SUGAR RAY LEONARD DESCRIBES ROBERTO DURAN'S PUNCHING POWER; RECALLS CONTENDER SPARRING WITH MORA
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- čas přidán 25. 05. 2016
- "This guy hits so hard...he'll make you miss and then he'll go to the body...his sequence of punches to the body, to the midsection was out of this world," stated Hall of Fame legend Sugar Ray Leonard, who talked about what it was like to face fellow Hall of Fame legend Roberto Duran. Check it out!
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Duran did not only hit hard but also was a very skilled boxer. I heard an interview with Iran Barkley and when asked who was the most skilled fighter he ever faced and of course he said "Duran!"
Hagler made the same statement. Truth be told and that speaks volumes.
Hagler said the same
Dude Ray was generous enough to give you his time. Let him speak. Shut up and learn from a legend.
Thanks 😊
This dude talking way too much..
Who is he even 😅
Love, love, love Roberto Duran !! Best Boxer Ever !! I grew up watching him.
Manny Pacquiao is better Pacquiao destroys Duran
@@GamingforNostalgiaForFun Q barbaro estas lejos del box
@@GamingforNostalgiaForFun duran knocks him out
@Grand Gaming Legend Oh.....How I'd LOVE to take THAT bet!!! Pacquiao NEVER dominated 1 division, EVER, like Duran did at Lightweight. I'd give Pacquiao 3 rounds and still take Duran for the win....
Duran fan here but who can't admire Sugar Ray!! So very classy!!
Sugar lame is gay like u
Every great fighter had respect for Duran. You name them, Tyson,Haglar, Leonard, Hollyfield, even fighters that did not like Duran like Barkley admitted that Duran was the most skilled and crafty fighter he ever faced!
I had a chance to spar with Duran years ago when he was training to fight Pipino Cuevas. I chickened out, he was beating the hell out of everybody!
@@albertsarinana428 Aww man u missed the opportunity of a lifetime. 😭
After their first fight, I remember Ray saying he was pissing blood because Duran body shots were so hard.
When you really think about it and realize that Duran was a natural Lightweight (practically unbeatable in that Division) who in order to pursue bigger paydays had to blow up in weight and fight physically larger opponents, most of whom had great punching power and who were often stronger and younger than he, and to still have had great success in those higher weight divisions and still be standing at the end of vicious matches against the likes of Marvin Haggler and Iran Barkley, both of whom were known for knocking out the majority of their opponents, well that is just a testimony to how great and determined a boxer he was. Sure, he suffered a devastating knockout against Thomas Hearns, a much larger, younger opponent who caught him with a perfect punch coming off the ropes --- wouldn't be the first time a great boxer suffered a crushing knockout defeat --- it happened to many of the greats including Joe Louis, Joe Frazier, Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard and even Hearns himself several times. And as for the infamous "No Mas" fight, well he likely would have lost to Leonard that night regardless of whether he had trained properly (which he had not) since Ray was determined that evening not only to avoid the same face to face infighting that lost him the first match with Duran (the one and only time Leonard lost a fight in his prime) but also to try and publicly embarrass Duran --- a simple, no doubt about it decision would not have satisfied Leonard and his fans at that point, they were out to try and belittle and humiliate Duran in every way possible by avoiding an actual slugfest and making it a bit of a clown show. Duran (who was truly not himself that night, for various reasons for which he had mostly himself to blame), was not going to give Leonard and his fans the luxury of dragging out that type of farce for a full 15 rounds so he simply turned his back on everyone (including his own fans) and said screw it --- a decision which greatly hurt his image at the time. I still say he would have definitely lost that night had it gone the distance since Leonard, having learned from the first fight that he could not outslug Duran, would have mostly danced around and outpointed him (a tactic he used to great effect in his later victory against Marvin Hagler). Taking all this into account, Duran, having reached absolute greatness in the Lightweight division and stepping up to Welterweight to defeat an 'in his prime' Sugar Ray Leonard, will always make him one of the absolute all time greats for me.
Quién sabe qué pasaría si Leonard le hubiese dado la tercera pelea el año siguiente...
Con 38 años, en la tercera pelea, en un momento, Leonard pelea a media distancia, con los pies en el suelo y Durán le hizo un contragolpe aterrador con la mano derecha.
