So, knowing that Duran first fought and debuted in super bantamweight,Imagine if he keeps that small frame and it's his natural weight,with his power being a bit decreased too of course,fighting Yamanaka at the weight. While I know most men's would've picked Duran,who wins?
I doubt that Yamanaka would be getting down to bantam/super bantam in the seventies with the same day weigh in. It wouldn't surprise me if Duran at super feather/lightweight and he were a similar size anyway. At any rate I don't think that Yamanaka was quite as good as the faded version of Kobayashi who Duran beat convincingly in his pre-championship days. Kobayashi at least had the sort of compact and technically precise two-handed slip/counter game required to at least land punches on the rawer version of Duran and stay reasonably competitive for stretches. Yamanaka's basic dip and throw an overhand left approach would get sussed and overhauled pretty rapidly imo by even the very young Duran.
