@@Thirty. What does that prove? Duran was smaller than all of the four kings and was anywhere from 3-7 years older. Despite this, he had the best individual title reign of any of them, he had the best individual win of any of them (beating Leonard), he faced more top level opposition than any of them, AND he was still able to win belts in 3 other divisions. Hagler and Hearns are great, neither are in the discussion for the top ten greatest fighters of all time. Leonard has a small case for himself, but most leave him out. Duran is the ONLY one of the four kings to CONSISTENTLY make people's top ten list. That should tell you all you need to know about him.
@@reillyhopf6508 couldn’t have said it any better myself , no matter when Duran was on the losing edge of his career he always came back to win. In my opinion Duran has the greatest comebacks of his career. And the guy hated training.
Thank You ,Roberto Duran Fans,you all said it . He,started in the streets of Panama,as Child..... I saw Him on T.V. in the 1970's, I Admired Him,a Modern Gladiator I have been Lucky,enough to visit Rome,the Coliseum,I say go see it Insight,into Roberto Duran,Mike Tyson,Joe Frazier,etc etc oh yes Henry Armstrong.... Pasta,across the street,from Coliseum, 😋
I rate Roberto Duran as my number one fighter of all time especially what he did to Davey Moore and an Iran Barclay and and at lightweight he was untouchable he was a mean fighting machine
When properly prepared, Duran was unbeatable. I know he was beaten several times, but the fighters that he beat outside his normal weight class was incredible.
The fact that Duran had to go up in weight classes to have better fights is a testimony of his greatness. Although he lost to some of them, he dared taking on them being a smaller weight. One of the greatest!..
One of my top 5 fighters of all time. He was before my time, I only have highlights & re-runs of him to watch but what a fighter. Literal hands of stone. I only got into boxing mid to late 90's because of my age but every past era shits all over the current era.
I remember when he fought a guy I think was Ray Lampkin. Duran knocked him out and Ray was taken away in a stretcher. In the post fight interview Duran was asked about hurting Ray. His response was that if he was in better shape he would have killed him. All very calmly and matter of fact.
The fact that he stood toe to toe with HAGLER in his fight with him when HAGLER was literally at his peak/ was remarkable; I still think HAGLER was 1 of the greatest middleweights ever; AND DURAN went all 15 rounds with the MARVELOUS 1/ tells you how great DURAN was. And Duran did this post NO MAS; and after everyone gave up on DURAN after NO MAS; and Duran beat DAVEY MOORE & Iran Barkley after no mas. Amazing. I think he wasn't right when he fought HEARNS/ he was not in his crouch/ and was standing straight up like a stick/ vulnerable to HEARN's power shots; I think he just wasn't right in that fight. I would've like to have seen a DURAN - HEARNS II, which never happened; bet if they would've fought a 2cnd time the story may have been different/ Duran would've fought out of that crouch. Yes it's all conjecture, but I think that 1st HEARN'S fight, he wasn't right. Also the 2cnd Sugar Ray Leonard fight was a fight that never should have happened: Sugar Ray insisted he fight DURAN when DURAN wasn't ready. If Sugar Ray would've fought the 2cnd fight when DURAN was truly prepared/ in shape/ at his peak/ bet there would not have been a NO MAS. Look what DURAN did post NO MAS/ DECISIVE victories over Davey Moore & Iran Barkley after the public had written him off. DURAN, 1 of the best fighters ever.
Duran...this boxer never expressed fear or intimidation from other, even today it is like that (real coool Piedra)..at that time a lion or a ruthless bear could have thrown him and he fights in the center of the ring, without settling it and he gets tangled up to resolve it in a pool of blood. and we would all have seen that until his last fight, and what he showed is not even a movie... and today, other are doing good movies.
Roberto Duran was an animal in the ring. I don’t mean the he was like an animal. As if he had the characteristics of an animal. He because a different species in the ring. He was a shark, a lion who hadn’t had a meal in 3 weeks. He wanted to kill his opponent.
Duran was the greatest lightweight who ever lived and one of the greatest pound for pound fighters who ever lived. But we certainly don’t need this half as thug Teddy Atlas to tell us that.
