:rofl. hang yourself. check my post here. did i ever claim that pac was greater. i voted duran but i said, pac has a chance to overtake him but i think both will be on the same level. owned, you ****ing hater. :rofl
I'm done here. Scatterbrain once against proves why he is one of the worst posters on the General Forum. You can't talk sense to the guy. Disputing that Ray was an established Welterweight by the time of the first Roberto Duran fight in Montreal is dumb. He already put on a Boxing masterclass against undefeated, prime all-time Great Wilfred Benitez, and had destroyed decent contenders Price and Green.
your the ****ing idiot selfkill. I have no issue about ray being a welterweight although i had said i agreed with the OP that he was a bit raw. you run again with your tails in between your legs because your ass has been handed to you. you insist that duran was so small compared to leaonard and hagler and hearns. and upon realizing the fact that leonard was 24 years old, a bit raw unlike duran who was already 29 and at the peak of his physical prime. now you run. owned again. next time, come back to me with sharper swords will you. :hi::hi::hi: so you still insist that duran was the smaller man when he fought srl and hagler. :rofl
just because your brain is not that sharp, you resort to name calling. you dispute my points with reason, yet you go back to your child like tendencies. grow up kid and learn to have some balls. learn your mistakes and try to improve. that is a simple question. height wise, duran gives 2 inches or so to both leonard and hagler. yet, shown the fact that duran was 29 years old at the time he fought srl, he was a true welterweight just like cotto now. just like pbf who at 32 years old can't even make 144. :hi::hi:
Duran's optimal weight was at Lightweight, if you have trouble understanding this then take up golf. Nothing further to add.
atschatsch that may be true, but he had his greatest performance at welterweight. so that is contradictory to most people posts here. so what makes him an atg, his performance at 135 or his win vs. srl at welterweight. :---(. jesus, selfkill. please go to college and learn some skills will you.
Scatterbrain, you make a fool of yourself whilst simultaneously insulting the intelligence of every poster in here when you rant about how you "own" people with your incoherent, repetitive ramblings about the same thing, over and over again. You ignore what people post, so it's all pretty damn pointless me even responding to you now. He was an all-time great already for his victories over De Jesus and Ken Bunchanan, displaying a ridiculous level of dominance at 135, seeing off every worthy contender there was throughout the 70s. The Leonard victory, coupled with what he achieved at 154 and 160 only further cements his place among the top 5 or top 10 (its peoples opinions, afterall) fighters that ever graced the ring. It wasn't just the wins, it was the longevity, the dominance at Lightweight, the way in which he handled naturally bigger fighters and of course, the different dimensions to his skill set. Stop asking the same questions, and please, for your own sake, don't question that Ray Leonard was an established Welterweight by the time of the first Duran fight. It makes no sense, all of his victories say otherwise.
selfkill. your incoherence is your undoing and talking to you is like trying to talk some upstart who gets upset whenever his ass his handed to him. there is a reason why *******s laugh at you all the time. you can claim all you want but the truth is, you are still another pseudo expert who has been exposed over and over again. after a couple of years, please come back to us with more wisdom and more brain cells ok. you rate duran top 5. well and good.
I agree with your points, but those factor are not all equal in how you rate fighters. Beating Hall of fame great fighters has to be 75 percent or 80 percent of what gets a guy into ATG status-and domination of that fighter- quality of opposition at weight classes matters. Pacman might be able to beat a guy who weighs 210 pounds if the guy has a record of 5-20, but that does not mean that is impressive. Duran is a great fighter, but my point is that he is not 5-10 ATG. Not with his record against Hall of fame fighters. I rated him 20-30 ATG.. More like 25, which I think is great. Also about Duran, he was not that inept at gaining weight and handling upper weight classes. In his title wins against Moore and Barkley, it was his punching power which won him those fights. Against Ray he was big enough, and even with Hagler he was not that much smaller. I read somewhere that Hagler and Duran made a commercial in 1983, and when people saw how Hagler was not much bigger than Duran, the thought about them fighting became more plausible. Fact is most great fighters move up. Hearns went from 147 to 190 at professional. Duran from 135-168. Jones from 160-200 (some say 154, but he did not win a title there). I am mentioning moves where they first won a world title. Duran ranks high in resume, but what ranks a guy ATG is who you beat- no matter what. I don't care if the guy fought Ali,Hearns,Duran,Leonard,Jones and Pacman. If he lost to all of them he is not ATG just because he fought them. Longevity is good but some fighters can fight forever, yet still lost significant fights. Holmes and Hearns and Camacho and Duran did fight long into their careers, but I do not think they rank much higher because of it.
at the end of the day. its resume for me. who you fought and if you won or not. :good:good:good dlh has one of the best resume although he lost a lot of great fights to fighters in their prime like mosley, tito (i thought dlh won). he also won agains pernell and jcc. both were past it. longevity is a factor but a minor one.