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

[ThatDude44]

What in the actual ****. Mayweather over Hagler, did I just read that correctly?

Haven't you heard that before? Lol

[ssc73]

No, I haven't - I wasn't interested in the rest of what you posted, just the laughable assertion that Duran had too much respect for the sport to resort to dirty, unprofessional tactics (in spite of the fact that he has a history and reputation of such things.)


I think you even tried to suggest that the reason Duran quit was because he (Leonard) was making a mockery of the sport.








If having a "close fight" means getting soundly outboxed and looking like complete and utter sh^t in the process, sure.

Then I'll choose not to read your post since you missed the bigger point........I don't cherry pick one point to try to make myself look superior........

As for the Benitez fight.......it wasn't his best, Benitez clearly won, but it wasn't an easy fight for Benitez.

And I never said Duran wasn't rough in the ring and certainly he used what are called 'old school tricks', which in other words are fouls the ref doesn't see..........but he wasn't going to pull something like a guy like Tyson or Golota would to get out of a fight........that was a bigger point. He just said 'frock it' and left........

That fight was a joke. Both fighters played their parts in it. But it's not something Leonard should be that proud of either. Just like stealing the Hagler fight with 2-3 10 second flurries a round that did no damage...........

SRL was a great fighter. Top 5 WW all-time. BUT.............he's way over-rated for what he did in Duran 2 and vs Hagler and after.

That's my opinion. Nothing you will do or say will change it. He was the 'Golden Boy' of his era...........got over-hyped for shoe-shining, things the same people later hated on Jones for doing.....and got MANY premature stoppages.

People talk smack about Duran having a few off nights at 154.............what did Leonard do at 154 at 34?? He was clowned.



Duran was very inconsistent after LW......doesn't mean he wasn't great. And he beat the **** out of Buchanan, nut shot or not........

[SweetScience]

Damn over 30 pages already lol

[Frank Ducketts]

All the fights you mention for duran were all way past his prime... Dude was just a big name in the 80s much like oscar was in the 2000s, yes oscar could beat a vargas and mayorga but he was overmatched with floyd and manny, hopkins,,,
just like past his prime duran was overmatched vs prime benitz, srl, hearns and hagler...
Duran was fighting prime ATG's giving them tough fights except for hearns, when he was past his prime... FLoyd now has slowed abit and he would have lost to those guys in the 80's as well

Duran gets penalized because all his big fights came after his prime..... So yes he doesnt look to be that good,, but what past prime fighter could compete against ATG's in their prime at their prime weight...
Duran in the 70's was a legit goon....

Good post. I respect Duran and what he has to say, but it's just his opinion of Floyd. I won't dis Duran for that.

People tend to forget that Duran came from almost 200+ lbs to face Hearns. His punch resistance in that fight was terrible because of what he took to lose the weight. Yes Duran got embarrassed, and MAYBE it was a styles fights. But considering who he has taken punches from in the past, maybe it was a little bit of Hearns right hand and Durans diuretics to lose the weight.

The man goes on to out slug Hagler and turn Hagler into a boxer. The same Hagler who destroyed Hearns in 3. Beating Barkley and Moore at his age was legendary. It's those losses to Benitez and Laing that people try to judge Duran. I ain't buying it. I was around.

[Frank Ducketts]

Don't show yourself to be more of a fool than you already have. By the time Duran was Mayweather's age he'd had about 90 fights and was not only a life-long partier, but well worn, battle-scarred and didn't take fighting seriously enough to make weight properly.

Everybody, including you seems to be saying that if a person, say born in 1940, and lives through the Louis, Patterson, Ali, Duran, Hearns, Leonard, Hagler, Holyfield, Jones, Trinidad, periods up to the present, he is not qualified to compare them with the present day, and is automatically classed as a dodo, especially if he doesn't recognise Mayweather's "greatness".

You guys seem to not even realise that living through an era is incomparably greater than just looking at it on old videos. (I'll give you sub-normals a reason you may be able to understand)

When a person lives through an era, (and I'm talking about a past era when they had legitimate experts and loads of good solid commentators who had also lived through past eras) he doesn't just see a fight on TV and then read a couple of reports by at best, barely qualified reporters (compared to those who really made it their SOLE livlihood), he reads probably a dozen major newspaper reports by their own experts, as well as reading good analyses by top grade experts in about 5-6 major boxing magazines.

And he probably was able to see the fight at the time it took place.

There's just no comparison. A REAL fighter like Duran, if he takes it seriously would half kill a "scientist" like Mayweather before the fight was half over. When Mayweather elbowed, Duran would not only elbow back harder, but drop down a low body shot, a thumb or lace across the face during a face "hug", finished off by a solid combination which would cause Mayweather to wonder what the hell he'd got himself into......if he was still on his feet. And whilst he was considering it, Duran would already be back with much more. Duran had a record of 74-1 before losing to Leonard, after having partied for 3 of the previous 4 months, fought anybody and everybody never quibbled about an opponent or tried ro take an advantage like "you-know-who".

You simple minded Maybugs....go away.

Duran, Leonard and Floyd murder Pacquiao, now go away.

[Mayweather41-0]

that is not true

[Frank Ducketts]

Haven't you heard that before? Lol

Hell, I've heard that Pacquiao and Margarito beat Hearns.

[Mr. Fantastico]

real ATG knows floyd is a crying little pretender. LOL

[junior gong]

Lol at the butthurt floms.

[EvilGenius]

Lmao.. well someone is ButtHurt
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