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We all know that Leonard chose to fight Duran at his own game, toe-to-toe. In the second fight when Leonard fought his own fight, Duran didn't stand a chance. Floyd is too smart to go toe-to-toe with a puncher. When has Floyd ever done that? Why would he do it against Duran out of all punchers?Comment
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This forum makes me cringe sometimes. Floyd's alright, but man I can't stand his ****riding cheerleaders. Now Duran is another one of Floyd's fantasy fight victims? This site needs an age requirement.Comment
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Exactly what I been saying since I got on boxing scene.
Duran was great. When he fights TECHNICAL boxers, he turns to ****. Floyd is the type who will pot shot and retreat the ENTIRE fight.
Duran cannot and WILL NOT beat Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Duran is the only guy of the fab 4 era, I think Floyd etches out of history, if Floyd was fighting back then.Last edited by F l i c k e r; 02-04-2010, 10:37 PM.Comment
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Whole article here,like I said burner,you dont know your history,son,so you have no business chatting **** about something you know f.uck all about.
Leonard felt those hands in their first meeting, in Montreal in June 1980. Duran had been lightweight champion from 1972 through '78, finally moving up to engage America's sweetheart for his welterweight title. It was a brutal bout, Leonard drawn into a street fight he never wanted. But if Leonard wasn't smart, losing for the first time in his career, he became a genius in arranging the rematch. Duran says he gained 50 pounds that first month out of the ring and that the Leonard camp rushed him into a return bout five months later. " Leonard, he was back in the gym immediately," Duran says. "I was completely different from him. While he was training, I was dancing in the discotheques. They knew it, too."
Duran, as usual, was in no position to negotiate the date or even the money. He needed the dough; there were tax problems. He had just seven weeks of training, some of it in a rubber corset, the last days living on diuretics. He still says it was cramps, not that embarrassing left jab Leonard delivered in the seventh round after pretending to wind up for a bolo punch, that dictated the result. "Frustrated? No, that's how Leonard fights," he says, dismissing the armchair psychologists who claim he quit in protest over Leonard's insistence of style over substance. "My stomach was paralyzed." He even pulls up his shirt to show the location of his pain. Although he seems to be describing appendicitis, he believes it was the hot coffee he drank right before the fight, coming after he had purged (and then, following the weigh-in, gorged), that produced his distress.Last edited by Roger Mellie; 02-04-2010, 10:39 PM.Comment
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