Comments Thread For: The Beltline: Roberto Duran made brawling both artful and beautiful

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It's 45 years to the day since Roberto Duran unveiled his masterpiece - the epic 15-round victory over Sugar Ray Leonard
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[CPNUTKnockoutFreshMart]

It really is a beautiful thing to watch a great inside fighter at work. Duran and James Toney are two of my all time favorites. They would move just enough to make you miss , and BAM , here came the receipt !

[eco1]

It really is a beautiful thing to watch a great inside fighter at work. Duran and James Toney are two of my all time favorites. They would move just enough to make you miss , and BAM , here came the receipt !

I saw him fight when I was a kid.
The only bad thing was that there were too much politics involved when he was fighting.

One small example:

For the 2nd SRL fight, Omar Torrijo's brother made a bet against him.
I remember my father sitting at the time with my uncle talking about this.
My uncle was working with in the DR government at the time and the news ran like fire, they all knew what was going on in Panama at the time with Omar Torrijo's brother.

[HandsofIron]

His Excellency.

[ShoulderRoll]

The most brilliantly skilled of all the pressure fighters. It’s a testament to him but also to Ray Arcel and Freddie Brown who trained him, just goes to show how much boxing IQ the old “American school” used to possess.

[champion4ever]

For my money; The “Brawl in Montreal was Roberto Duran’s best performance ever and career defining moment. It was the best I’ve ever seen him look.

On that night; He defined what true effective aggressiveness was. His upper body movement was just superb and second to none.

He proved that a fighter can hit without getting hit while fighting on the inside without running.

[BlackRobb]

Yes, until he ran into the Tommy Hearns right hand...

[trippleupper]

Ok but neither Duran nor Toney were brawlers.
They were artists, very precise.