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

[BIG H]

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

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.

Nice one, I'll have a look tomorrow

[marbleheadmaui]

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.

[roberto duran legend]

He lost the fight . come on .

[ICB]

He lost the fight . come on .

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.

[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

[ICB]

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

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.

[Mark TKO]

just checked boxrec - he didn't

[Fenster]

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.

[Mars_ax]

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.