Comments Thread For: Duran: In My Era, Mayweather Would've Been Ordinary

[Goldie]

Biased when i am stating the truth the judges saved floyd from castillo fight castillo 2 is pointless to bring up even if pbf was to have stopped castillo on the first punch of The second fight it doesn't change the fact that he lost the first. You are the biased one bringing out how pbf beat him the second time around justifying castillos 1 gift to floyd

Obviously you don't know what a fact is, maybe you should find a dictionary. The fact of te matter is that Floyd won both Castillo fights. Your opinion is that Castillo won and I respect that opinion because it was a close fight. Your opinion doesn't = fact though. Smarten up.

[Frank Ducketts]

Biased when i am stating the truth the judges saved floyd from castillo fight castillo 2 is pointless to bring up even if pbf was to have stopped castillo on the first punch of The second fight it doesn't change the fact that he lost the first. You are the biased one bringing out how pbf beat him the second time around justifying castillos 1 gift to floyd

The first fight wasn't even close was it? It was a clear win for Castillo huh, lmao. Yeah right.

[periks19]

That is beside the point. How many other fighters do you know that knocked Chico down 5 times? I believe Floyd could have put his foot on the gas and got Miguel Cotto out of there in the 12th. This is the guy who beat the great Marquez 120-108! Juan Manuel Marquez doesn't get shut out very often!

Do yo really praise for pbf whitewashing JMM. A fight he had no business taking on top of that cheating him on weight?? To me tjats not impressive pike i have told everyone how would pbf do against ward and then gets cheated on weight. **** he even put a stipulation on canelo to penalized him for millions over lbs over the limit. **** so if canelo was to show up at 154 he will be penalized alot for defending his 154 belt crazy huh?

[ssc73]

He's an ATG and Hall of famer..I respect his opinion. You should too even if you don't agree with it. This guy has actually lived boxing first hand not through some keyboard...I think he knows more about the sport than we can ever imagine grasping. He's also right about they were used to everything in the ring, boxers didn't train for one solitary game plan back in the days which is why we have so many classics to look back on. Many of those guys fought to their strengths but could change it up if need be to win the fight. Guys today not so much..you have guys changing their entire fighting style years into their careers and struggling with those changes.

EXCELLENT!

Someone said Duran struggled with boxers?? Apparently you missed the LW portion of his career........he WALKED THROUGH THEM.........it's like rating Robinson and only talking about his career AFTER WW.......

If you think Duran couldn't hang with a boxer, you don't know much about Duran.......see his first title fight...........or ANY fight on US soil afterwards where they were trying to find a style to make him struggle. THERE WASN'T ONE..........

[Frank Ducketts]

Everyone thinks that Duran insulted only Floyd because he said Floyd's name. He insulted this entire era. He said that Floyd would've been ordinary. What does that say about the rest of the era? You don't care. He dissed Floyd and that is all that counts, lmao.

[WalkerSmith1921]

SRR was and will always be the best

this isn't basketball or football....


the greatest boxer's of all time existed 50 years ago....

boxing's evolution is not like other sports....

a lot of the coaching and technical aspects have been lost through the generations and most guys today don't know to fight....

Floyd's been taught the old school style, and most other fighters are garbage.... Floyd could hang with the greats, but today's fighters are not in anyway as good as those of yesteryear

I agree with everything you said except that the greatest boxers go back even further than 50 years and instead 70 plus years; because the greatest of all was Sugar Ray Robinson aka Walker Smith. You also had Willie Pep, Kid Gavilan, Archie Moore, Ezzard Charles, Jersey Joe Walcott, Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, Jake Lamotta, Carmen Basilio, Jose Napoles and so many more.

[Frank Ducketts]

And you have fanatics justifying Duran's opinion as fact.

[prinzemanspopa]

Duran could have gone dirty with nut shots and dragged Leonard into the gutter........but he respected the sport more than that.......

Duran's desire to uphold the sports dignity and honor never prevented him from winning his first world title via a blatant and flush shot to the nuts. Didn't stop him from obtaining an advantage early on by thumbing Davey Moore in the eye during their fight. And if you think turning your back mid-fight, throwing your arms up and quitting in a truly significant bout is "respecting the sport", more power to you.

[Hop]

A lot could be said here. How Floyd would stack up to the 'Four Kings' (or three, if you want to exclude Hagler) is a fun and interesting boxing discussion that will probably continue to surface in threads like this for many years to come.

For now I'll just say two things:

1) I think Leonard had faster hands than Floyd, and delivered many more punches in bunches than FM, and ...

2) I recently watched Mayweather - DLH closely and scored it round by round. My final tally: 115-114, Mayweather.

[ssc73]

The first fight wasn't even close was it? It was a clear win for Castillo huh, lmao. Yeah right.

Actually both fights were close........