watching leonard-duran I right now

Very interesting.

 

I hate to say it because we hardly ever agree on anything, but I partially agree with you. You do need a break in between hard fights every so often, and Duran was slobbing quite a bit at the dinner table. Coming from poverty as a child, his weakness was food. My dad who used to train with him when he fought in the early 70's said he liked to pig out after matches for weeks. One time he was at the gym training and he brought a six pack of coke. Not beer, coke. I always thought that was quite funny

 

The first round was uneventful, Van, and could have gone either way.

Duran hurt Leonard badly in the second and took over for a bit after that. But Leonard fought back well in the middle rounds and took his share from the . The rounds that Duran banked over the tirst half proved critical in determining the outcome, because they provided the buffer on the cards that, imo, Leonard couldn't quite overcome when he came on in the championship rounds.

Still, there were a few swing rounds, and I thought Leonard won the last three pretty clearly. Given that he was hardly shut out over the first twelve , I think it's entirely reasonable to come up with a pretty narrow margin on the scorecard.

 

The fight was clearly competitive. But it's because of that, that it's still such a big fight. A young natural gifted ww fighting a slightly older gifted lw coming up in weight. I had it 8-6 with 1 round even for Duran

 

Interesting theory that might have some truth. Although when you read Duran's bio this doesn't come across. But interesting enough one of SRL's advisors quite over his decision to give Duran an immediate rematch as he wanted a tune up fight first. I believe I had the fight 9-6 for Duran but 8-6-1 is pretty much the same.

 

Damn it you blew it

 

I can live with that answer. It was a close competitive fight :good

 

Regarding the Fab 4:


Duran born in 1951 turned pro in 1968 as a Bantamweight.


Hagler born in 1954, turned pro in 1973 as a Middleweight.


Leonard born in 1956, turned pro in 1977 as a Welterweight.


Hearns was born in 1958, turned pro in 1977 as a Lightweight.


Duran is 3-7 years older than his peers and spotted them 4-8 weight divisions.


Duran was 30 when he went 1-1 against a 25 year old Leonard at Welterweight.


Duran was 32 when he lost a close decision to a 29 year old Hagler at Middleweight.


Duran was a day shy of 34 when he was knocked out by a 27 year old Hearns at Super Welter.




If you weren't an insecure racist intimidated by Duran's all time great legendary status, you would understand why Duran didn't need to have a winning record against these men to earn respect.

 

You're well assessed argument will fall on fodder plugged ears.

 

Yeah I think both SRL and Duran from Montreal are a bridge too far for Floyd, though I think he can hang for a while with both of 'em.

 

Just out of curiosity what's Ali's record against Spinks, Berbick and Holmes? Do you think he's the worst of the four?