Comments Thread For: No Mas: ESPN’s Look Back at an Infamous Night

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November 26, 1980 was a good day. It was the morning after my hero, Sugar Ray Leonard, defeated my father’s favorite fighter, Roberto Duran. Better yet, Leonard didn’t just win the fight; he got the victory due to the Panamanian’s surrender in the eighth round with the infamous words “no mas.”

As key a phrase in boxing history as “Down goes Frazier,” “I am the greatest,” “Everybody has a plan until they get hit,” or “They can run but they can’t hide,” “No mas” may be the most mysterious of them all, with filmmaker Eric Drath (“Assault in the Ring”) attempting to get to the bottom of the mystery in the latest installment of ESPN’s always compelling 30 for 30 series, which airs Tuesday at 8pm ET. [Click Here To Read More]

[ragingbull1]

Seriously man, who cares. Duran never gave up because he was getting his a55 kicked. He gave up because he couldn't be bothered to run after Leonard all night because he was fighting like a girl '"a f'ing clown" according to Duran. American media turn it in to something completely different! Yawn Yawn Yawn

[Deevel916]

Duran was a no nonsense type of man and fighter. The "no mas" was him basically saying "I'm came to fight. If you want to run, dance, and act like a clown Instead of fighting then I'm out".

[bojangles1987]

I hope this is one of the better 30 for 30 features they've done.

[The Big Dunn]

I watched this fight live and even though Iwas a kid I thought duran was the biggest phaggot ever for quitting like he did just bcause SRL fought smarter than he did the 1st fight.

[bojangles1987]

I watched this fight live and even though Iwas a kid I thought duran was the biggest phaggot ever for quitting like he did just bcause SRL fought smarter than he did the 1st fight.

It's crazy because the fight was close. So strange. Duran had some weird ass psychotic moment or something, or really didn't want to fight that night, I don't know.

[Godsfly]

Seriously man, who cares. Duran never gave up because he was getting his a55 kicked. He gave up because he couldn't be bothered to run after Leonard all night because he was fighting like a girl '"a f'ing clown" according to Duran. American media turn it in to something completely different! Yawn Yawn Yawn

he quit because he couldn't control the pace of the fight and couldn't deal with the style that was in front of him in the 2nd fight.......durran has always made excuses. "ray fighting like a clown" is just another excuse to save face. he couldn't control the pace of the fight so he quit..............

[The Big Dunn]

It's crazy because the fight was close. So strange. Duran had some weird ass psychotic moment or something, or really didn't want to fight that night, I don't know.

Very strange indeed. If I knew more about ******** back then I'd think he was on the take.

It was such a strange thing from a guy who was truly revered in the sport for his toughness. Far worse than Oliver McCall or Golota.

[Godsfly]

It's crazy because the fight was close. So strange. Duran had some weird ass psychotic moment or something, or really didn't want to fight that night, I don't know.

the first fight was razor close.............the 2nd fight was close but you could see that ray had control of the pace & was pulling away. duran couldn't get to him........he then quits. (all because he can't deal with the style)


I'm a old school boxing fan....quitting is one of the worst things that you can do in boxing.

[-EX-]

I'm sure Duran didn't realize the magnitude of what he did by basically saying the hell with this...

I still feel Duran said f this, cuz he was getting embarassed and had NO answer for it...the fight wasn't a spanking but Leonard started showing him up and he couldn't do a damn thing about it...

Lotta people who were around during this fight have passed away, so probably a lot of archive footage but I deff wanna catch this tonight...