Who beats Roberto Duran ...

[The_Demon]

I would favor no one over Duran at lightweight but Pacquiao and Chavez are 50/50 fights

Are you serious? you are that fucking ******?

If the answer too above questions is yes please stop posting because you actually embarrass yourself with pretty much everything you post,you should try and learn from the good posters on this forum rather than dismissing everything they say simply because you dont understand it

[SCtrojansbaby]

yeah i think though where the sport has regressed most is in the depth of competition, I mean the cream of the crop from today .. your pacs,floyds hopkins, jones jnrs (of a few years back) and the like could certainly mix it with the best of their respective weights from the past, but once you start going past the top two or three the standard drops away massively from say what it was in even the 70s. I guess its mainly cause the sport was bigger 50/60 years ago than it is now, and 1,000 serious guys competing against eachother results in a much tougher top twenty than just 100 serious guys competing.

In the United States

[fitefanSHO]

The Chavez who beat Rosario at 135 would have as good a chance as any fighter I can think of.

[StarshipTrooper]

Guys fight less today, I'll give you that. But how have athletes gotten more advanced? Nutrition and weight training have changed, but those guys still had to get in a ring and punch each other silly. And in this sport, toughness matters more than athleticism anyway, so even if I give you the point that athletes are "more advanced" today (I don't agree necessarily) so what? Who's the better athlete, Miguel Cotto or Zab Judah? Cotto beat that ass regardless, just because he's the tougher, grittier fighter. Same thing happened again when Cotto and Margarito fought. Superior athlete gets run down by a dude too hard for him.

Not only that, in practically every major sport skill trumps athleticism. Who's tearing up the NBA playoffs right now? A relatively unathletic white dude with a lot of skill named Dirk Nowitzki. Where's the superior athlete Kobe Bryant? Sitting on his azz at home.

It's really besides the point anyway: Of all the major sports boxing is the one where "athleticism" has the LEAST impact.

Poet

[RubenSonny]

Not only that, in practically every major sport skill trumps athleticism. Who's tearing up the NBA playoffs right now? A relatively unathletic white dude with a lot of skill named Dirk Nowitzki. Where's the superior athlete Kobe Bryant? Sitting on his azz at home.

It's really besides the point anyway: Of all the major sports boxing is the one where "athleticism" has the LEAST impact.

Poet

I loved every minute of that sweep.

[SCtrojansbaby]

Of course skill matters. But for example Floyd Mayweather has every skill you could want + the benifits of modern science and technology.

[talip bin osman]

on his best night at Lightweight .... (needless to say I'm on a bit of a duran viewing binge at the moment ... ouch for poor davey moore)

somebody who would offer him plenty of movement and get him out of his comfort zone...

i am not saying they WOULD beat him but i think PEA and PBF will offer him those things and really test him...

beating the guy @ LW is made more difficult with master strategists ray arcel and freddie brown on his side... damn...

[LeG00N]

you would have to completely out box him and move alot...


maybe Whitaker ,De La Hoya or Floyd if he didn't catch them in the later rounds

[RubenSonny]

you would have to completely out box him and move alot...


maybe Whitaker ,De La Hoya or Floyd if he didn't catch them in the later rounds

Erm no.......

[Boxing Bob]

there are some who have a chance, but when Duran was at his best lightweight form I would NEVER bet money against him