Does Anyone Else Think SRL Beat Roberto Duran In The Brawl In Montreal ?

I don't know if im crazy, but i thought this was a very close even fight and i had SRL edging it.

1 Leonard
2 Duran
3 Duran
4 Duran
5 Leonard
6 Leonard
7 Leonard
8 Duran
9 Duran
10 Leonard
11 Leonard
12 Duran
13 Duran
14 Leonard
15 Leonard

143-142 Leonard

Have you got a link anywhere? I'd like to score this one.

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Originally Posted by BIG H

Have you got a link anywhere? I'd like to score this one.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SwxhqOpA1M

This fight was even better than i remembered, i had only seen it once years ago. Everyone always says SRL got beat up, i couldn't disagree more and its another one of those boxing myths.

Infact apart from a few rounds where SRL got rocked like in the 2nd round, he was fighting mostly on even terms with Roberto Duran. And outworked him in some rounds and finished stronger in the last 2 rounds aswell.

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Originally Posted by ICB

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Originally Posted by BIG H

Have you got a link anywhere? I'd like to score this one.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SwxhqOpA1M

This fight was even better than i remembered, i had only seen it once years ago. Everyone always says SRL got beat up, i couldn't disagree more and its another one of those boxing myths.

Infact apart from a few rounds where SRL got rocked like in the 2nd round, he was fighting mostly on even terms with Roberto Duran. And outworked him in some rounds and finished stronger in the last 2 rounds aswell.

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Nice one, I'll have a look tomorrow

Well one of the idiot judges had like a dozen even rounds.

And Ray DID get beat up in the sense that his face was swollen at the post fight press conference and nobody had seen him take punishment like that before. Even in his recent book Ray doesn't in any way contest the decision.

I think the last time I scored that fight I had it 9-6 Duran and he also had the most telling punches.

Great, great fight.

He lost the fight . come on .

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Originally Posted by roberto duran legend

He lost the fight . come on .

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Well i hardly expect you to be unbiased with that name, sorry but i thought the fight was very close. SRL basically fought on even terms with Roberto Duran at his own game, and finished the stronger of the two.

It was a close fight im not argueing that point , but Duran won that fight by 2 rounds at least , he was more dominant , and landed the more telling punches ,he beat Leonard at his own mind games before the fight , then beat him in the ring , the only man to beat SRL in his prime , and the judges was bang on this time , great fight between two great fighters , justice served :bowdown:

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Originally Posted by roberto duran legend

It was a close fight im not argueing that point , but Duran won that fight by 2 rounds at least , he was more dominant , and landed the more telling punches ,he beat Leonard at his own mind games before the fight , then beat him in the ring , the only man to beat SRL in his prime , and the judges was bang on this time , great fight between two great fighters , justice served :bowdown:

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Well you just said yourself you only had it by 2 rounds, there were quite a few swing rounds and it easily could of gone to either fight.

just checked boxrec - he didn't

I watched the fight "live" on closed circuit, at a theater in Houston, Texas, the quality was horrible, so even though Duran won a decision it was hard for 'me' to tell who had really won. A few years later I watched the fight again, and while i'll agree that it was a close fight, I still give Duran the nod, mainly because he was the aggressor, who initiated the action most of the fight. As for Leonard getting beaten up by Duran, not really, Ray got caught with some decent shots, but I don't think he was ever badly hurt during the fight.

Just listen to the commentators in that first section. Leonard was expected to score an early KO. That's how big a mismatch it was being broadcast as.

Close fight. If it happened today there would be a million "robbery" threads. Fact.

Nah. Duran beat him.

Nope, not even close. Duran bullied him and pushed him around all fight. Leonard just didn't do enough to win. It is Duran's finest moment, he was a clear winner, in fact the scores flatter Leonard. He was beaten before the fight, look at Leonard at the Ref's instructions, he looks unsure, worried and so he should, he was in the ring with a beast and he knew it.

The only thing i'll add is that for a guy who supposedly fought the wrong fight, he was actually really impressive.