Who couldn't get KOed enough times for you???

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Give me 50 feet to run around in and I could wiggle my hips and stick my tongue out at a real fighter all brave like, too. About 6 landed punches in the whole stinking charade. Bravo

 

Duran held all the cards at the negotiating table.

 

Let's not forget the untrained, unmotivated Duran was only down by 1 point when he quit anyway. He only quit because he needed a shit, I think he would have pulled out a close win if not for the turd.

 

The Duran wandered alone in a clown ring for 7 rounds and rests for our sins so that he might rise again.

 

Except not really. He certainly didn't demand that the fight left him 3 months to lose 40lb or that it was held in an aircraft hangar with ropes round it

 

Pat Lawlor held all the cards at the negotiating table, too.

 

Not liking Duran is like not liking breasts. Illogical, nonsensical, and weird.

 

Calzaghe, Wlad and WBA admirers dont like Duran. Paul McCartney fans too I imagine. People who sit at home watching Wlad-Ibragimov on DVD listening to Ob-la-di Ob-la-da.

 

I was going to say, I think any Duran haters must be massive fans of wald pussy, Lennox pussy, and possibly Leonard too.

And for all other Duran haters, here's just a little something to bear in mind - mikE ( :atu: ) hates Duran. Do you really want to be in the same club as mikE?

 

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I'm a big Duran fan, I just like posting that video (and I like Leonard more)

 

mikE :atu:

 

Watching Lloyd Honeygan have his face punched in against Marlon Starling brings tears to my eyes for some reason. And as for Arguello v Jim fucking Watt...

MTF ray:

 

Imagine a dinner party with Mick McCarthy and Jim Watt. Imagine that.

 

'Dinner Party' ::

 

I would rather cut off my penis with a rusty bread-knife

MTF :34:

 

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I'm not a Duran hater, and I rooted against Ray Leonard in every single one of his pro fights. But I do think Duran groupies get a little out of control making excuses for him all the time.

No matter how many excuses get tossed around, Duran was losing the fight (and to me, it wasn't a one point fight) and he quit. There is no explaining away the loss. And yes, it is possible to accept this loss and still think Duran is one of the greatest fighters ever.

And mikE is in a special club all by himself.

 

Bullshit. It is called being rationally consistent. I hate Lennox Pussy and Wlad Pussy and John Ruiz. His style was awful. He was rarely in a watchable fight. His fans are ridiculous. Liking Duran is like being a Fundamentalist Christian. They can be good, rational even intelligent, except for their defect. No fighter ever has had more false things said of him than Duran. He was a crude brawler who never followed the rules. People call him ultra skilled, . He was a dirty fighter.

 

It was hilarious seeing you defend Lennox Lewis like he was your family member during the Boxing vs UFC thread a couple years back, mex.:laugh11:
In the time of war, mex knows where his true loyalty lies.

 

He used to annoy me every time he fought on ESPN. Always fought in his hometown to the sound of 5,000 drunk mexican cheerleaders and always got gift decisions. Loved when he got KO'ed.

 

There are no excuses. Only testament to his sacrifices. Selah.

 

I liked the cover boxing monthly put out after a few of those gifts - just him with the belt wrapped round him under the headline

'JORRIN-DOUS!'

 

Except he's not. Nobody has ever 10 counted him. He's taken some massive digs from legitimate bombers and never failed to beat a count or try to fight on. Compare that to Duran, Bernard Dunne, Amir Khan, Ricky Hatton, Joe Walcott, and a whole host of other so-called Champions. Very few people can take repeated blows to the back of the skull from Sam Peter and get up off the floor, much less come back to win. He's not the hardest, but he's not "fragile" either.

 

The Peter fight was one of the most impressive displays of fragility I've ever seen. He was the joke The Rock used to make about KOing opponents with the wind from his punches come to life. If he flopped to the canvas once it must have been about 15 times.

 

First off, the stakes in the Peter fight were huge, lose and it was over. Monte Barrett used to fall getting into the ring. Vitali was "down" in the Sanders fight. Perhaps he lacks substance. ::

Wlad was down three times. The first time, he was cracked flush in the back of the skull. The second time he was still hurt and was caught coming in, half-push, half-blow, the third time was when Peter stood on his foot and hit him at the same time. That was the 10th round I believe. Yet he won the 11th and nearly stopped Peter in the 12th. If that's fragility, then I've seen worse.

 

3 times plus about 37 escapes to the canvas ala Haye versus him. Escapology is the hallmark of the fragile. 'Then came Wlad and he wanted to CLING.....'

 

I don't remember that at all. He was down three times. And finished stronger, threw more punches, landed more punches.

Ricky Hatton never had a rep for fragility. Guy got counted out twice.

 

Sam Peter can't fight though.

This "counted out" stuff is crap.

 

Wasn't he only counted out once (?). Didn't the Mayweather fight end with him getting waved off on the ropes?

But anyway, the measure of Wlad's 'fragility' is how honed his stinky, negative style is to accommodating it. Manny Steward's like a jittery first time mother, fitting rubber stoppers on every table corner, child locks on every drawer