Leornad contó que tuvo que ir al hospital y le cogieron 60 puntos en la cara: 30 en la ceja y 30 en el labio superior.
@ Duran is GOAT
A lightweight only followed by Pacman by that metric Duran is the Goat of his era and Pacman the Goat of his own.
Exactly
I’m pretty sure wat you said was facts I’m just not gonna read all that shii
Duran was an Expert Street FIGHTER and an Expert BOXER!!
Duran was the greatest but ray is a class act and a legend
Duran the absolute best!
Unlike a lot of famous people who put on a fake smiles in front of the cameras, Leonard is really a gracious gentleman, I seen it for myself. Could also say that about Roberto, I met him at the main Street gym back in the early 80's, I was in a group of onlookers and as he made his way to the ring I stepped out and tapped this (menacing killer in the ring) on the chest, he paused, gave a humble smile and continued!
Duran, Hagler, Ray, and Hearns were legendary but "The Hawk", for me was at par!
@@davidrosado9642 you Hawk was on drugs. Like his TRAINER said give the water i mix. Water is water.
Duran was the ultimate fighting machine! Underrated by most unfortunately
Duran is considered the best Lightweight champion ever. I wouldn't call that underrated.
Because most don’t think that at all.
it's hard to go with that statement, the only people that downgrade Duran greatness are probably "mexican boxing journalists" which somehow feel their pride being hurt because Duran was far ahead their legend Chavez, but like not even close. Everybody else, current great stars consider Duran the greatest Lightweight boxer that has ever exist.
@@yottaXT I’m Mexican my favorite fighter is Duran I love watching his fights. I boxed you can learn so much from watching Duran fight. He should be in everyone’s top 5 he went up two weight classes to beat Sugar Ray Leonard is just amazing.
@@yottaXT a lot of black fans don’t like Duran either, only black fighters and legends.
Roberto Duran was the best Lightweight ever when he fought at Lightweight that was his prime too not when he fought Leonard at Welterweight
True!
Philosopher Mr. O people say no mas but it's all there.he fought Leonard first time having already seen his peak and won.leonard beat the other two.duran got comprehensively beat by hearns but Hagler struggled
Mike Smith Duran was great, no question about it- the best I've seen at lightweight. But I've always been intrigued by something Ray Arcel, Duran's long-time trainer, said in an interview. He'd seen pretty much all of them over a sixty year period, and he said that hands down, the best was Leonard. Benny, that is. For me, that doesn't show up in the old films. But those are just old films. Arcel was no sentimentalist, and he was very definite on the subject. He said Benny Leonard was the king of the deepest talent pool in the history of the division- every guy in the top ten would have made a worthy champion. But Leonard was the class of the field. As I say, I'll take Duran. But it's interesting sometimes to wonder how a guy like Leonard, or Mickey Walker- or Jack Johnson, for that matter- would have fared against today's competition.
@@vestibulate Benny Leonard was good but Duran would have torture him
Franco Garcia I agree with you. I've seen a fair amount of footage of Benny Leonard, and a whole lot of Duran. I just can't see Benny lasting the distance against Roberto Duran. So call it nostalgia on Arcel's part, loyalty to a great sporting figure from his youth, and remember- Benny Leonard was an ethnic hero in New York at a time when those rivalries were nakedly promoted in the street as well as the arena. Arcel would have looked up to Leonard as a representative of his people. And Benny was probably nice to the kid when they met. Everything makes an impression. But Arcel knew how great Duran was. He knew.
They ask leonard the question and this guy ive never heard of or seen has to cutt him off and asnwer
And he thinks hes so smart..😂
@@fenty666666 He is a professional fighter who was being trained by Duran and Duran got into the ring to do some sparring with him in his 60s.
That guy was actually in the conversation first and they brought in Ray because he fought a prime Duran.
"Sugar" Ray Leonard is definitely a legend.
Grande Sugar Ray Leonard y Manos de Piedra Durán. Bendiciones para los dos 🙏 hermanos
I used to work out with a middleweight named Danny Chavez who ended up 28-4. Never a contender but a decent journeyman type. He’d lost decisions to Harry Simon and Hector Camacho and sparred with Duran. Told me that Duran hit harder than any middleweight he ever sparred or fought (including Simon, who could crack).
