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Roberto Duran is one of my favorite fighters, hard to find any interviews with him, found this one though from mid 2000s. Pretty good read, Duran is short and direct but he gets his point across.

Like how he sums up Hopkins, Klitschko, Roy Jones, Lennox Lewis, and also shows big respect for Mike Tyson.

http://spam.com/articles/blast- ... an-2005--2

If anyone has links to any other Duran interviews please post them here. WOuld really like to read more interviews with Duran. Did anyone read the Duran biography by Christian Del Guidice?

here is one from 2005(2 pages).

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/w ... und.duran/

Straight talkin'. I like Roberto.

THanks Brutu. Great stuff. I like the semi diss of Mickey Rourke, that he prefers Mickey Rooney movies ) And the part about the no name tough Panamanian fighters he had to beat who he ranks as tough as anyone he fought. A lot of times the fights that make or break a fighter are ones the fans don't know about.

here is a somewhat more in-depth interview with Roberto Duran from 2006.


http://cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/w0906-juan2.html

Here is another interview that Roberto Duran had done that day in September 2006.


http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing ... id=2604943

There also is an older interview with Roberto Duran that appeared in the revised and expanded
edition only (1994)of the book,
IN THIS CORNER! 42 World Champions tell their stories,edited by Peter Heller.
The interview was translated from Spanish into English.pp 420-425.

http://www.books.google.com/books?id=km ... g=PA420&dq


some of the pages are missing in this link to google books,but you can get an inexpensive copy of the entire book over at Amazon.com.

BoxBuzz wrote:Straight talkin'. I like Roberto.

Here is a link to a short interview(of sorts)of both Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns when they both appeared together in Doncaster England in 2010.The story of the knock out of the horse is recounted.

http://eastsideboxing.com/weblog/news.p ... 972&more=1

Duran was right up there with my all-time favorites.

Until New Orleans.

yancey wrote:Duran was right up there with my all-time favorites.

Until New Orleans.

I think he may just have eaten too much flan before that fight.

Brutu wrote:

yancey wrote:Duran was right up there with my all-time favorites.

Until New Orleans.

I think he may just have eaten too much flan before that fight.

I read he got up to about 230 after Leonard I. Shocking weight gain.

montrealsuper wrote:If anyone has links to any other Duran interviews please post them here. WOuld really like to read more interviews with Duran. Did anyone read the Duran biography by Christian Del Guidice?

Yup, great read, plenty of good anecdotes, lots of info on his early life and career. Durans my favourite fighter so you might think Im biased, but objectively speaking, the book is well written, well researched and a great read no matter if you are a Duran fan or not.

Cherrybomb wrote:

montrealsuper wrote:If anyone has links to any other Duran interviews please post them here. WOuld really like to read more interviews with Duran. Did anyone read the Duran biography by Christian Del Guidice?

Yup, great read, plenty of good anecdotes, lots of info on his early life and career. Durans my favourite fighter so you might think Im biased, but objectively speaking, the book is well written, well researched and a great read no matter if you are a Duran fan or not.

Was this a guy named Giudice? He wrote for Fightnews but hasn't been around in a while.

Thanks for posting all the interviews Brutu. Great stuff.

yancey wrote:Duran was right up there with my all-time favorites.

Until New Orleans.

Duran was my all time favorite. No mas was a big disappointment and very difficult to accept but I forgave him for one bad night, he gave us too many great nights to abandon him for one bad night.

That is right. Those that say that they were Duran's fans until that night in New Orleans were not really his fans anyway.

Just like trainer Ray Arcel...Once Duran was through or almost washed up, he abandoned him. The same with his manager Carlos Eleta. Now Duran knew who his "real friends" were.

When you win, we love you, once you lose, nobody wants you.

Just like the great John Lennon sang "Nobody Loves You When You Are Down and Out"

Very well said Elmersalsa.

BTW Duran is still my all time favorite, always will be too. Just has some company up there at the top now.

elmersalsa wrote:That is right. Those that say that they were Duran's fans until that night in New Orleans were not really his fans anyway.

Just like trainer Ray Arcel...Once Duran was through or almost washed up, he abandoned him. The same with his manager Carlos Eleta. Now Duran knew who his "real friends" were.

When you win, we love you, once you lose, nobody wants you.

Just like the great John Lennon sang "Nobody Loves You When You Are Down and Out"

Not that he lost, it was way he lost.

But I don't expect you to get it.

yancey wrote:

elmersalsa wrote:That is right. Those that say that they were Duran's fans until that night in New Orleans were not really his fans anyway.

Just like trainer Ray Arcel...Once Duran was through or almost washed up, he abandoned him. The same with his manager Carlos Eleta. Now Duran knew who his "real friends" were.

When you win, we love you, once you lose, nobody wants you.

Just like the great John Lennon sang "Nobody Loves You When You Are Down and Out"

Not that he lost, it was way he lost.

But I don't expect you to get it.

I don't expect it, either.

Boxing is the most dangerous job on earth, one punch can change your life and health. INcredible stresses and pressures that we as fans could never come close to understanding. So Roberto Duran, who gave us so many incredible performances of courage and bravery against the world's best, gave us an awful clunker one night in New Orleans. SO what, big deal. He more than made up for it with his career after that loss.

With or without No Mas Duran at his best was still one of the finest champions to ever grace a ring. If only the sport had 2-3 Durans in it now, not these fraud clowns like Mayweather and Broner, boxing would be much more respected and popular.

VIVA DURAN

There is no difference, Yancey. Either you are a for real fan or you don't. I am a Michael Jackson fan, and he was accused of child molestation, something he denies, but I still was his fan until he died. The same for the great Roberto Duran. A lot of people like my uncle liked him until that night in New Orleans. Just because of one horrible night he is not your man anymore? Bullshit. You gotta be in it all the way. I bet you when Duran came back and beat Davey Moore, he jumped in the bandwagon all over again.

Don King left Duran
Carlos Eleta, his manager, also left him
And that Ray Arcel, once his horse was not winning like he used to, was also gone.

Yeah, "real friends" The Hands of Stone had.

Duran's team should have never let him take that rematch with SRL after he gained all the weight from partying all summer. IT's been said he got up to over 220 pounds, then had to go down to 47. Find that hard to believe but if it's true, his team should be arrested for taking that fight. And also the ring was the biggest damn ring I ever saw in history. Duran's team had the leverage, they should have waited until June of 8I. WHat was the damn rush?

I heard a story once that Duran threw the fight, because the PTB wanted SRL to be their golden boy again. The big $ was in SRL. SO they threw a fortune at Duran and he agreed to take a dive. But then when SRL started doing all that BS Duran said F it. WHo knows. Could be true. Anything can happen in boxing :)