Quote Originally Posted by JonesJrMayweather

Truth is this...all great fighters in the modern era only about a third of their records is worth mentioning...and even the third that they did fight if held under serious examination it probably would be a quarter.... And of those 72 wins 55 of them were probably against guys that did nothing in sport after they lost or were just local panamanians from the bar with boxing records that Duran used to pad his record...You've already named the ones you feel were good to great and came up with 23 names and 30 fights...but since his record was 19-11...obviously not that impressive, points to the overwhelming fact that he was overrated. You now say that there's more...how convienent is that. Out of 116 fights you only named 23 fighters and he had 11 losses....this makes him good by having a winning record in those fights...but clearly and definitely not great...
In June 1972 Duran stepped into the ring against Buchanan 28-0, in that record he had beaten Herbert Marcel a future unbeaten Featherweight World Champion, who would suffer only one more defeat in his career, and would go on to beat Alexis Arguello.

He beat a former 130lb World titlist in Hiroshi Kobayashi, a man who held on to the belt for three years. He beat the amazing Cuban journeyman Angel Robinson Garcia, a man with only two stoppage defeats , one due to a cut eye, in over 230 fights.

After winning the Lightweight World Crown, a title he defended 12 times, he had 30 non title bouts. These 30 non title bouts included fights against three future/past world titlist; DeJesus, Mamby and Palomino.

On top of this he also met in non title fights Gerardo Ferrat (Mexican Lightweight Champ), Tony Garcia (one defeat in 17), Armando Mendoza (2 defeats in 19), Edwin Viruet (one loss in 24), Emiliano Villa (three defeats in 29, two time world title challenger), Adolfo Viruet (USBA 140lbs champ), Monroe Brooks (4 defeats in 45 fights), Jimmy Heair (a 90 fight veteran), Zeferino Gonzalez (two defeats in 22) and Joseph Nsubuga (unbeaten in 14 fights).

He then beat one Ray Leonard, Duran rarely had it easy in his prime and yet still went 72-1