Roberto Duran is literally the most overrated boxer in history

[Ljc]

Durans considerd the greatest lightweight of all time. Lightweight being the most talented deep division in boxing history. Duran started as a skinny Bantamweight before going to feather green as hell and beating arguably the most talented featherweight of all time in Ernesto Marcel. Marcel went on to retire a world champion after beating a prime Alexis Arguelo in his last defence.
Duran still green dethroned hall of fame boxer Ken Buchanan. Buchanan was a beautiful boxer with an ATG jab and tough as hell. Duran also beat Esteban Dejesus twice after losing the first fight. De Jesus was brilliant and also a hall of famer. Both Buchanan and De Jesus were in their prime when Duran beat them.

Duran had a few bouts at welterweight before facing Leonard beating Hall of fame boxer Carlos Palomino. Palomino was tough as nails and a brilliant inside fighter. Duran took him to school

Duran had 71 fights before he stepped up to face Leonard. Only losing one of them. Duran was already a great before he fought Leonard. After he stepped out of lightweight Duran was past his best and fighting much bigger men who also became greats. He beat the 2nd best welterweight of all time. He ran arguably the greatest ever middleweight ever close, he was up on the cards after 12 vs Hagler. Hagler was in his absolute prime as well. Duran even had no right giving master boxer Benitez a tough fight. Old fat Duran defied all the odds by beating the **** out of hot prospect Davie Moore and beating Monster middleweight Iran Barkley. Barkley had previously knocked out Tommy Hearns twice before facing Duran. This is the equivalent of Floyd beating GGG after GGG sparked a future ATG twice which isn't going to happen. Barkley went on to fight at light heavy ffs.

The only boxer to beat the **** out of Duran was Tommy Hearns but he was a freak of nature in those days .

Great post. Duran is one of the very best ever

[pvj]

My son once told me mj was overrated, I was like "WHAT???, we need to talk!" It soon became obvious that his recollections of mj was the wizards mj. Thanks to the internet, we dug a little deeper into mjs past, and he got it.

Suggest u do the same. He did lose to the big names later in his career, hearns, hagler, but when u consider how small he was when he started and the age factor, he had no business even being in that mix.

Im not calling duran mj and I do think his mental and physical preparation sucked at times. Anyone who ever knew, or worked with him, said he took certain training camps off. But definitely earned an ATG status based on what he did accomplish.

[KillaMane26]

Yall gonna put some Respeck on Duran name

[KillaMane26]

.....all tree 100 of yall

[Code Red]

Duran would have broken Floyd in half, that's how overrated he was.

Why would you say this? There is nothing that suggests Duran would "destroy" Floyd. If anything Floyd would probably adjust to his brawling style and outpoint him

[DJ Enerate]

A boxing God.

[DJ Enerate]

Why would you say this? There is nothing that suggests Duran would "destroy" Floyd. If anything Floyd would probably adjust to his brawling style and outpoint him

No he wouldn't. Duran would tie Floyd in knots with his vast array of faints.

[TheUptownKid]

Duran definitely is an atg, very well rounded and solid power. Sound defensively and smart in the ring, could finish a hurt fighter with the best of em. Love duran

[Mikeh333]

Duran is an ATG, and is overrated. He was at his best at lightweight…because he didn’t have to fight Benitez, Leonard, Hearns, and Hagler. Leonard and Benitez didn’t beat him based on size or power - Duran hit harder than both of them put together. Duran just didn’t know how to fight defensively responsible, constantly moving opponents. He was at a loss.

Also, has nothing to do with his fighting skills…but he was a real jerk. A classic bully, he crudely mocked and cursed his opponents, and was utterly graceless and sulking in defeat. He was gluttonous and lazy, and did not possess a work ethic matching his talent. He quit in the most important fight of his life. Not because his life or health was in danger, but because he was a bully and feared failure, and quit to avoid it.

As i said before, he was an ATG, if only because of his early body of work. But he is not the greatest fighter of his era, which many for some reason claim. The idea that he would have beaten Mayweather is laughable. Mayweather made an entire career off beating overly aggressive, easily frustrated and confused fighters.

[Regge]

OP should be banned for such stupid thread.