a porn forum , i don't want to know if a man can get inside another man.
You are always talking about that , behave yourself.

 

Yeah and lesser boxers than Floyd have shown that Duran can be outboxed at times.

 

You're Stoopid...!!!

 

Loooool..
I already forgot I actually said that, must be early on the page. I'm being sarcastic dude! Lol.. Scroll through, you will find me give props to Duran, who in my opinion is a lock in the top 10 ATG.