Anyway I'll tell you what happens. Trinidad comes into the ring in his usual manner with a facial expression that strongly hints at a lack of fundamental intelligence. Duran comes in menacing as usual with his shaggy beard, oily greasy hair flowing all over the place and an expression that means he's ready for war. Tito tries to look and act tough in response but it doesn't work for him since his head is too big for his shoulders. The pre fight battle is won by Hands of Stone. That, however, is the only battle he wins. Tito proceeds to fuck him up!!!! Duran lasts 7 rounds but is rescued by the referee. He is utterly bashed in. His overconfidence got to him. He thought that having lasted the distance with Hagler that he could hang with Tito in a firefight. He was wrong.
joppy wraps? if so, hard to imagine even Duran surviving that. if durans cornerman, however, discovers wraps prefight like hopkins did, and forces him to rewrap, he wins.
I don't see what's the appeal in this matchup at 160. At 147 & 154, it's an excellent matchup. I think Tito would've beaten Duran at 154. Duran wins at 147.
I think sly is trying to discredit Hagler for struggling with Duran and Hut and Ugo are cock blocking him. Lol Duran had a good chance to show up feeling peppy and take a few rounds or pull the epic upset against anybody at that point. He was a veteran ATG who could show up and fight like he just didn't give a damn or like he just didn't give a damn. But in a mythical matchup when you're talking about the most likely outcome he loses to most top middles. Sly's main points are "Duran was ok and he was the greatest lightweight or whatever... And yeah he beat the second best welter of all time... And yeah he gave arguably the greatest middleweight ever a good fight... But he have losses. Floyd beat Chico, Gatti, Cotto, Hatton and DLH and Pac when it really meant something." And "Hagler beat better fighters at 160 than Hopkins and Bernard's reign was ended by a guy Hagler couldn't help but to KO. but Hagler struggled to clearly defeat arguably the greatest boxer of all time who was smaller and past prime while Hopkins dared to be great, become a bigger, buffer version of himself than he's ever been in his mid 40's with no roids at all and moved up in weight to beat the great Pavlik, become one of Slappy's two relevant wins, beat the great Tarver and lose to the great Dawson."
Yeah, me and Hut are the two biggest Duran fans of this place and we share very similar views of him. However I must admit that we tend to overrate his losing effort against Hagler, in truth Hagler nearly toyed with him
