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

[peplz]

everyone knows that, even in this era, the guy has ducked competition like williams, margo, prime cotto and manny

imagine what these guys would have done to floyd?

floyd will forever will be a what if fighter, he spent his whole career avoiding fights that he had a decent chance of losing

Everything you just said are complete lies... Floyd Maywesther is the most lied about and undeservingly discredited athlete in the history of sports

[peplz]

You don't have to take Duran's word for it. You people have your own little brains to decide and see for yourselves. See them all on Youtube like we young people do. SRL's best moments in boxing are miles away from the notorious ducker's. I repeat you don't have to employ your silly little immature fanaticism and see it for yourselves.

Oh wow... You're an idiot

[ThatDude44]

My head is going to explode. What. in. the. actual. ****.

There it is!

[prinzemanspopa]

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

Yes, it was - a clear, comprehensive schooling that nobody but the most ardent of Duran apologists would attempt to dispute.

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........

Right, and how does turning your back during the middle of a championship fight and throwing your hands up like a petulant child equate to having any respect for the sport?

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...........

You're attempting to shift blame onto Leonard for something he had no part in, which is typical of your average Duran fanboy. Leonard didn't quit, Duran did - and would later do the same exact thing against Pat Lawlor.

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

Him beating the sh^t out of Buchanan doesn't change the fact that he commited an illegal and blatant foul in order to end the fight. Yeah, a real shining beacon for professionalism and sportsmanship in boxing.

[ElMeroChingon]

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.

Edgarg, my thoughts exactly



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[TBOGGS78]

You can't knock a guy for the era he was born in. Coming from a guy who quit. I would take that as a compliment.

[TBOGGS78]

So I guess Usain Bolt would be average if he was in the era of Carl Lewis?

[prinzemanspopa]

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.

Or, ya know....maybe it had a little something to do with the fact that Duran, in all of his life, had never faced such a physical freak of nature. A man that stood over six feet, and who possessed such a devastating combination of speed and power.



But I suppose it's a lot easier to excuse such a performance because poor old DOO-RAN wasn't motivated enough to get in shape to fight one of the best fighters in the sport.

[RiC-DiC]

LOL Duran got KTFO by HEARNS FFS! Floyd is the G.O.A.T. Period.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Or, ya know....maybe it had a little something to do with the fact that Duran, in all of his life, had never faced such a physical freak of nature. A man that stood over six feet, and who possessed such a devastating combination of speed and power. Duran had never faced anything even close to that.

Yeah i agree,, styles make fights,,,

If tommy could land on you he is icing you... especially when you are a blown up lightweight like duran....

Hearns was a boxing monster,, if he had a hagler chin, he would be the GOAT