Ray is a class act the sport needs more men like him and Roberto
I feel so disrespected by this guy interrupting the great Sugar Ray Leonard speaking about the greatest Mano de piedra Duran and it wasn't even me.
Ray a class act and a legend. He was quick man!
That's my dude Ray, he was a legend in our time back in da days, my fav boxer then the rest comes after lol
I love Duran, to me he was a "fighters fighter" especially at lightweight but even on up to the heavier classes. He retired before I started so I only got to see film clips and videos of him but man, just unbelievable. Oh and I consider Sugar Ray here a legend too, some of the things I saw him do I would try and even I had to laugh at myself.. Oh well...
Guys you have a video over 60k hits. Of an absolute legend, then you have some dude talk over the top of him. Geez Ray still has faculties about him and is still all there - please let him answer.
Roberto duran is the best boxer ever pound for pound
i disagree
money maker andrew fair enough who do u think is the best pound for pound (no heavyweights)
The best pound for pound fighter of all time is Sugar ray robinson
money maker andrew fair enough
Mayweather is alot better than duran
Not the biggest Ray Leonard fan but geez that man has aged well. God bless him.
the very great SRL
They are great forever.
How can't you love and appreciate Sugar Ray I think he's such a gentleman but what a competitor my opinion he would have beat Floyd Mayweather Jr that's just my opinion And Rayi is just such act Class Act
I never liked Leonard. But he was classy and he brought his very best everytime vs the very best.
es el verdadero combate, leonard mayweather....sencillamente porque sus estilos eran similares, pero igual pienso que leonar hubiese ganado, porque su rapidez era de otro mundo y se paraba a boxear y no solo corria toda la pelea
@@lawrencedeherrera5342 why? Do you know him? #staywokeppl✌🏿
@@audrafolkes5978What are you a comedian?
Duran started to lose when he moved up in weight.In the lighter weight classes he was MURDER!!!!!!!!
Duran se hizo grande precisamente por subir de peso y enfrentar a los mejores, algo que no quiso hacer Hagler ni Golovking
And if he started to lose it was because Duran was very dependent on motivation and many times he didn't have it, like in his fight against Benitez or in the second fight against Leonard.... Or worse still, when he faced Hearn, they're not excuses, the guy then went up to 160 and beat up a giant like Barkley who had just knocked out Hearns and put up with the punch.
The lure of making more money and winning more world titles.For the smaller weight boxers is to good an opportunity for most of them to simply let pass them by.So as these smaller weight fighters move up into heavier and heavier weight divisions.They tend to lose at some point as sometimes no amount of skill can overcome a naturally bigger man just as skilled as they are.At some point shear size can become more than one can overcome.Which is all the more impressive what Manny Pacquiao has achieved in his boxing career.
Yes only to fight big fights..he should have taken more tune up fights
Duran/Leronard in Montreal was arguably the greatest professional boxing match of all time.
Duran one of the best ever.. He just fought too long outside of his prime and natural weight. The best light weight ever imo
He should have quit after Barkley. That fight took a toll on him. Barkley's body attack was brutal. That said, Duran's body attack on Barkley was probably contributed to BARKLEY going down in the 11th.
He kept on fighting too long because he needed money that’s what happened to All the great fighter
Ray was like, " BACK UP OFF ME A LITTLE BIT"! 😒
Duran is Duran
Who was that nobody interviewing sugar Ray?
I remember when that dude on contender tried to beat up SRL. It pissed me off
Sugar Ray Leonard, always a class act #duranfan
For Duran being an original lightweight and fight 15 rounds unlike Sugar Ray 12, Hearns, Mugabi, etc against perhaps, one of the Greatest Middleweights ever in Marvelous Marvin Hagler, RIP speaks volumes on Durans greatness. He lost but earned the respect of many. Ray waited until Marvin was worn down and older after the beast fight. Which took a lot out of him.
The great Sugar Ray Leonard. I think the great Roberto Duran is the best fighter of the last 50 years, since 1965. Before 1965, it was the great Henry Armstrong. I rate Duran at #4 pound per pound of all time. The great Floyd Mayweather, Jr was a great fighter. The best fighter of his era. He is in the top 10 for sure. I got him ranked at position #7 all time in my view. He beat the very best fighters of his era. He beat every significant fighter of his time and was also undefeated. He never lost a fight. Leonard to me is in the top 25. I got him rated at #21 all time pound per pound.
