Re: Mayweather vs Duran at 135, who would win?
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Originally Posted by
Lyle
DURAN...all day long!!!!!!
Floyd likes to talk shit and get his opponent out of their gameplan, but Roberto Duran would end up baiting Floyd to stand toe to toe with him and he'd batter Floyd!!!! You saw what Jose Luis Castillo did to Floyd in their first fight.....imagine if Duran had been inflicting that punishment, it would have been stopped by the 8th!!!! If Roberto Duran can beat a Prime Ray Leonard he schools the hell out of Floyd Mayweather Jr.!!!
How would Floyd handle the psychological games from Duran? Sure he joked around and made fun of guys like JMM and Hatton but Duran had MALICE in his psychological warfare and it would surely get to Floyd whom I think has a VERY delicate constitution to begin with....Floyd may very well have cried at the press conferences if he was there with Duran.
PBF would have had a better shot vs Julio Cesar Chavez
Good point Duran did not say things to be funny or cute or to make himself look tough...He meant what he said and was vicious with words at times....PBF would have realized real quick he was not the hard core kid from the streets he wants to be
Re: Mayweather vs Duran at 135, who would win?
I know I'm alone here, but over 12 (15 I think Duran takes a UD) I see Mayweather taking a SD. I think Duran starts well, Mayweather adapts to take the middle rounds by fighting off the back foot & Duran takes the end. I think it's a close either-way fight. I also think Whitaker-Duran goes exactly the same, only difference being Duran takes the SD, because Whitaker never had the best of luck with judges.
I don't think ANYONE could ever war with Duran at 147 or below, so I see solid boxing off the back-foot as the way to beat him. I think Mosley would be a good fight, but Duran takes a solid UD.