Reach advantage combined with a safety first running style is massively overlooked. Not saying fighters should change how they fight, but that we should recognise why some fighters had the success they did. Izzy is elite, but much of his success was due to his reach advantage vs his rivals. Got outstruck by Jan on the feet, Alex landed more than izzy in their fights, one time he abandoned his safety first reach merchant style vs gastelum and nearly got KOd by a B rated fighter. This is why when these type of fighters face someone their own size, they no longer look like the GOAT striker, they end up going life and death, like jj vs reyes, gustaffson, or izzy vs jan and alex. izzy, silva, gane etc usually stay on the end of their reach, refusing to take any risk. Breaking the shorter man down from where there is no threat of retaliation, before going in for the kill. The shorter fighter has to lunge in to connect and so are at a great disadvantage. Many fighters have had the success they had largely due to this advantage they had vs their rivals. The smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to overcome this, and even then, e.g with Rob vs izzy, its still very hard What blew my mind was when i looked at floyds record. Floyd had a monster reach for his divisions and the only people in his WHOLE career that had more reach than him were mgregory de la and Paul, and you saw how them went. Ducked anyone with reach like lara, margarito, Khan, Williams etc its no coincidence that fighters like floyd, izzy, jj etc hugely succesful, also had huge reach advantages vs their rivals and fought a reach merchant running style. Combat sport is littered with examples of the less skilled rangier fighter using reach to jab and hug and run to wins vs the more skilled smaller fighter. Recently aj vs ruiz, went to war and aj got whooped, then in the return, aj switched to jabbing hugging and running to an easy W. Usyk was too skilled for this. Usyk is goated. Duran vs Leonard 1, went to war, duran won Duran Leonard 2, Leonard used his reach advantage to run 🏃♂ to what was gonna be an easy victory until Duran quit as he wasn't there to play tag these fighters usually have boring fights because they fights a running defensive reach merchant fight, refusing to take any risk hiding behind reach to get the W. Anderson Silva was the same, Jon jones, great against the smaller guys with 85 reach, but when fighting his own size, like reyes gustaffson etc he arguably lost Its easier to fight defensively with a huge reach advantage but its much harder funking someone up taking a few risks. Speed power timing etc can be improved but reach cannot, and it can be decisive when paired with a defensive style. Khamzat was berated by his coach for going to war instead of using his reach adv to make it an easy fight. Smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to be successful, like a usyk, pac, tank, dc, canelo mike tyson etc Thankfully for us fans, not all fighters with reach fight like this, although they would be more successful if they did but the sport would be dead Izzy said it best himself when he said Costa will be easy as he has t rex arms and won't reach😮
Do my neighborhood when I was a kid the the old people you know they take the kids and they used to put you whatever the fine in the floor in your shoulder and they they tell the other kid remove it if if the other kid remove that from your shoulder that means that he curse on your mother if you don't fight so you know everybody going to take advantage of you everybody going to make fun of you even the same girls they're going to talk talk about you like you are scared 😅 you have to fight papa no matter what you have to close your fist ✊ and fight
Duran se quedó mucho no tiro casi golpes en los últimos round y el maravilloso Marvin Hagler lo arrolló y le ganó, Roberto manos de piedra tenía que apretar más para ganarle a Hagler.
You can be poor, that's no shame on it. But if you are poor and you add the fact that you are living in a third world country. You have only one way to be out of poverty, only the strong survive 👊🏼
Come on wimps, Hagler was in no way shape or form intimidated. So does anyone know if any fighter has ever made Duran box from the outside? 🤔...Hagler did 😮 Wow! What a beast.
Reach advantage combined with a safety first running style is massively overlooked. Not saying fighters should change how they fight, but that we should recognise why some fighters had the success they did. Izzy is elite, but much of his success was due to his reach advantage vs his rivals. Got outstruck by Jan on the feet, Alex landed more than izzy in their fights, one time he abandoned his safety first reach merchant style vs gastelum and nearly got KOd by a B rated fighter. This is why when these type of fighters face someone their own size, they no longer look like the GOAT striker, they end up going life and death, like jj vs reyes, gustaffson, or izzy vs jan and alex. izzy, silva, gane etc usually stay on the end of their reach, refusing to take any risk. Breaking the shorter man down from where there is no threat of retaliation, before going in for the kill. The shorter fighter has to lunge in to connect and so are at a great disadvantage. Many fighters have had the success they had largely due to this advantage they had vs their rivals. The smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to overcome this, and even then, e.g with Rob vs izzy, its still very hard What blew my mind was when i looked at floyds record. Floyd had a