Posted on 09/18/2013 8:16:33 PM PDT by South40
Sugar Ray Robinson = the best fighter ever.
Ray Robinson had problems with guys like Jake Lamotta and Carmen Basilio... He’d have no chance against Duran at equal sizes.
The first would have to be the first Liston fight, I would guess, right?
I don’t know ... Duran was at peak form when he said, “No mas.” Sugar Ray Robinson, in 3 decades of boxing never quit like that.
Clay was loudmouth who, in the end, could hardly make a coherent statement...what goes around comes around.
Same with Mike”I will eat your children”Tyson, he WAS pretty good at eating ears though.
Boxing went from a legitimate sport to the same ranking of Wrasslin’.
Duran had some sort of a major stomach problem that day. Prior to that he was something like 80-1, the one loss in a pickup fight to the second best lightweight of modern times, Dejesus, who he flattened in two following matches. Duran was a natural lightweight - junior-welter but was simply good enough to beat up people in heavier weight divisions for a number of years after he’d scared everybody close to his own size into the woodwork.
You make a very persuasive argument. Duran was certainly one of the best.
They'd been carrying Ray Robinson and Ray Leonard look-alikes who were ballpark for Duran's size out in wheelbarrows for eight or ten years prior to that. In 74 Duran had a dozen or so professional fights and DeJesus was the only one who even made it back to the dressing room on his own feet. That included several lightweight title fights and several other fights at 140 or 145.
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