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

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yep Floyd is a Cherrypicker and Duran is a true legend

There were quite few legends of that time , how many of them quit ?

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Floyd beats 13 of the 16 guys that beat Duran , Leonard Hearns and Hagler are just too good and too big .at 147-160 , 140 is a different matter .

Camacho , Benitez , Paz , Lawlor , Sims , Laing all beat Duran but Floyd cant even box in the class , get out of here lol , Dejesus beat him and was ahead and got caught in the second fight giving Duran loads of trouble and Floyd would box Estebans ears off at LW , you guys are as big of dreamers as you are haters , before you start saying who Floyd cant hang with best you take a look at who beat the guy your hanging your hate on .

jeezus you guys are grabbing at straws,,,

CAMACHO, PAZ,LAWLOR duran was like 45 fighting those guys... Why didnt you mention Joppy while your at it...
Duran was past his prime by the 80's... LAing, Sims Benetiz all got him past his prime,,,
Yes dejesus gave duran problems but duran did stop him twice,,,

what you said is like tyson way better than ali,, ali lost to holmes, berbick and mike killed those guys,,,
Thats how sad and pathetic you sound,,,

Im not trying to diss floyd here, just trying to fix some of your bullcrap

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jeezus you guys are grabbing at straws,,,

CAMACHO, PAZ,LAWLOR duran was like 45 fighting those guys... Why didnt you mention Joppy while your at it...
Duran was past his prime by the 80's... LAing, Sims Benetiz all got him past his prime,,,
Yes dejesus gave duran problems but duran did stop him twice,,,

what you said is like tyson way better than ali,, ali lost to holmes, berbick and mike killed those guys,,,
Thats how sad and pathetic you sound,,,

Im not trying to diss floyd here, just trying to fix some of your bullcrap

16 straws beat him , and the point is Floyd can beat the vast majority of them , you understand Floyd is not supposed to be able to hang in his era .

[djtmal]

I can see srl and hearns licking their chops at lil floyd, moving up from 140 to 147. Lol

[Sugar Adam Ali]

16 straws beat him , and the point is Floyd can beat the vast majority of them , you understand Floyd is not supposed to be able to hang in his era .

what era,,, the mid 80's to late 90's where most of his defeats happened,,

do you think a prime duran would lose to paz, lawlor, camacho, etc....

What happens when floyd overstays his career like jones and holyfield and gets a bunch of L's vs guys that couldnt touch floyd in his prime...

very unfair to use duran's losses against him....

Dude had like a 120+ fights,,

how many guys beat Duran at his prime weight in his first 75 bouts,, just dejesus, and leonard and duran has victories over both....

like i have said in this thread before,, floyd would still be a great fighter, but he not be undefeated, he would not be the face of boxing or the biggest draw,, he would be very much like benitez and alexis arguello,, a great defensive counter puncher,,,

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what era,,, the mid 80's to late 90's where most of his defeats happened,,

do you think a prime duran would lose to paz, lawlor, camacho, etc....

What happens when floyd overstays his career like jones and holyfield and gets a bunch of L's vs guys that couldnt touch floyd in his prime...

very unfair to use duran's losses against him....

Dude had like a 120+ fights,,

how many guys beat Duran at his prime weight in his first 75 bouts,, just dejesus, and leonard and duran has victories over both....

like i have said in this thread before,, floyd would still be a great fighter, but he not be undefeated, he would not be the face of boxing or the biggest draw,, he would be very much like benitez and alexis arguello,, a great defensive counter puncher,,,

You pick what ever era you like I was looking at Durans era as his career time frame , but ok lets concentrate on LW where both were prime , Floyd beats all of Durans LW opponents including Dejesus , but he cant hang in that era , that's just fantasy BS , of Durans 75 opponents 65 were average contenders , don't get lost in the numbers take a good look at who they are , its not always about the best fights but the whole lot in perspective .

It was a different time , no great will ever fight on 100 occasions again , those days are gone because the money is so high now , fighting bums every second week is the mainstay of the old legends and people get lost in the numbers .

[Sugar Adam Ali]

You pick what ever era you like I was looking at Durans era as his career time frame , but ok lets concentrate on LW where both were prime , Floyd beats all of Durans LW opponents including Dejesus , but he cant hang in that era , that's just fantasy BS , of Durans 75 opponents 65 were average contenders , don't get lost in the numbers take a good look at who they are , its not always about the best fights but the whole lot in perspective .

It was a different time , no great will ever fight on 100 occasions again , those days are gone because the money is so high now , fighting bums every second week is the mainstay of the old legends and people get lost in the numbers .

I never said floyd would be a bum,, just that he wouldnt be that great in that era,,, and yes fighting every 2 weeks is a thing of the past, even if it is bums, the fights still take a toll on you,, thats why guys of that era are done by the early 30's,... and thats when duran took all the big fights against ATG in their prime at their weight.... Floyd wouldnt win any fights vs SRL, hearns, hagler,,, He would be lucky to even last vs hagler and duran went 15 rounds with him and SRL in slugfests, when duran was past his prime,,
Head to head Duran would bully floyd just like JLC, oscar, cotto did,, but duran is way better than all those cats,, he beats floyd down the stretch...
People act like floyd is some unhittable defender yet i have seen Castillo, augustus, ndou, chop-chop, zab, oscar, hatton, shane, cotto all land on him, and none of those guys were prime ATG's....

Maybe if floyd had fought the big fights, he wouldnt get so much heat, but you cant change history,,,,, floyd had his chance to have an ATG resume but he "retired" and never fought another prime great in his entire career,,, pretty sad

[fistic flow]

Floyd's career is defined by the disappointment of his match-ups in an era of multiple champions. Duran went through a murderer's row of top challengers and champions.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

How many catchweight fights did duran have???????????

Zero,, not one for srl, not one for hearns, not one for hagler, not one for joppy

Floyd got 2

[richardt]

Floyd beats 13 of the 16 guys that beat Duran , Leonard Hearns and Hagler are just too good and too big .at 147-160 , 140 is a different matter .

Camacho , Benitez , Paz , Lawlor , Sims , Laing all beat Duran but Floyd cant even box in the class , get out of here lol , Dejesus beat him and was ahead and got caught in the second fight giving Duran loads of trouble and Floyd would box Estebans ears off at LW , you guys are as big of dreamers as you are haters , before you start saying who Floyd cant hang with best you take a look at who beat the guy your hanging your hate on .

Do you even know how old Duran was when he fought Camacho, Lawlor, and Paz????!!!!!!! And the Duran that fought in 1980 Montreal would have killed De Jesus and Prime Duran would send Jose Luis Castillo to the hospital!! The same guy Floyd barely beat.