Duran not have a chance to beat Leonard, He beat him once.
The result in the rematch was due to several factors that did hinder Duran's performance.
The first being that the Leonard camp made sure that Duran wouldn't be able to train more then three weeks to get ready for the rematch.
How did they do this. They pretended to have no intrest in a rematch and then came to Duran offering him a huge percentage, I tink the purse split was like 75-25. Of course Leonard was not concerned about the money in this fight. He was just trying to rebuild his name so there would be bigger paydays in the future.
Anyway, Duran of course accepted the offer, the catch being that the fight was going to take place three weeks after Duran was notified of it. The Leonard camp had been planning this for a long time and Leonard was in peak condition comming in.
Another factor is that "Hands of Stone" was not one to stay in shape and watch what he ate when he didn't have too. On top of that, this Duran was realtivly new to making weight at the welterweight divsion so he really did train to fight Leonard in the rematch during those three weeks, He trained to make weight.
Watch Duran's first fight with Leonard and then the rematch. You can tell he's not there to fight in the rematch. It doesn't look like Duran is at all prepared and it cost him.
Mike Tyson by far is one of the most overrated.
The media milked Tyson so much because he won in such and exciting and impressive fashion.
The truth is that EVERYTIME Tyson fought a great fighter he lost. Unless you count Holmes but Holmes was old and comming out of retirement to fight Tyson for a payday.
I used to be a Tyson groupie and it took me along time to grasp this truth.
Some people even have him in their top 10 P4P list of all time great heavies. Look at every other heavy that is considered great and you'll find just about every single one of them accomplished more then Tyson.
Most shocking had to be Jones Tarver because it was "superman" getting ko'd.
Robbie Peden's KO of Nate Campell deserves a mention. I mean has anyone ever heard of someone getting KO'd while doing the hands down chin out taunt to a hurt opponent.
If this wasn't the KO of the year, it was certainly the most humiliating.
As if someone could really answer this. We will have to wait and see if it happens.
Mayweather will be the favorite but not by an extreme margin.
The good thing is that both fighters are with HBO meaning the possiblity of it comming off is very high.
Boxing fans sure love to make hypothetical threads where there is no certain answer.
I vote for Chico, though there is probably some bum out there no one has heard of who hits just as hard if not harder then any champion or contender but is just to slow to use his power.
DLH ran from Tito because he was about to get KO'd
and yes the Byrd-Oquendo was a horrible one
That's completely hypothetical and impossible to know or prove. Only DLH knows.
I my opinion he appeared more gassed. Tito never landed a big shot that was well timed and clean so I doubt he was hurt. Plus moving like DLH did in the first 8 will wear you out faster then throwing punches will.
Anyway, the point is that this was a horrible decision based on the 10-point-must-system. DLH inactivity in the championship rounds was not enough legitamatly sway the decision. Had he been inactive and taken alot of punishment then I could see some 10-8 rounds but that wasn't the case and those rounds shouldn't have been scored 10-8.
it is impossible to knwo..but when u look at evidence (dlh gets wasted in energy as he goes into late rounds and is slower) and tito was connecting more...i think it may have happened...i hate dlh for that..i mean its boxing its his job..f**K!..and he still has the nerve to say..he cruised the last rounds...meaning he knew what he was doing...thats no heart
I don't dissagree at all, DLH seemed to be spoiled after the Camacho fight, I'm suprised he didn't get stopped beofore fighting his daddy (Bernard Hopkins).
The counterside of this fight that alot of people ignore is that Tito couldn't do anyting to an inactive DLH. Tito wasn't landing good shots on DLH at anypoint in the fight. The shots he did land were all of the shoulers,gloves,and top of the head.
DLH Definatly lost the last 4 rounds pulling what appeared to be a heartless stunt, but since Tito could really do anything about it, the rounds shouldn't have been scored 10-8.
So what is it folks?
Probably one of these horrible decisions
Chavez-Whitaker :confused: (A sad day for boxing)
Leonard-Hearns 2 (these should have been some arrests made after this decision)
Tito-DLH (DLH gassed and took the championship rounds off but there is no case for Tito winning in a 10-poinst-must-system)
DLH-Quartey (probably not the worst ever but none the less a terrible decsion)
DLH-Sturm (Horrible decision and just another reason for the Euros to bitch about Americans being biased)
Byrd-Oquendo (not the worst ever but deserves an honorable mention)
Johnson-Gonzales (If you ever wanted to win a fight by getting hit alot more then your opponent, then you'll want to look up the judges who scored this fight.)
DLH-Mosley 2 (probably not the worst but deserves a mention, if boxing was like the NFL and the judges could "review" the fight, this decision would be reversed."
Which rounds in ODLH vs Trinidad were scored 10-8 for Trinidad?
9-12. That's why it was a robbery, DLH clearly won the first 8 and the last 4 had to be scored 10-8 for Tito in order for him to get the decision.
Unless of course some of the judges scored some of the first 8 even which would have been just as absurd as giving Tito 10-8 rounds at the end.