Roberto Duran's resume minus MH, TH and SRL

Hearns also got knocked out by Hagler, arguably lost to kinchen and was beaten by barkley twice so don't act as if he didn't have setbacks either as he moved up, and tommy was closer to his prime for a lot of those than Duran was for most of his losses other than no mas.Hearns is an odd choice to illustrate a point here.

Fact is, the vast majority of fighters have setbacks once they move up and are past their best, especially if they fight a high level of competition.Duran was not a great fighter above Welter, he was a very good inconsistent one that was capable of flashes of greatness given the right style.Why anyone thinks we need to ackwledge Duran as still being at his best to give him credit for beatin Moore, Cuevas, barkley etc is beyond me.

 

yeh it is ring generalship but i have never seen a fighter so good at staying center ring.

 

You dumb *******.

 

What does this prove? Andries & Hill are not top notch Lightheavyweights. Sugar Ray Robinson failed in his bid at the LightHeavy. Title. Does this mean Hearns is better than Robinson? Highly Doubtful. What other Lightweight could hang 15 rounds with Marvin Hagler?

 

He was a grat lightweight and it was a pleasure to watch his fights back then. Then again, look what it took to be a champ back circa 74 from 135 thru 175. You just had to beat duran or cervantes or napoles or monzon or foster.

 

One thing about duran, no matter where that guy fought EVERYONE.

 

I agree with a lot of this post. Leonard was DEFINITELY beginning to find the range with hard shots in rounds 7 & 8. And I agree if Duran hadn't quit he may well have been stopped.
I do like to take the first fight at face value though and give Duran credit for imposing his will on Leonard.

 

Duran will always be 1 over leonard!