monster reach for his divisions and the only people in his WHOLE career that had more reach than him were mgregory de la and Paul, and you saw how them went. Ducked anyone with reach like lara, margarito, Khan, Williams etc its no coincidence that fighters like floyd, izzy, jj etc hugely succesful, also had huge reach advantages vs their rivals and fought a reach merchant running style. Combat sport is littered with examples of the less skilled rangier fighter using reach to jab and hug and run to wins vs the more skilled smaller fighter. Recently aj vs ruiz, went to war and aj got whooped, then in the return, aj switched to jabbing hugging and running to an easy W. Usyk was too skilled for this. Usyk is goated. Duran vs Leonard 1, went to war, duran won Duran Leonard 2, Leonard used his reach advantage to run 🏃♂ to what was gonna be an easy victory until Duran quit as he wasn't there to play tag these fighters usually have boring fights because they fights a running defensive reach merchant fight, refusing to take any risk hiding behind reach to get the W. Anderson Silva was the same, Jon jones, great against the smaller guys with 85 reach, but when fighting his own size, like reyes gustaffson etc he arguably lost Its easier to fight defensively with a huge reach advantage but its much harder funking someone up taking a few risks. Speed power timing etc can be improved but reach cannot, and it can be decisive when paired with a defensive style. Khamzat was berated by his coach for going to war instead of using his reach adv to make it an easy fight. Smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to be successful, like a usyk, pac, tank, dc, canelo mike tyson etc Thankfully for us fans, not all fighters with reach fight like this, although they would be more successful if they did but the sport would be dead Izzy said it best himself when he said Costa will be easy as he has t rex arms and won't reach😮😢
Fighters win and fighters lose. Duran has wins over Iran Barkley and Sugar Ray Leonard both of whom beat Hearns and Hagler respectively. Those fights didn't "work out" for those guys either, right?
I like how Tommy Hearns hit Duran so hard Duran landed face forward into the canvas with his behind stuck in the air. And I loved when Sugar Ray Leonard made Duran Quit and say " NO MAS" !!! 🤣
@@franknberry6397 Duran never beat Leonard's ass though. They both went 15 rounds without a scratch on either of them in their first fight. But Leonard's did make Duran quit and say "NO MAS" like the coward he is in their second fight.
@@zachcohen Duran gave Leonard a boxing tutorial. Leonard returned the favor and Duran couldn't handle it. That is why I said I liked it when Benitez beat Duran. Because Duran didn't like that one either. He was a poor sport. But hey he was great.
@@franknberry6397 No he didn't ..The first fight Leonard and Duran had was almost a dead even 15 round fight . Duran showed his true colors in their rematch when Duran Quit and beg for mercy ... Hence Duran crying " NO MAS" in the middle of the fight.
Pffft Leonard literally scammed his way into victory. Duran was out partying and Leonard just went to Durans manager and arranged a fight as soon as possible. That weight cut was so bad and he wasn’t really training that he couldn’t perform at all. No point in taking a senseless beating. Durans win over a prime Iran Barkley puts him above Leonard because Duran was old af and had a lot of miles on him
@darnellbutts8421 😆 Yeah, it reminds me of all those hitmen families from Tamaulipas, Chihuahua, and Sinaloa. For instance, the Torres family in Sinaloa had a well-known famous sicario leader known as el Ondeado, Manuel Torres Felix. That guy was hard to even look eye to eye. He had that ferocious look. He was, after all, an enemy machine killer.
@@guero210Spot on, a lot of people don’t know that the most ruthless and pulverizing fighters out there had the grittiest and toughest upbringing. Hardship breeds warriors.
@@mrlee3294 and then you have MMA which is often dominated by perfectly normal upbringings and collegiate wrestlers. The two greatest MMA fighters of all time (GSP and Mighty Mouse) were just normal middle class kids. The reality is that upbringing doesn't matter when it comes to combat sports: the reason so many fighters are poor is not because poverty = badassery, but because they couldnt do anything else. Rich or middle class or poor, high level training is hard enough to "breed warriors", as long as you genetically have dog in you + freak athleticism
I think most people from this century cannot even understand how though guys back then where. Guys like duran, hagler, marciano are built different. I bet, if you could touch those guys in their prime they would literally feel like they are made of stone. Now imagine touching guys like haney and garcia. I bet they feel soft, like my girlfriend. I think they would break multiple bones in a match with duran. Duran wins by murder
@@wasabi5338 not fair? Okay sorry. We will replace duran with someone else. How about tommy hearns? Oops instant death.. Point is, boxers today are kids. They are stronger than normal people of course ( they are still boxers ) but compared to the 4 kings for example they are absolute little kids who would get absolutely destroyed..
Teddy said it best. Roberto Duran was the GOAT. Whoever beat him, I can't say they would have in his Prime. Look at some of his old fights and you will understand it better. Been hooked on the sweet science since I watched him and DeJesus in the early 70s.
