How impressive would you say Hearns 2nd rd KO over Duran was?

[champion4ever]

In fairness, Leonard himself has said that he wanted the rematch asap because it was well known thay Duran would blow up between fights. It's also in his autobiography.

So who fault is that? That's on Roberto Duran. He is professional prizefighter and should have conducted and respected himself as such. There's no excuse to party like an animal when you know that your livelihood includes knocking people out for money.

[Doritos]

Look what happened to Mikey Garcia (135er) vs Spence (147er) now imagine a past prime, overweight, short 5'7 ATG lightweight vs a 6'2 ATG 147, 154er who ended his career fighting Cruiserweight.

Stylisticly speaking Hearns was a planet sized piece of Kryptonite to Duran. Duran wouldn't have beat Hearns if he trained 100% at 154 in his prime because his physical attributes just couldn't deal with Hearns.

It's not a knock on Duran, only Hearns could have ever done that to Duran, I'm more impressed that Duran was walking only 30 seconds later from that pinpoint neck snapping punch.

[Doritos]

There are always these excuses from Duran when he loses a fight for not training. First, there was the "No Mas" fight in 1980, then there was the Wilfredo Benitez fight in 1982 and then there is this Thomas Hearns fight in 1984.

Duran is just too stubborn and proud to ever admit that he took an honest asswhoooping from a much superior fighter. Which makes him a chump and a coward in my estimation; Opposite of his all-time great status as a champion.

You just called Duran a chump and a coward on a boxing forum. Sherdogs in the opposite direction.

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Duran fought Hearns Hagler Leonard 4times and went 1-3 He is slightly over rated in my opinion

[champion4ever]

Dude, Duran was fighting guys twice his size in weight classes he had no business fighting at, he peaked at 147. How are you going to fault him for that? Smh.

I'll give you the Thomas Hearns knockout excuse. An in shape or not in shape Duran didn't stand a chance against that version of Thomas Hearns who showed up that night.

However as far as the "No mas" fight and the Benitez fight were concerned; Those were just excuses. He was in shape for those fights.

He made the weight limit for both of them. The problem with Roberto Duran was that he had been broken.

He just simply refused to try in those fights and quit. Judging by his body language he didn't come to compete or win. He just simply showed up to collect an easy payday.

[4truth]

Some of you claiming that Duran's short training camp before SRL/Duran 2 was not a factor should read SRL's book.

[Cobra Curry]

So who fault is that? That's on Roberto Duran. He is professional prizefighter and should have conducted and respected himself as such. There's no excuse to party like an animal when you know that your livelihood includes knocking people out for money.

Of course Duran is responsible for how he behaves but it's not true to say that he was tip top and raring to go in the no mas fight.
Leonard and Mike Trainer went out of their way to ensure that that wasn't the case.

Leonard's words, not mine.

[THEFRESHBRAWLER]

Not only is Duran touted as the best P4P lightweight champion of all-time but is also considered one of the best P4P fighters of all-time too and yet it was also the first and only time that he had ever been flattened before; Stretched out on the canvas motionless.

He’s over rated

[champion4ever]

You just called Duran a chump and a coward on a boxing forum. Sherdogs in the opposite direction.

He makes himself out to be that way because it takes a real man to admit failure and defeat. To this day, he has never or yet to give Sugar Ray Leonard the full credit he deserved for defeating him in their rematch.

However, Leonard displayed a touch of class in his loss to Duran in the "Brawl Montreal" fight; Where he stated that Duran was the better man that night and that he gave it his all but came up short.

That took a reservoir of both courage, will and fortitude to admit defeat and Leonard possessed all those qualities but Duran does not.

[HandsofIron]

I'll give you the Thomas Hearns knockout excuse. An in shape or not in shape Duran didn't stand a chance against that version of Thomas Hearns who showed up that night.

However as far as the "No mas" fight and the Benitez fight were concerned; Those were just excuses. He was in shape for those fights.

He made the weight limit for both of them. The problem with Roberto Duran was that he had been broken.

He just simply refused to try in those fights and quit. Judging by his body language he didn't come to compete or win. He just simply showed up to collect an easy payday.

For me, Duran didn't prepare properly when he went to 154, that's all I'll say on that.

Hearns was a beast at 154, no argument there. But Hearns' most impressive KO has to be over Pipino Quevas at 147 as both were prime.

And folks back then were talking how Quevas was going to be the next Mexican great, some even said he was going to be better than Chavez. After Hearns destroyed Quevas, he was never the same again whereas Duran was able to bounce back.