Roberto Duran

Although you're right about one thing: I have had a few drinks. :good

 

Only because not everybody respons to your stupid "arguments", it doesn´t automatically mean that they have nothing left to say...

 

Yeah, he was so passionate about it then he hadn't officially registered it as his new name. Official letters to his house were addressed 'Cassius Clay'. So that was still his name. That's how much it meant to him- yeah right. I mean he allowed members of his entourage to call him Clay so why not an opponent?

 

Lewis KO1 Ali
but seriously try actually responding to posts, if you think Duran was that mean, then Ali must have been the nastiest mother****er ever alive

 

Bizarre.

I wasnt going to grace this post with a reply, but I still have a few minutes before work so I will make three comments.

1) Firstly, there is a lot more to Roberto Duran than the 3 Leonard fights. You might want to familarise yourself with his career from '67-'80, a 14 year time frame during which he fought over 70 fights, many against boxer / movers such as Buchanan, DeJesus and Leonard, and lost just once, on points. The points loss was avenged twice, by brutal KOs.

2) Duran behaved disgracefully at times and was a complex man. However, this criticism can be applied to any number of boxers who emerged from the wrong side of the tracks.

Duran emerged victorious and loved from a difficult, impoverished background. His story, his athletic prowess, his boxing skills, his longevity, his ferocity and his dragon slaying in the 80s is the stuff of legend.

3) Your post is hypocritical, out of the ring Alis behavious was despicable. He mis-treated his wives, whom he cheated on serially, and thereby not just hurt them, but ruined their lives and the lives of his children.

 

Nothing new. C.M. Clay II is probably the biggest chadband...

 

Because I know what happens when I answer something with something serious. The discussion would totally deviate from the original theme, like always and you would like always come with your bizarre views of the world.

 

... I noticed C.M. Twat II totally avoided Conteh's reply