Which Lightweight would have had the best chance to beat PRIME Duran?

Mayweather has never run away from a fight except when he's been injured, or in the Castillo rematch when he just wanted a clear W. I think he would actually try to beat Duran at his own game (as he did against Hatton and Castillo, successfully in both instances imo), and that would be his downfall. If he tried to back off and adjust, he would wind up getting outworked.

I do think Mayweather is ATG material, but Duran is just on another level and has proven more.

 

So Mayweather has never run away from a fight, except for that one time when he... ran away from a fight.

 

Congratulations on understanding the definition of an exception.

 

thanks buddy. you're lucky... no one is rude to me on a boxing forum and gets away with it. except that one guy... that was rude to me, and got away with it

the real thing to say here is... mayweather has run away from a fight before.

 

streuth!

 

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Stone the flamin' crows!

 

I dont want to hear the type of case that guys like you or he would try to make, the kind of cases where you make up "facts" in order to "win" the argument

"facts" like "Marquez hit at least as hard as Hamed" (MWS) or
"facts" like "Whitaker just ran and then held and then ran again" (you)

those arent "facts" ... they are ridiculous assertions based on nothing more than biased hatred of one fighter OR biased love for the fighter being compared to that fighter

 

This makes us even for Jeffries-Marciano

 

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Granted, Gans never proved himself in the class of De La Hoya, or Mosley as a Lightweight. I mean, since we're talking comedy. LOL.

I can't wait until we're all old & grey & the great Roberto is being laughed at by tomorrow's fight fans. Watch it happen

 

I think Shane stops Duran. Floyd by UD. Pac SD.

 

Well, you also think an adult male virgin walked on water 2000 years ago, so that's that

 

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And they would have every right to laugh, if by then boxing techniques have changed dramatically and lightweight of that era outweight recent lightweight by 15 lbs or so

 

THAT bit isn't an improvement, just a change :Thumbs:

 

I think it is an improvement since such a size advantage could decide a fight

 

Well you obviously gives guys the same weigh in rules in match ups. It's fair to point out Benny leonard should really be matched against modern 'featherweights', another to say modern fighters are better because they're subject to different weigh in rules. Ya dig?

 

True, but what I meant is that for this reason saying that Battling Nelson would defeat Pernell Whitaker straight up is even more silly than it is otherwise. And if 80 years or so from now there is a lightweight who enters the ring at 180lbs, he would very likely be too much for the fighters we have now. Whether you want to call that 'being better' or not is up for debate I guess