My dad met Duran in the bar in Hotel Panama in the early nineties and said he was one of the most down to earth people he’d ever met. My dad said that if he hadn’t know Duran was a boxer, he would have thought he was just a really good hearted man who loved to talk to everyone.
Duran was no joke...but outside the ring he was a great person..He helped so many poor families back in Panama..
Yeah but also a bit of a jerk too
@@Black_ops07 who isn't??
Rocky Marciano Manny Pacquiao
@@Black_ops07you ain’t ? Or never been ? What belts you won ? How many world titles ?
@@mariumrajah who are you lol how many titles did you earn 0 lol 😆
to me, Roberto Duran was the greatest. the most thrilling, exciting fighter we've ever seen. in his prime as lightweight, he was unstoppable.
One ,of the greatest fighters in his prime...
Hagler, Hearns and Leonard all beat him.
@@Thirty. What does that prove? Duran was smaller than all of the four kings and was anywhere from 3-7 years older. Despite this, he had the best individual title reign of any of them, he had the best individual win of any of them (beating Leonard), he faced more top level opposition than any of them, AND he was still able to win belts in 3 other divisions.
Hagler and Hearns are great, neither are in the discussion for the top ten greatest fighters of all time. Leonard has a small case for himself, but most leave him out. Duran is the ONLY one of the four kings to CONSISTENTLY make people's top ten list. That should tell you all you need to know about him.
@@reillyhopf6508 couldn’t have said it any better myself , no matter when Duran was on the losing edge of his career he always came back to win. In my opinion Duran has the greatest comebacks of his career. And the guy hated training.
Thank You ,Roberto Duran Fans,you
all said it . He,started in the streets of Panama,as Child.....
I saw Him on T.V. in the 1970's, I
Admired Him,a Modern Gladiator
I have been Lucky,enough to visit
Rome,the Coliseum,I say go see it
Insight,into Roberto Duran,Mike Tyson,Joe Frazier,etc etc oh yes
Henry Armstrong....
Pasta,across the street,from Coliseum, 😋
@@Thirty. OK
Well, Duran beat the crap out of Leonard and leonard beat hagler and hearns
He was a true lightweight that still went up in weight class and still was able to rock the boat!
Duran was born in the toughest hood in Panamá. We are known to throw hands at any cost.
🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦❤️🍺🥊🥊🥊🏅🏆
We?! You ain’t one of them 😂 they’d eat you for breakfast
Damn no wonder this is Mike Tyson's idol 😳😂
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Difference is roberto could back up his intimidation. Mike crumbled when the person wasn’t afraid
Mike learned well studying Hands of Stone.
@@BlackWolf-el3guthe only people that didn't fear him were Evander Holyfield, Buster Douglas, and Lennox Lewis. Everyone else was shook
Man he did had an intimidating look.
His role on HARLEM NIGHTS when he asked tha GREAT RICHARD PRYOR " you wann me to knock'y him out" tha GREAT DURAN killed that roll...LEGEND...
Facts
I rate Roberto Duran as my number one fighter of all time especially what he did to Davey Moore and an Iran Barclay and and at lightweight he was untouchable he was a mean fighting machine
When properly prepared, Duran was unbeatable. I know he was beaten several times, but the fighters that he beat outside his normal weight class was incredible.
The greatest lightweight fighter ever
Best Latino fighter ever imo
One of my favorite fighters for sure 💯
One of My Favorite Boxers Of All Times ❤😊
Duran would've excelled in any combat sport if he didnt box. Guys like that just have the killer instinct.
I love Duran
Same I’m blessed to have the same last name as him
@@maxduran9282do you got his eyes and fists tho
@@TheNeorch hopefully that’s the plan
A favorite
He was very mangly looking. Serial killer esque. That’s why he was called the Charles Manson of boxing. He had that wild eye
Yeah the beard added to that as well.
One of the greats for sure
0:12 legitimately gave me chills
My all time idol
Duran was a scary dude. I rooted for his opponent's bc I feared for them!
The fact that Duran had to go up in weight classes to have better fights is a testimony of his greatness. Although he lost to some of them, he dared taking on them being a smaller weight. One of the greatest!..
My GOAT 🇵🇦 … always
Seen Roberto Duran at Fort Kobe Panama Canal Zone early 80s
A legend a beast 💪🏽 Bendiciones from PR
Every being that has eyes speak through that. Only a few can read
GOAT 👍
Only one Duran!
One of my top 5 fighters of all time. He was before my time, I only have highlights & re-runs of him to watch but what a fighter. Literal hands of stone. I only got into boxing mid to late 90's because of my age but every past era shits all over the current era.
I think Tyson was the scariest fighter of all time cause he was tacking out giants like it was nothing.
