Quote Originally Posted by ICE COLD BOXING
Quote Originally Posted by CutMeMick
One thing I notice when people speak on Duran is that they only speak on his fights against SRL, Hagler, Hearns.

For the most part on accasion someone will mention the Barkley fight and say he got a gift decision. (Which I find amusing to read that).

People tend to forget his great trilogy with one of Puerto Ricos greatest Esteban De Jesus what a trilogy that was IMO one of the lesser talked about trilogies but boy whas it a good one. Duran came back from an early loss to De Jesus to win the second meeting in which he went down early in the fight. The third fight was a unification bout which Duran also won. You also gotta note his win over the then Lighweight champ. Buchanan who would have been the Undisputed champ. had he kepted his WBC belt when he faced Duran. What about the fight against Moore where he showed what he was made of you gotta mention that....

To me at Lightweight it's Duran then the rest.
In ANY list as far as P4P, all times or whatever it may be in that sense for me Duran comes in at top 5 without a doubt.
Can i just ask what your top 10 list would be then ?? because top 5 of all time is way too high for Duran there is much more deserving fighters in top 5 than Duran.
The Ring magazine didn't think so. When they celebrated their 80th anniversary they published their top 80 P4P fighters during their 80 year run and Duran came 4th, behind (from memory) Robinson, Ali and Armstrong.