Quote Originally Posted by Beanflicker
Although he lost to the rest of the Fab 4, I think considering the fact that he was originally a LW, what he did was remarkable. He cleary beat Leonard (soemthing Hearns and Hagler were not able to do) and, even though he lost, put up a much more respectable performance against the great Marvin Hagler than both Hearns and Leonard (who ran for 12 rounds)
What did he do remarkable? He beat Ray when Ray decided to brawl with him, and still Duran could not knockout an inexperienced guy with one title defense at welterweight who was fighting his inside fight. I am amazed at all this talk about Duran. He moved up to welterweight when he was 28 years old.. Something alot of fighters do. He beat Ray Leonard the first time and then Ray beats him the next two times easy. Not just barely but easy, which proves that Ray fought the wrong fight the first time. Duran then loses to Hearns,Hagler,Benitez.. what is remarkable about what he did after lightweight really? Yet when Hearns went up and beat Virgil Hill 30 pounds above where he beat Pipino Cueves, that was not remarkable to most people. and I see Hearns moving up much more impressive than Duran since Hearns beat better guys when he moved up. And Cueves was better than Buchanan was and Virgil had 10 defenses at light heavyweight. I just do not see what was remarkable about losing to all the legends he fought in the 80s.. Had Ray boxed him like he should have Duran would have lost bigtime to all the legends of the 80s.. Look at the scorecards of his fight to Ray in Dec. 1989.