Both of them and hearns had the most scarriest eyes
This is why Mike Tyson respect him so much 👏
One of my favourites. Such a badass…. And never ducked anyone! Even in his worst losses, like the knockout Hearns gave him, he didnt duck the fight.
Duran had a hell of alot more skill than dark eyes and aggressive nature, fabulous boxer
Best of the best!
Roberto was the first person to unlock haki
I remember when he fought a guy I think was Ray Lampkin. Duran knocked him out and Ray was taken away in a stretcher. In the post fight interview Duran was asked about hurting Ray. His response was that if he was in better shape he would have killed him. All very calmly and matter of fact.
The goat 🐐 of Panama 🇵🇦
The fact that he stood toe to toe with HAGLER in his fight with him when HAGLER was literally at his peak/ was remarkable; I still think HAGLER was 1 of the greatest middleweights ever; AND DURAN went all 15 rounds with the MARVELOUS 1/ tells you how great DURAN was. And Duran did this post NO MAS; and after everyone gave up on DURAN after NO MAS; and Duran beat DAVEY MOORE & Iran Barkley after no mas. Amazing. I think he wasn't right when he fought HEARNS/ he was not in his crouch/ and was standing straight up like a stick/ vulnerable to HEARN's power shots; I think he just wasn't right in that fight. I would've like to have seen a DURAN - HEARNS II, which never happened; bet if they would've fought a 2cnd time the story may have been different/ Duran would've fought out of that crouch. Yes it's all conjecture, but I think that 1st HEARN'S fight, he wasn't right. Also the 2cnd Sugar Ray Leonard fight was a fight that never should have happened: Sugar Ray insisted he fight DURAN when DURAN wasn't ready. If Sugar Ray would've fought the 2cnd fight when DURAN was truly prepared/ in shape/ at his peak/ bet there would not have been a NO MAS. Look what DURAN did post NO MAS/ DECISIVE victories over Davey Moore & Iran Barkley after the public had written him off. DURAN, 1 of the best fighters ever.
The hand of stone
Roberto Duran
That's crazy
Duran...this boxer never expressed fear or intimidation from other, even today it is like that (real coool Piedra)..at that time a lion or a ruthless bear could have thrown him and he fights in the center of the ring, without settling it and he gets tangled up to resolve it in a pool of blood. and we would all have seen that until his last fight, and what he showed is not even a movie... and today, other are doing good movies.
Thanks for the vid, and your English is great!
Duran was the best.
Growing up in the slums of Panama will make you this way
Roberto Duran was an animal in the ring. I don’t mean the he was like an animal. As if he had the characteristics of an animal. He because a different species in the ring. He was a shark, a lion who hadn’t had a meal in 3 weeks. He wanted to kill his opponent.
Teddy Atlas should write.
I remember when he fought haglers half brother and the commentary said his eyes looked like those of Charles Manson
Look thru you with hollow eyes and then smash you with those stone fists. - scary as hell
Duran is the "Demiorgus"😶
"Hitman" Hearns:😉
Terrible matchup for Duran stylistically! Not a great example of why Duran was an absolute killer savage!
Iran Barkley ..TWICE !!😅
@@xxlionroarxxxxxxxx4438like just say u feel inadequate when we talk about Duran
Two word To describe Roberto Duran He's Bad 🇵🇦
I did a assignment on Duran in high school
HE SURE DIDNT EVAPORATE HITMAN THO🥴
He can’t feed your endless hunger all his life . He had a greatest record of lightweights of all times and that speaks for itself . Dummy
Fighters from 3rd world countries that grew up in extreme poverty are just different.
From, boxer to serial killer
Kids today bro. They don't even know.
Duran was a BEAST nowadays it's all about the money and All these Alphabet titles Duran would've fought for free no problem 😊
music in this vid?
Teddy was about to disappear just talking about it lol
He looked like Charles Manson.
Teddy atlas is an amazing trainer,philosopher on the sport we need more of him
Aries moon like Rhianna
Duran was the greatest lightweight who ever lived and one of the greatest pound for pound fighters who ever lived. But we certainly don’t need this half as thug Teddy Atlas to tell us that.
He was a good little boy when he fought Marvelous. Helped him not get stopped.
"Not get stopped?" You're acting like Hagler took Duran to school. The fight was close you 🤡
Teddy Atlas is very knowledgeable about boxing. 👍🏼
He said since sonny Liston wtb foremen
He could not stare down Thomas Hearns.
He was out of shape. He knew he wasnt ready. So he had no confidence. Lucky Hearn.
