Pacquiao and Roberto Duran.

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You're a damn fool.

why am i a damn fool?

[Deja_Vous]

why am i a damn fool?

Fanny Pac isn't good enuff to carry Duran's spit bucket.

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Fanny Pac isn't good enuff to carry Duran's spit bucket.

read the post clearly... damn man...

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Fanny Pac isn't good enuff to carry Duran's spit bucket.

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I've heard it often from older fans that aren't on boxingscene.

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Duran and Pacquiao Weight class movement is nothing alike. Duran started at light WW and got to LH and Paquiao started at SW and got to WW.

I think he meant how much they both moved up. Duran started at super bantamweight or 122 pounds and moved up to LHW, whereas Pac started at 106 and moved up to WW. Similar. They still fight completely different though.

Someone said Duran was a slow, conventional fighter. I agree that he was conventional but he was anything but slow. The old, fat Duran after WW was slow, but the LW was very fast. Not slow by any means. He was actually one of the fastest fighters around at that time. Check out De Jesus 1 for a good example of his speed. If that's slow, then there isn't really anyone that you could consider fast apart from maybe prime Jones Jr, Leonard etc.

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I think he meant how much they both moved up. Duran started at super bantamweight or 122 pounds and moved up to LHW, whereas Pac started at 106 and moved up to WW. Similar. They still fight completely different though.

Someone said Duran was a slow, conventional fighter. I agree that he was conventional but he was anything but slow. The old, fat Duran after WW was slow, but the LW was very fast. Not slow by any means. He was actually one of the fastest fighters around at that time. Check out De Jesus 1 for a good example of his speed. If that's slow, then there isn't really anyone that you could consider fast apart from maybe prime Jones Jr, Leonard etc.

the old, fat & way over the hill duran was still good enuf to beat sum1 like jorge castro & regardless of what the judges saw, hector camacho...

[BennyST]

of course he's not duran. no one or at least im not claiming to think pacquiao is duran or better but u have to be blind not to think there are no similarities.

Kobe is no michael jordan but u have to admit there are so many similarities.

I do admit that duran is the better fighter technically. but Pacquiao trumps him in arsenal of punches.

No, no, no. Duran was so good because of his arsenal of punches and his defense in throwing them. Straight rights, hooks, uppercuts, body punching, leads, and counters, he did them all perfectly. Pac is great but the one thing he doesn't have is the technical skill and range of punches that Duran had. Pac has only just started using a good right hook recently and before that he was a one trick pony.

Pac is still reasonably limited in what he throws, but he throws those punches very well. The reason Duran was able to fight guys twice his size was because he could do so much. Box from the outside with a good jab and counters etc, fight on the inside with short range hooks and uppercuts etc, and just stand and trade with power shots.

[BennyST]

the old, fat & way over the hill duran was still good enuf to beat sum1 like jorge castro & regardless of what the judges saw, hector camacho...

Yeah that second fight was a bad, bad decision. I think they just wanted Duran to give it in so they gave it to the guy that was still fighting and reasonably young....well, comparatively anyway.

[Potential]

that bum Duran isnt on Pacquioa's league, no comparison