why did Duran never fight...

Why am i not surprised you too have seen it. You lived my era to the hilt boxing wise, great stuff.

 

Alexis was asked if he could have beaten Duran had they fought, and he replied that he didn't beleive that he could.

Alexis was a fan of Duran and as Duran moved up in weight and challenged heavier champions, you can see him in the first few rows. He seemed to be alone, cheering for Duran. He was at Montreal and I believe he was at the Hagler fight as well. He was the Nicarguan waving the Panamanian flag.

 

I have pics of him in the crowd at the Hagler fight, not far from Tommy Hearns.

 

Damn. We've gotta stop dating ourselves!

 

Holmes and his wife were near Hearns as well.

 

Gabe Kaplan was near him too. "Welcome Back, Kotter".

 

Ah spot on! I do indeed remember that Robbi.

 

I have an issue of Boxing Illustrated from 1978 with a 'superfight' preview actually mate, so the ball* was definitely in motion. Duran wins KO 13. Slightly ahead on cards.




* It was a meatball, Duran ate it.


Cue: Tumbleweed.

 

LMFAO!!!! Incidently i agree, bad stylistic match for Alexis. I do know word was Arguello was thinking of stepping up, just thought it didn't quite get that close. Good info you two

:good

 

Dag, Gabe a boxing fan.

 

Duran beats them all, mostly by TKO or KO unless they run there ass off

 

Too many give Pryor too much credit, LOL!, I lived in cincin and worked out at his 2 gyms there for years during his run, I was a gofer in his camp, get food and things when they needed it, I saw all but 1 Pro fight in person, 40% or so of his Amateur bouts, he could not take a big punch without something in his system like his amphetamine mix to keep him up via Arguello's fight, he never fought any other guy with power, except Dujuan Johnson and he was only a decent power guy, Cervantes was at the end and still put him down, he ran from a stacked LW division to the worst in boxing at jww. he even never unified the JWW title with Saoul Mamby during his run. Duran offered him $750,000 on his way from LW to WW so saying Duran too heavy to fight him just has no clue about boxing and what they are talking about, that comment was funny. Pryor's camp never replied to the Duran offer, they let the time limit on it expire and Duran moved on up, Duran would have KNOCKED PRYOR Senseless even with drugs in his system, he was downed 8 times in his career by bums, he avoided all hard punchers, well his camp did for him, he had no 1 punch power, his punches were accumulated to KO most fighters and everyone he fought was a BUM< everyone, Cervantes at the end and Arguello over his best weights and over 30 and slowing down, but still should have Knocked him out, look at that perfect right hand that sent Pryor's head straight back and it touched his back it bent so far back and he just smiled and came forward, that punch should have ended that fight, or at leat put him down, as did 8 other guys, but it never fazed him. Loi outboxes him in a Fantasy matchup, Duran Ko'S him big time. ortiz wins a UD and without drugs holding him up, ARGUELLO VIA KO> but alexis should have made him come down to LW 1st. One of the few bouts you will ever see Pryor Clean was the bobby joe young bout, which was I think at WW, but either way he was clean, he fought like the same old Pryor, just no drugs to hold him up and keep his stamina going, so he lost easily to so-so fighter in young, that's how Pryor would have looked at any point in his Career clean against any ATG. in Cincinnati, we all loved Pryor, a super exciting fighter, it would have been great to see him fight anyone, but we also knew his limitations as did his own camp, Aaron was the only one that thought he could beat anyone. I always wanted to see him fight Mancini, for the Ohio Title, it would have been a War for a few rounds it lasted, Aaron should have won it, but with the punches flying anything could happen, manicni had more power than 99% of the guys Pryor faced. Duran Outpoints Arguello, also Loi and Ortiz.

 

It's already been said he was never really in a position to fight Pryor. During Aaron's prime Duran was already fighting at 154.

Arguello lost whilst the fight was being talked about and lost the opportunity in 78

Carlos and Lui retired before Duran was in a position to fight them.

 

That's totally incorrect, Duran's people offered Pryor a $750,000 deal

 

I knew I had the info somewhere, here it is.
In December 1980, Pryor rejected an offer of $500,000 to fight Sugar Ray Leonard for the WBC welterweight championship because he wanted more money. When the WBC raised the offer to $750,000, he rejected that as well.[3] Pryor signed to fight WBC light welterweight champion Saoul Mamby in a unification bout for $1 million. The bout was tentatively scheduled for February 7, 1981. However, the fight fell apart when the promoter, Harold Smith, disappeared amid allegations that he was involved in a $21.3 million fraud against Wells Fargo National Bank. Smith, whose real name was Ross Fields, was later sentenced to ten years in prison after he was convicted of 29 counts of fraud and embezzlement.[4][5]

Pryor was then offered $750,000 to fight Roberto Duran in April 1981, but Pryor turned it down because his new attorney told him not to sign anything until he worked out a new contract with manager Buddy LaRosa. By the time they worked out a new agreement, the chance to fight Duran was gone.[6]