@@wilberduran9410 nah that wasn’t it at all tommy hearns was too tall had too much reach was a power puncher and had a deadly left jab
Reach advantage combined with a safety first running style is massively overlooked. Not saying fighters should change how they fight, but that we should recognise why some fighters had the success they did.
Izzy is elite, but much of his success was due to his reach advantage vs his rivals. Got outstruck by Jan on the feet, Alex landed more than izzy in their fights, one time he abandoned his safety first reach merchant style vs gastelum and nearly got KOd by a B rated fighter.
This is why when these type of fighters face someone their own size, they no longer look like the GOAT striker, they end up going life and death, like jj vs reyes, gustaffson, or izzy vs jan and alex.
izzy, silva, gane etc usually stay on the end of their reach, refusing to take any risk. Breaking the shorter man down from where there is no threat of retaliation, before going in for the kill. The shorter fighter has to lunge in to connect and so are at a great disadvantage. Many fighters have had the success they had largely due to this advantage they had vs their rivals. The smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to overcome this, and even then, e.g with Rob vs izzy, its still very hard
What blew my mind was when i looked at floyds record. Floyd had a monster reach for his divisions and the only people in his WHOLE career that had more reach than him were mgregory de la and Paul, and you saw how them went. Ducked anyone with reach like lara, margarito, Khan, Williams etc
its no coincidence that fighters like floyd, izzy, jj etc hugely succesful, also had huge reach advantages vs their rivals and fought a reach merchant running style.
Combat sport is littered with examples of the less skilled rangier fighter using reach to jab and hug and run to wins vs the more skilled smaller fighter.
Recently aj vs ruiz, went to war and aj got whooped, then in the return, aj switched to jabbing hugging and running to an easy W. Usyk was too skilled for this. Usyk is goated.
Duran vs Leonard 1, went to war, duran won
Duran Leonard 2, Leonard used his reach advantage to run 🏃♂ to what was gonna be an easy victory until Duran quit as he wasn't there to play tag
these fighters usually have boring fights because they fights a running defensive reach merchant fight, refusing to take any risk hiding behind reach to get the W. Anderson Silva was the same, Jon jones, great against the smaller guys with 85 reach, but when fighting his own size, like reyes gustaffson etc he arguably lost
Its easier to fight defensively with a huge reach advantage but its much harder funking someone up taking a few risks.
Speed power timing etc can be improved but reach cannot, and it can be decisive when paired with a defensive style.
Khamzat was berated by his coach for going to war instead of using his reach adv to make it an easy fight.
Smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to be successful, like a usyk, pac, tank, dc, canelo mike tyson etc
Thankfully for us fans, not all fighters with reach fight like this, although they would be more successful if they did but the sport would be dead
Izzy said it best himself when he said Costa will be easy as he has t rex arms and won't reach😮
he was 38 so he was old well he was older then the four kings in boxing so yeah
fighting with an 11inch reach advantage and 6foot1,thats what made the difference
Do my neighborhood when I was a kid the the old people you know they take the kids and they used to put you whatever the fine in the floor in your shoulder and they they tell the other kid remove it if if the other kid remove that from your shoulder that means that he curse on your mother if you don't fight so you know everybody going to take advantage of you everybody going to make fun of you even the same girls they're going to talk talk about you like you are scared 😅 you have to fight papa no matter what you have to close your fist ✊ and fight
Duran se quedó mucho no tiro casi golpes en los últimos round y el maravilloso Marvin Hagler lo arrolló y le ganó, Roberto manos de piedra tenía que apretar más para ganarle a Hagler.
But when Mike does it, its a sign of weakness in Mike. Lol. Come on, Teddy.
...and Leonard made him quit.
What is the name of the song?
Kastro- In Essence
He really didn't look intimidating or scary
Ur so cool bro
You can be poor, that's no shame on it. But if you are poor and you add the fact that you are living in a third world country. You have only one way to be out of poverty, only the strong survive 👊🏼
Che Guevara if he became a boxer
Come on wimps, Hagler was in no way shape or form intimidated. So does anyone know if any fighter has ever made Duran box from the outside? 🤔...Hagler did 😮 Wow! What a beast.
That doesn't work really well on Tommy The Hitman or MM Hagler 🙈😁
He didn't train for Tommy and Practically drew with a Prime Hagler, when he in return was WELL past his prime
Reach advantage combined with a safety first running style is massively overlooked. Not saying fighters should change how they fight, but that we should recognise why some fighters had the success they did.
