What really went wrong when Duran met Hearns

After he got layed out, by his fanboys.

 

Is it me, or has Duran more apologists than anyone else on this forum? Maybe should start a thread on this.

IF Duran came in unmotivated in this fight as well as in his second fight against Leonard as many like too claim, then he´s an idiot. That would take more from his legacy than if he was in shape IMO. A true pro gets in best possible shape for fights like these, end of story.

 

.... Then Duran is an idiot. And apparentely not a true pro.

So there we have it, Duran's legacy should be demolished because he was fighting a giant praying mantis 5 years past his prime and almost 20 pounds past his natural division and came in out of condition and uninspired -armed with thinking errors about Hearns' character.

Oh yeah, he made dopey excuses like most fighters...

Hey! Let's all cast stones against the Hands of Stone! Let's all join the dubious trajectory of this thread and dismiss Duran's 5 decade career, 4 division championship status, 120 fights against 6 hall of famers.

Duran had character flaws.
Granted.
But he is the greatest living fighter on the planet and anyone who doubts that has a helluva burden to prove it he isn't.

 

most fans knew at the time that Duran was not the most dedicated of fighters especially since leaving lightweight.

It's actually the revisionists that say its all just excuses by fanboys; usually those that fail to grasp he was already well past his physical prime by the time the rot set in.I often get the feeling that a lot of posters resent Duran because he did enough to be considered one of the all-time greats while being lazy and lacking a true old school mindset.

On the subject of Hearns however, i tend to think he was simply a better junior middleweight than Duran was.Roberto should never have fought above Welter really.

 

I believe Roy Jones is still alive

 

It's amazing how people just seem to have forgotten what happened back then. If Ray Leonard had got sparked out by Roy Jones at 168 who would hold it against him???

Having lived through the era let me tell you Duran was all but despised by the American boxing media. I was a kid at the time and I bought into it myself. Looking back the way the fighters were all treated so differently in the press was unfair and it made me see things differently.

Like Stonehands says this guy is probably the greatest living fighter. He had a lot of faults but they only served to make him more compelling.

 

#!$%&^* YOU!!!

 

Are you sure? Did you see his last fight?

 

Not to mention Ali

:smoke

 

Oh you went there! :shock:

 

And how about SRL

:yikes

 

Hardly, Sugar Ray Leonard was just a stepping stone for Terry Norris, a true ATG fighter, to launch himself into the upper echelons of greatness.

 

YOU #$%^&?!*!!