jamesmcdonnell wrote:Why have I never heard this rumour before? I would have thought it would have cropped up somewhere sometime before now.
I mean I must admit that Duran was always so durable and so good at protecting his chin anyway, that it was a shocker than Hearns iced him, but Hearns' power really was something else.
It's a Panamanian thing. Duran needed to go out on his shield after quitting on his feet against Leonard. He took the knockout, the nods of his countrymen and retired.
He came back because he was skint.
Terence wrote:Roberto must have known, with his spending habits, that retiring off one purse was not a great option, why not go for the win and one last payday?
Duran got 10 million dollars for Hagler in his previous fight. Hearns was the one last payday. Leonard had just retired again (after the Howard struggle) and Duran relinquished his WBA light-middleweight title to fight Hearns (rather than Mike McCallum for a fraction of the money).
I don't know if these stories of Duran not training etc are true. For a fighter who would balloon in weight he obviously got down to fighting shape.
However, what I do see is a fighter not knowing how to cope with the power of Hearns. Its all very well saying Duran could have done a Doug Dewitt but he has NEVER faced as sharp a puncher as Hearns. Hagler was strong, but not one punch KO power like Hearns had. Barkley had some mean power, but not a technically good (or as quick) as Hearns.
I think Duran went in there thinking he could win, but when he got nailed in the first minute or so and got backed up against the ropes he thought "my god, I'm not going to survive this" so took a "kill or be killed" attitude.
Max Molyneux wrote:The cheek of Mayweather in the latest Boxing Monthly saying Witter has no power and that the only only way Chop will lose is if he gets robbed in England.
Unfortunately there are a lot more than PBF who think that way in the US, with no evidence to back up such claims. I think its a case of the best form of defence is attack after the way Lennox was properly robbed over there.
I'm surprised that julien Jackson wasn't mentioned in the punchers list, i can only assume its cos his chin made Tomy Hearns'# look like tungsten. Still 49 ko's in 55 fights is pretty good to me.
Jackson had a decent enough chin, good in fact: only the great Mike McCallum took him out in his prime, and that was with an amazing barrage of punches, and Mike could hit with the best of them when he landed right.
And of course McClellan, but the GMan could flatten just about any man alive, and their first fight was one of the best slugfests I've ever seen.
You could even say Jackson hit as hard, for his weight, as any fighter who ever lived.
I mean, can you imagine anyone actualy hitting harder than Julian Jackson? Not without a baseball bat I don't think.
MightyWarrior wrote:Jackson had a decent enough chin, good in fact: only the great Mike McCallum took him out in his prime, and that was with an amazing barrage of punches, and Mike could hit with the best of them when he landed right.
And of course McClellan, but the GMan could flatten just about any man alive, and their first fight was one of the best slugfests I've ever seen.
You could even say Jackson hit as hard, for his weight, as any fighter who ever lived.
I mean, can you imagine anyone actualy hitting harder than Julian Jackson? Not without a baseball bat I don't think.
I think Edwin Rosario and John Mugabi were on a par
MightyWarrior wrote:Jackson had a decent enough chin, good in fact: only the great Mike McCallum took him out in his prime, and that was with an amazing barrage of punches, and Mike could hit with the best of them when he landed right.
And of course McClellan, but the GMan could flatten just about any man alive, and their first fight was one of the best slugfests I've ever seen.
You could even say Jackson hit as hard, for his weight, as any fighter who ever lived.
I mean, can you imagine anyone actualy hitting harder than Julian Jackson? Not without a baseball bat I don't think.
I think Edwin Rosario and John Mugabi were on a par
Ah Edwin Rosario. A real quality puncher who had few tare ups with Ramirez who could dig himself.
I think I still have a tape of him hunting down Hector Camacho for 12 rds, giving him a few very wobbly moments before being controversially decisioned.
Yep Rosario was an awesome hitter, flattening the iron chinned Livingston Bramble in a big upset, leaving him on the canvas shaking his head in disbelief. And Camacho had a huge shock when Rosario connected in their fight and ran for the rest of the fight. What a sad end Edwin came to, a real mystery.