Izzy is elite, but much of his success was due to his reach advantage vs his rivals. Got outstruck by Jan on the feet, Alex landed more than izzy in their fights, one time he abandoned his safety first reach merchant style vs gastelum and nearly got KOd by a B rated fighter.
This is why when these type of fighters face someone their own size, they no longer look like the GOAT striker, they end up going life and death, like jj vs reyes, gustaffson, or izzy vs jan and alex.
izzy, silva, gane etc usually stay on the end of their reach, refusing to take any risk. Breaking the shorter man down from where there is no threat of retaliation, before going in for the kill. The shorter fighter has to lunge in to connect and so are at a great disadvantage. Many fighters have had the success they had largely due to this advantage they had vs their rivals. The smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to overcome this, and even then, e.g with Rob vs izzy, its still very hard
What blew my mind was when i looked at floyds record. Floyd had a monster reach for his divisions and the only people in his WHOLE career that had more reach than him were mgregory de la and Paul, and you saw how them went. Ducked anyone with reach like lara, margarito, Khan, Williams etc
its no coincidence that fighters like floyd, izzy, jj etc hugely succesful, also had huge reach advantages vs their rivals and fought a reach merchant running style.
Combat sport is littered with examples of the less skilled rangier fighter using reach to jab and hug and run to wins vs the more skilled smaller fighter.
Recently aj vs ruiz, went to war and aj got whooped, then in the return, aj switched to jabbing hugging and running to an easy W. Usyk was too skilled for this. Usyk is goated.
Duran vs Leonard 1, went to war, duran won
Duran Leonard 2, Leonard used his reach advantage to run 🏃♂ to what was gonna be an easy victory until Duran quit as he wasn't there to play tag
these fighters usually have boring fights because they fights a running defensive reach merchant fight, refusing to take any risk hiding behind reach to get the W. Anderson Silva was the same, Jon jones, great against the smaller guys with 85 reach, but when fighting his own size, like reyes gustaffson etc he arguably lost
Its easier to fight defensively with a huge reach advantage but its much harder funking someone up taking a few risks.
Speed power timing etc can be improved but reach cannot, and it can be decisive when paired with a defensive style.
Khamzat was berated by his coach for going to war instead of using his reach adv to make it an easy fight.
Smaller fighter needs to be more skilled than the longer fighter to be successful, like a usyk, pac, tank, dc, canelo mike tyson etc
Thankfully for us fans, not all fighters with reach fight like this, although they would be more successful if they did but the sport would be dead
Izzy said it best himself when he said Costa will be easy as he has t rex arms and won't reach😮😢
@@fuuf7092fighting is mostly genetic. Smaller guy has to be faster,stronger, and more skillful to win. Seen it in the boxing gym numerous of times
Life goes around. Barkley ko Hearn and got beat by Duran 😂
Fighters win and fighters lose. Duran has wins over Iran Barkley and Sugar Ray Leonard both of whom beat Hearns and Hagler respectively. Those fights didn't "work out" for those guys either, right?
Kirkland Laing beat him in his prime lol, but Laing just wasted his career
Roberto Duran looks exactly like Che Guevara
I like how Tommy Hearns hit Duran so hard Duran landed face forward into the canvas with his behind stuck in the air. And I loved when Sugar Ray Leonard made Duran Quit and say " NO MAS" !!! 🤣
Did you love it when Duran whupped Leonard's ass the first fight? I liked it when Benitez beat Duran in their fight.
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Duran never beat Leonard's ass though.
They both went 15 rounds without a scratch on either of them in their first fight. But Leonard's did make Duran quit and say "NO MAS" like the coward he is in their second fight.
@@zachcohen Duran gave Leonard a boxing tutorial. Leonard returned the favor and Duran couldn't handle it. That is why I said I liked it when Benitez beat Duran. Because Duran didn't like that one either. He was a poor sport. But hey he was great.
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No he didn't ..The first fight Leonard and Duran had was almost a dead even 15 round fight . Duran showed his true colors in their rematch when Duran Quit and beg for mercy ... Hence Duran crying
" NO MAS" in the middle of the fight.
@@zachcohen Duran won by unanimous decision.
And still Sugar Ray Leonard made him quit, dancing around and humiliating him 😂😂😂
Forget the loss
Pffft Leonard literally scammed his way into victory. Duran was out partying and Leonard just went to Durans manager and arranged a fight as soon as possible. That weight cut was so bad and he wasn’t really training that he couldn’t perform at all. No point in taking a senseless beating. Durans win over a prime Iran Barkley puts him above Leonard because Duran was old af and had a lot of miles on him
Sugar Ray got his ass kicked the first fight tho.. 😉
Are u restarted
i just dont like the fact that he quit against ray leonard, real killers never gone quit like that!!!
