Comments Thread For: Roberto Duran: I Would Have Busted All of Mayweather's Ribs!

[!! Shawn]

If he quit because he couldn't hit a "dancing" Sugar Ray then he can forget about every beating Floyd!

In a fight where Sugar had people watching him, and scheduled the fight where Duran had to spend the entire camp making weight.

[Reloaded]

Yet the slow Maidana, who is Duran in slowmo without hte intelligence or power, gives Floyd a difficult fight.

You think this was prime Floyd lol .

People of this era cannot see the greatness in Mayweather because he is hated so much , searching for everything negative they cannot see whats positive .

2 things Floyd is never given credit for .

1) Toughness , Floyd is no coward and can hang with anyone in the trenches when he has to , I seen the same sht said about Cassius Clay being a coward that runs , Clay turned out to have one of the greatest chins in boxing and their was no quit in him , how did we know that because Ali got old and had to weather the storm .

Floyd has never showed a weakness to **** on the inside and has never shown a weak chin .

Something about truly great fighters , when they must they hang real tough .

2) Floyd ability to not get hit , its a valid argument to say there really is no greater defensive fighter in history .

Like I said they are both great fighters and the winner will be the one that turns up firing on 12 cylinders .

Mayweather is sooooo underrated in all these fantasy fights , he might lose but he could also win it .

[champion4ever]

Lower body movement? Everyone that gave Floyd trouble ****** him to the body. Castillo, DLH, Maidana, Cotto.

Floyd isnt a runner or a mover, his defense is predicated on having his balance set, and ready to defend. Moving means you might get caught off balance. He is great at moving after punches are thrown, but guys with the ferocity of Duran. They just aren't around anymore. The relentless body attack, with body shots that lift you off the ground. And then his intelligence. Duran was not a dumb fighter, he was brilliant. As gifted technically as Floyd, although fighting a different style. His defense was superb, his reflexes were great, his counter punching, his body punching, his fluidity.
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All Floyd would have had to do is to keep the fight in the center of the ring and stay off the ropes. He would have potshot Roberto at will. Duran wouldn't have had an answer for the lead right rounds and pull counters Mayweather would have thrown at him

Moreover, Floyd would have kept him at bay with his longer reach, height and foot movement because Roberto was no inside fighter. Therefore he would have had trouble cutting off the ring. Just watch Duran's no mas fight against Leonard as reference.

Also, as far as someone hurting Money to the body, to my knowledge I could not think of a single instance where Floyd was hurt or doubled over from a clean body shot to the body; Whether it was in the Maidana, De La Hoya, Castillo or even the Cotto fight.

Lastly, as far as Duran busting up Mayweather's ribs, then why wasn't he able to do it against Wifredo Benitez? He is very similar to Mayweather slippery style. Yet Benitez taunted Duran while laying on the ropes to bust him up to the rib cage but he couldn't and then you say he would do it against Floyd Mayweather?

[Sledgeweather17]

Floyd won a SPLIT decision vs a old ODH. I can picture pretty boy losing in the real boxing era when there was only one belt per weight division.

OSCAR lost 9-3 in that fight. Teddly Atlas's eyes, Max Kellerman's eyes, my eyes, and all three compu box official's eyes don't lie.

HBO commentators eyes (lol) and paid judges eyes do lie though.

I agree that Floyd should have gone for the knockout when he had Oscar dead on his feet for much of the second half of the fight, in fact, there many fights that he simply did enough to win, and that clouds the perspective of viewers more often than not.

It would be the same against Chavez, Duran, Leonard, and Hearns, he'd do just enough to win and people would cry robbery. Same story, different fighters.

[hugh grant]

Floyd never wanted to test himself against anyone any good, other than smaller fighters, so why ewould he beat someone of Duran's calibre.
Floyd's famous for what he wasdnt prepared to do, not what he's done! If your that good defensively you'd fight GGG for starters. Yoiu might not beat him but at least you wont take punches

[Sledgeweather17]

Lower body movement? Everyone that gave Floyd trouble ****** him to the body. Castillo, DLH, Maidana, Cotto.

Floyd isnt a runner or a mover, his defense is predicated on having his balance set, and ready to defend. Moving means you might get caught off balance. He is great at moving after punches are thrown, but guys with the ferocity of Duran. They just aren't around anymore. The relentless body attack, with body shots that lift you off the ground. And then his intelligence. Duran was not a dumb fighter, he was brilliant. As gifted technically as Floyd, although fighting a different style. His defense was superb, his reflexes were great, his counter punching, his body punching, his fluidity.



Probably the greatest defense of a come forward pressure fighter ever.

He is without a doubt the greatest of the fab 4,



He is also the only contemporary fighter that purists and historians can unanimously agree is a top 10 atg fighter.

Old timers who are dead set that nobody can ever be better than SRR, have no problem listing Duran as the greatest 135lber of all time, a division that Henry Armstrong fought in.

Oscar and Cotto didn't give Floyd any trouble, defaq you talkin bout. Cotto lost the first five rounds straight and only 'appeared' to be in the fight after that coz Floyd started toying with him and fighting him at his own game, and even then Cotto still couldn't manage to string two rounds together and almost got knocked out late on.

Oscar Dela Hoya? Lol, since when is missing, hitting arms and shoulders, and getting sniped all night equal trouble? You think just coz he was gifted a split decision loss that he troubled FLOYD? Lol, get out of here bish. Canelo got an MD too, did he give Floyd trouble too?

Castillo did give Floyd trouble in the first fight thanks to punching after the ref called a break, the head butt he landed in the fourth/fifth round, and clinching the **** out of Floyd to stop his movement, all that without the ref doin nothing. I can count the number of punches that Castillo landed OUTSIDE of a clinch, before the ref called a break, and before the end of the round bell rang, in literally one hand.

Maidana? Bish please, since when is hitting the balls repeatedly, hitting the back of the head repeatedly, using mua thai knees, clinching the waist to stop movement, and rugby tackling, all without getting a single point deducted equal to giving someone trouble?

Yeah bish, that's how great Floyd is, only way to beat him is to cheat and not get warned or punished by the ref.

[torosboxing75]

Duran was far greater then the version of Castillo that beat Floyd and got robbed.
Floyds only defeat IMO.

[KidDinamita]

As much as I love Duran, don't think he will do a number on Mayweather.

[DannYankee]

Fkd up that the name that comes to mind first is No mas Duran instead of hands of stone. STop focusing on the negative brain!

[hugh grant]

Floyd's like marmite you either love him or hate him.
Some historians probably got Floyd top ten. Other historians Floyd probably not in their top 30.