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

[Frank Ducketts]

mayweather competes with the best in any era from 130-140 just as Duran. they were/are great fighters who won titles at 147 and 154 but not great fighters at the weight all time. Both are past prime and undersized at the weights. Their skill sets allowed them to be successful at the higher weight.

Durans best years were from the early 70's-early 80's and Mayweather would be favored to beat all of the fighters from 130-140 in that era. Benitez was a phenom but was seperates him and Mayweather is his work ethic. No one in his era was undefeated in the early 80's at welterweight.

Mayweather could compete with them, i believe with the huge size discrepency Hearns would be too much and favored to win by k.o. Mayweather at his best day at welterweight say between 2005-2007 could PULL out wins against one, 2/3, or even all of Duran, Benitez a and Leonard. He would have been in the mix, but no one really dominated that era and Hagler was a true middleweight that wouldnt have happened anyway.

Very good post.

[Suckmedry]

Duran's opinion and he's entitled to it. People on this site are so ******ed, main reason i dont post much.

[tibbar]

We don't even know if floyd would have even fought the best guys for starters.

Yeah, yeah and Mayweather will say the same kind of thing about whoever is dominating twenty years from now. Nothing to talk about because most of the great fighters say that about the next generations.

And floyd will be laugh at much more when he say that twenty years from now nyahahahaha theyll prolly say " Floyd who? Floyd the rip-off who ducked every opponents thay may have a chance to beat his azz, the pretender who throw everything including the sink just to block a fight with the Destroyer Pacman Paquiao? the baby-momma beater (dont defend him on this he was jailed for it aint he?)? the rich coward (dont ever think of defending him in this either, he claimed that for himself), the guy who challenged a lower weight jmm to go up yet he opted to pay penalty for not complying with the agreed catchweight? yeah he can try and talk about the next generation and see how will they talk back to him, that will be funny as s..t nyahahaha

[edgarg]

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

Listen Drank, why do you bring Pacquiao into it. The article is about Duran's comment that Mayweather in his era would have just been "ordinary'. Or perhaps you've been caught up in so many different battles that you don't know any longer which way is "up"...if you ever did.....

Was it you who was querying Duran's comment as being "only an opinion". Of course an averagely intelligent person would know that Duran just didn't burst onto the world news with his comment, he was obviously questioned by a reporter.

My answer is that, whether you (?) acknowledge it or not, Duran is one of the top 3 Lightweight champions in Boxing History; Joe Gans, Benny Leonard, and Roberto Duran. An All time Great. We rarely have one as young still with us. So, his comment, whilst still "opinion" as you say, is the closest thing to certainty as we'll ever get from the greatest analysts who write 50-60 years after a fighters career is ended. He's here right now and likely has seen Mayweather a dozen or twenty times, courtesy of whichever promoter is doing the fight.

So put that in your pipe and smoke it...

[richardt]

Hearns would have never let Floyd get past his jab and Floyd is not a come-forward in-fighter. After taking 2 rounds of lightning rod jabs from Hearns, out go the lights. Floyd dropped twice, the last one for the count. Leonard was bigger, faster, stronger and fought every style. Leonard would stop Floyd late or take a solid decision. 1980 Duran was superior in every way to Castillo and would have smothered Floyd and wore him down and stopped him. Even Cuevas was superior to Castillo and Benitez would have shown speed Floyd has never seen. He beats maybe Cuevas, maybe not. But he beats none of the other guys. Neither does Pac. Nor does Oscar nor does Curry nor does Starling nor does Trinidad. There is no one alive who will ever witness a better Welterweight division than the late 70's, early 80's. I doubt in another 50 years either.

[ADP02]

Floyd would have gone on several very long vacations. That would be guaranteed!

Then Floyd would come back after everyone beat each other up in wars and he would say "no point in fighting those leftovers".

[JoeKidd]

Real precious:

Originally Posted by shade darkar View Post
We don't even know if floyd would have even fought the best guys for starters.

[JoeKidd]

Originally Posted by Frank Ducketts View Post
Duran, Leonard and Floyd murder Pacquiao, now go away.

Floyd murder somebody? Definitely not in the ring!

[JoeKidd]

Here's another question: if Floyd were in the Duran era, who would watch him?

[daggum]

mayweather competes with the best in any era from 130-140 just as Duran. they were/are great fighters who won titles at 147 and 154 but not great fighters at the weight all time. Both are past prime and undersized at the weights. Their skill sets allowed them to be successful at the higher weight.

Durans best years were from the early 70's-early 80's and Mayweather would be favored to beat all of the fighters from 130-140 in that era. Benitez was a phenom but was seperates him and Mayweather is his work ethic. No one in his era was undefeated in the early 80's at welterweight.

Mayweather could compete with them, i believe with the huge size discrepency Hearns would be too much and favored to win by k.o. Mayweather at his best day at welterweight say between 2005-2007 could PULL out wins against one, 2/3, or even all of Duran, Benitez a and Leonard. He would have been in the mix, but no one really dominated that era and Hagler was a true middleweight that wouldnt have happened anyway.

don't you find it funny that floyd's "best" is when he fought mitchell, judah, and baldomir? why not include gary russell and his best against all the bums he fought?