Everything about it was beautiful. Tommy managed to simultaneously put on a boxing master class, and a display of how sustained and accurate power can dismantle a legend. His feet were great, bouncing around whilst looking, short quick steps in, and then set when throwing. He threw pretty much every punch in his arsenal, finishing with a right so perfect you can hear it connect. Duran fearless as usual played his part to charging in and getting back up when lesser men would have folded. People will say it is just looking at the past through rose tinted glasses, but fights like that just never seem to happen any more. Two greats in the same ring with performances like that, from boxers willing to test themselves against the best, are becoming as rare as hens teeth.
Bookmarks