Prime for Prime!!! At 135!!! Mayweather vs. Duran!

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duran by late ko

[TheGreatA]

I'll make my case with the help of youtube, as usual...


Mayweather vs Castillo


Duran vs Leonard


The Castillo rematch was not an easy fight for Mayweather either although he clearly won.

[THE REED]

floyd at 135, is just, unbelievably fast....

[Xplosivo]

I'll make my case with the help of youtube, as usual...


Mayweather vs Castillo


Duran vs Leonard


The Castillo rematch was not an easy fight for Mayweather either although he clearly won.

y dun u post hiz fightz with buchanan n estban de jesus, maybe u wud pick those 2 guyz to beat mayweather az well

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y dun u post hiz fightz with buchanan n estban de jesus, maybe u wud pick those 2 guyz to beat mayweather az well

because castillo is better than those guys

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Mayweather UD!

[TheGreatA]

y dun u post hiz fightz with buchanan n estban de jesus, maybe u wud pick those 2 guyz to beat mayweather az well

Buchanan and De Jesus are two hall of famers and both were great champions.

Unfortunately for them, they had to face Roberto Duran. Otherwise they would've been the best lightweights of their era.


Duran vs DeJesus II


20 year old Duran vs Buchanan

Duran was the best at pressuring, cutting off the ring and forcing his opponents to fight him.

[mECHsLAVE]

Duran was at his best at welter and below, and you'd have to pick him over just about anyone from welter to lightweight.

Mayweather benefited from being brought up as a fighter and keeping his weight unnaturally low, so he could compete with smaller framed fighters at lightweight, and from weigh-ins the day before as someone else mentioned.

Duran's experience, toughness, relentlessness, etc etc... would just be too much for Mayweather. I mean, Castillo is like a poor man's Duran, and Mayweather was lucky to get out of those fights with wins, esp the first one. SRL is unquestionably the greatest fighter of the last generation, and Duran beat him, and could've beat him the second time if he hadn't gotten caught up in Leonard's game. Mayweather would have a tremendous reach advanatage over the smaller Duran, like Leonard did, but I just don't see that overcoming Duran's will. Mayweather with that shoulder roll, and laying back on the ropes and bending down that the refs now let him get away with, and fighters seem to get frustrated with....well, Duran would just light him up every which way when he did that. Floyd would have to fight eventually, and Duran wears him down and probably stops him late, or wins a UD.

Now DLH v Duran, primes, that's a debate maybe. But I'd like Duran over Mayweather, all day every day, and twice on Sundays.

[Boxinguru]

Tough fights to pick, both fighters were great at that weight...I lean towards Duran in a close but CLEAR UD!

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Duran was at his best at welter and below, and you'd have to pick him over just about anyone from welter to lightweight.

Mayweather benefited from being brought up as a fighter and keeping his weight unnaturally low, so he could compete with smaller framed fighters at lightweight, and from weigh-ins the day before as someone else mentioned.

Duran's experience, toughness, relentlessness, etc etc... would just be too much for Mayweather. I mean, Castillo is like a poor man's Duran, and Mayweather was lucky to get out of those fights with wins, esp the first one. SRL is unquestionably the greatest fighter of the last generation, and Duran beat him, and could've beat him the second time if he hadn't gotten caught up in Leonard's game. Mayweather would have a tremendous reach advanatage over the smaller Duran, like Leonard did, but I just don't see that overcoming Duran's will. Mayweather with that shoulder roll, and laying back on the ropes and bending down that the refs now let him get away with, and fighters seem to get frustrated with....well, Duran would just light him up every which way when he did that. Floyd would have to fight eventually, and Duran wears him down and probably stops him late, or wins a UD.

Now DLH v Duran, primes, that's a debate maybe. But I'd like Duran over Mayweather, all day every day, and twice on Sundays.

too bad he was almost systematically outweighed on fight night, even at 130. you can probably find 5 fights in all of his career, where Maywaether took more advantage of day before weigh ins, more than hte guy standing in the other corner.

get your facts straight.