The reason why Roberto Duran quit

**porkypara** · 12-27-2008 08:45 PM

Found this on YOUTUBE.

http://http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yDYnO9gGwIQ

**Boom Boom** · 12-27-2008 09:17 PM

I never held that loss against him. Duran is not a quitter but every man has a breaking point. If you watch the fight, even with all these things against him, it was a close fight going into the round he quit. His body just wasnt prepared to go 15 rounds and Leonard was making him work hard to catch him and he didnt like to be toyed with. Stomach cramps didnt help. I do credit Leonard because he had a shrewd plan to beat Duran and the timing was perfect for him. The media was quick to judge him and call him a coward and a quitter, unfairly imo. He was in an impossible situation. Duran is still the greatest of the fabulous 4 imo and my favorite fighter of all time.

**BlackRazor** · 12-27-2008 11:09 PM

I agree, Duran's as hard as they come. I never held it against him that he didn't want to be embarassed out there by Ray that night. I give credit to any man brave enough to get up there in the ring & especially a guy like Duran!

**Kel** · 12-28-2008 02:14 AM

It's a mental game, if you get beat mentally you are basically already beaten.

**awdleyfuturehalloffamer** · 12-28-2008 06:38 AM

Leonard ran most of the fight.

**Greig** · 12-28-2008 07:11 AM

If anybody is interested in reading more about that era I can thoroughly recommend the book 'Four Kings: Leonard, Duran, Hearns, Hagler and the Last Great Era of Boxing' by George Kimball.

Kimball was a writer for a Massachusetts newspaper so he was affiliated with the Hagler camp, but he was ringside for all the fights between those guys, was good friends with Michael Katz and has some great inside stories.

Really can't recommend that book enough - very well researched and a great read.