who was better in his era?! pac or duran?!

Duran was much smaller than the other members of the Fab Four.

Duran ----> 5' 07.0" ------ 66" reach
Hagler ----> 5' 09.5" ------ 75" reach
Leonard --> 5' 10.0" ------ 74" reach
Hearns ---> 6' 01.0" ------ 78" reach
Pac ------> 5' 06.5" ------ 67" reach

Duran is smaller than Mayweather (5' 8", 72"). Think about Mayweather fighting Hearns or someone like Iran Barkley. Hell, think about him fighting Hagler.

Duran is roughly the size of Pacquiao. I can't imagine Pacquiao, as much as I admire him, fighting someone like Hagler or Barkley.

Both fighters are all-time greats. One difference between the two men is that Duran liked to destroy his opponents. Pacquiao is nicer than that, he actually will ease up on guys when he could finish them off.

Pacquiao is faster.

Duran beat one of the all-time greats in Leonard at 145 pounds. I know he lost the rematch, and Ray didn't fight his fight, but you have to give Duran big props for winning that bout at a weight that was about 10 pounds north of his absolute best.

It's a tough call. Wish they could have fought, though. :good

 

Pac, and it isn't even close. Duran stepped up and lost to the all of the top fighters of his era. Pac stepped up and dominated. Duran also lost to the not so best fighters of that era too.

Duran was a beast... but one of the most overrated fighters EVER, imo.

 

duran is better head to head, but pac is more dominant in this era than duran.

how can duran be more dominant if he lost most of his fights with fab 4?

 

people look back on the past with rose tinted glasses on and hold past fighters with a higher regard to present fighters. ofcorse me suggesting who would win is just speculation but with the conditioning nowadays i see pac beating duran at 135 - 147

 

Duran terrorised an entire division for the best part of a decade & settled it once & for all by KO'ing WBC titlist Esteban DeJesus in the rubber match & final fight at 135 as Undisputed Champion which he was all but in name since 74 when he KO'd DeJesus in a WBA defence. Back then it was only 2 governing bodies WBA/WBC. Taking nothing away from Pacman but it's differnent times & politics today with plenty of bogus title's given out to please HBO & there like.

All of the top 10/20 of the WBA/WBC back in the 70's would all get their hands on an alphabete title today & thats why you don't have contenders in this era you have titleists. Duran had 2 careers, At lightweight & above, after beating P4P olympic goldenboy SRL then Duran was well into 70+ fights. It's Duran all the way, but by todays standards Manny has done what he's had to do & some. He's a "phenom" avoided no one & fought them all, Pac's the same age now that Duran beat Davey Moore at 154 & Duran then went onto & fought the 160 superbeast in Hagler & just got squeaked out of it over 15 rounds, gets KO'd by Hearns & then pulls of a fistic miricle by decking & beating a monster in Iran Barkley for the lineil160 WBC title at the age of 37 & this is the same Barkley that had just wrecked Tommy "Hitman" Hearns in 3 rounds.

Duran dominated the 70's at 135 & in the 80's at 29/32 & 37 years of age he won 3 more title's well north of his dominant weight division. But Pacmans been on the top tier now for 8 years & if he can somehow get Mayweather to fight him & beat him, then it's going to have to be looked at again. 2 side's the the one coin here. Both are Legends in their own right & era.

 

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Pac, definitely.

Th question is not asking who is the better fighter, merely the more dominant in their era. That's how I understand it anyway.

 

this is why nobody listen what *******s have to say

 

Duran never asked for a catchweight, thats why I vote for him

 

Sorry who are the fighters who Pac fought at 144 145 147 or whatever other catchweight Pac has asked for you comparing with Hagler SRL and Hearns again :happy

 

If the official weigh-in would be done on the same day of the fight as it was during Duran's era, Pac would have beaten Oscar, Cotto, Clottey, Margarito and Mosley at 154 just as easily. He would also beat Maravilla at that weight in similar manner!:deal

 

For the record, Pac didn't ask Oscar for a catchweight, It was Oscar who asked to fight him at 147. Pac weighed-in at 142 expecting to be 146-147 in the ring to fight a 155 lb+ Oscar. Pac's only catchweight fights were Cotto and Margarito both of whom outweighed him by 10 lbs and 17 lbs during the actual fight!

If the official weigh in today would be done on the same day of the fight as it was in Duran's time, Pac would have beaten just as easily the bigger fighters he had already beaten even at 154.

 

This is the mindset of many of todays fight fans:nut