What are u fucking talk about? What are u know about killers, brave and fight?
REAL KILLERS?....YOU MEAN LIKE MIKE TYSON WHEN HE FOUGHT EVANDER HOLYFIELD THE SECOND TIME?
He's so real bro he's not an ideal fighter he was the most mean fighter ever
First of all, Teddy Atlas is all BS. End of story.
Didn't seem that scary lmao
You go and face him in the ring then you'll see!
Trust me, he would look straight through you and ur body would just shut down...
@@conorclark302 straight cap lmao
@@baileydubois1608 your really arguing with what Teddy Atlas has to say about boxing, you must be stupid
@@conorclark302Let the kid talk outta his arse
Duran always sucked!!! Hit man hearns prove that? 🤕
Your not very Scary without a gun people that use guns are cowards
Duran look like a straight up stone cold killer for the cartel
That's so true
His father was of Northern Mexican descent, a region full of it, especially now
@@abrahamgonzalez3009 that explains it 💯
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Yeah, it reminds me of all those hitmen families from Tamaulipas, Chihuahua, and Sinaloa. For instance, the Torres family in Sinaloa had a well-known famous sicario leader known as el Ondeado, Manuel Torres Felix. That guy was hard to even look eye to eye. He had that ferocious look. He was, after all, an enemy machine killer.
@@abrahamgonzalez3009he looks more like his mother tho .. who is a native Panamanian
Duran dealt with so much pain and his eyes explain it all
Yup you don’t become a good fighter without going through hell
@@guero210Spot on, a lot of people don’t know that the most ruthless and pulverizing fighters out there had the grittiest and toughest upbringing. Hardship breeds warriors.
Muhhamad Ali proves the opposite though
@@nikolozkharshiladze5874Yeh not all people have it bad
@@mrlee3294 and then you have MMA which is often dominated by perfectly normal upbringings and collegiate wrestlers. The two greatest MMA fighters of all time (GSP and Mighty Mouse) were just normal middle class kids. The reality is that upbringing doesn't matter when it comes to combat sports: the reason so many fighters are poor is not because poverty = badassery, but because they couldnt do anything else. Rich or middle class or poor, high level training is hard enough to "breed warriors", as long as you genetically have dog in you + freak athleticism
Duran would eat all of the lightweights today. Imagine Haney or Garcia vs Roberto at LW 💀
He would murder both Haney and Garcia, that is no contest right there. He was called hands of stone for a reason and also one of the 4 kings.
I think most people from this century cannot even understand how though guys back then where. Guys like duran, hagler, marciano are built different.
I bet, if you could touch those guys in their prime they would literally feel like they are made of stone.
Now imagine touching guys like haney and garcia. I bet they feel soft, like my girlfriend.
I think they would break multiple bones in a match with duran.
Duran wins by murder
I don't think they would even be his sparring partner if that was the case
that wasnt fair for Garcia and Haney. Duran was too tough that he had to bulk up to fight the other kings lol. Duran against them would be a mismatch.
@@wasabi5338 not fair? Okay sorry. We will replace duran with someone else. How about tommy hearns?
Oops instant death..
Point is, boxers today are kids. They are stronger than normal people of course ( they are still boxers ) but compared to the 4 kings for example they are absolute little kids who would get absolutely destroyed..
Duran was a animal. Beast
one of the greatest fighters to ever throw a punch 👊
That's were Mike Tyson got it from....
Iron Mike had that ability also maybe even more so but Teddy isn’t looking to give Tyson much credit from what I see .
One of Mike's favorite fighters as well.
@@chrischairamonte1064 because he knew Mike Tyson personally and knew he was mentally and it was as all an act.
From*^
Not at all
My all time favorite boxer 👊🏼
I met Duran a week ago, nice dude
Teddy said it best. Roberto Duran was the GOAT. Whoever beat him, I can't say they would have in his Prime. Look at some of his old fights and you will understand it better. Been hooked on the sweet science since I watched him and DeJesus in the early 70s.
“Since Sonny Liston”
George Foreman : hi
Foreman wasn’t really an intimidator… he earned every ounce of fear in his opponents hearts.
My dad met Duran in the bar in Hotel Panama in the early nineties and said he was one of the most down to earth people he’d ever met. My dad said that if he hadn’t know Duran was a boxer, he would have thought he was just a really good hearted man who loved to talk to everyone.
LO MEJOR DE LO MEJOR, ESE ES ROBERTO DURÁN. SALUDOS
Saludos de Brasil
Yeah he looks vicious