BestCanKeanRob2 And you are a fucking soccer fan. Go back watching your fucking M. United with shitty Mourinho lol
Err, how was Buchanan robbed ? Duran was handing him his ass all night.
Elmer Anderson you got some of it right Elmer but you need to move Sugar Ray Leonard up look at the great CB Duran Hearns Hagler come on Elmer move Leonard up where he belongs
BestCanKea Roberto Duran was the best lightweight pound-for-pound. To go up and fight Marvin Hagler at middleweight when Hagler was probably top three all-time middleweights and to go the distance and it's quite competitive at an aging Duran come on give him credit. He went through a. Of time where he just was flat Kirkland Lane got them at the right time but then he comes back and beats a Davey Moore who was a young Champion but still a good fighter with a big punch and Duran destroy him. We all know what happened with the second Leonard fight come down from 200 pounds just was nowhere near the same fighter as he was in Montreal end of that story. 33 year old Duran fighting Thomas Hearns in his very Prime but he did get caught with a great punch so that's that. But you but a hungry Roberto Duran like when he fought Carlos Palomino, you put him in with Floyd Mayweather jr. And that he would chew him up.
I like your analysis. henry Armstrong was a stamina monster with a chin that could've beat them all!! Ray Leonard should be an all time great for 2 fights; the first Hearns fight, and the first Duran fight. these fights were epic, and cemented his legend.
Duran the ATG lightweight and one of the best P4P after winning titles at welterweight, light middle and middleweight.
Sugar Ray is a class act.
Let's get one of the greatest boxers of all time on camera for an interview so I can take the opportunity to tell everyone what I think. ffs
One thing I always liked about ray Leonard is the fight commission never could rip him off in money although Leonard has lots money investments make money with . It takes money obtain lot money .at least he knew how to invest what he did have make money from all that .
Sergio is lucky SRL didnt have a flashback and drop his ass lol
lmaooo can relate
Roberto Duran is a top 5 fighter of all time but these idiots will always bring the "No Mas" fight against without knowing the backstory
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I always wondered how a fight between Duran and Alexis Arguello would have played out. I have the utmost respect for Arguello, but don't think he could have weathered the storm for 15 rounds.
Duran KO Ernesto Marcel & Marcel
Defeated Arguello.
Duran easy work, larger and too strong
Ray Lenard was great and always a gentleman.
Nothing worse than a skilled power puncher
Let Sugar Ray talk.
Talk about defining father time !,,,,,Sugar Ray Leonard is getting YOUNGER looking as he gets older !!!
Ring Magazine has Roberto at #5 All Time p4p
Tell me why sugar Ray stay in fighting shape all these years.
Gotta be tough for Ray, bein overshadowed by Duran still.....
the best ? who is?Duran already ranked top 10 fighters of all time ring magazine.5'7" fought light weight up to supermiddlelweight. had more knockouts than most boxer's had fights.his worst fight the early knockout to hearns who couldn't go 3 rds with hagler and lost twice to Iran Barkley.he walked away from boxing still a winner.
Sugar Ray Leonard was a great boxer but felt the power of the "Hands of Stone" Duran in the first fight, in the second one the winners were Don King and Duran's manager making the rematch with only five months between the first one.
Duran never said "no mas", he said: I don't want to fight anymore with that clown.
No mass no more or whatever he said he didn’t want none. Stop making excuses! ACCOUNTABILITY! #staywokeppl✌🏿
Hagler too is beast in the ring
I think the best way to describe him would be if Tyson were a lightweight and was just made of a rock
It'd be nice if you let Sugar Ray Leonard talk instead of him running his mouth
Bad interview.....also the true winner was Don King who gave
$7millions to Duran up front, to rematch in 3 months while Duran was still celebrating the victory from the first fight...Sugar Ray and camp knew this, and took it to their advantage. Smart move by Leonard, not so smart from Duran.
Yeah right!... Back in 1980 sugar Ray said he didn't hit harder than any of the other guys he fought he's a damn liar back then
Ummm..who dis guy never fought Duran cuttimg off Sugar?
I have never liked Ray at all but I give him alot of credit the man is a warrior. However if you watch and listen closely hes starting to have cognitive problems. I've noticed this in interviews the last several years. Hopefully it doesn't get really bad. He still looks great you can't really tell he was a fighter.
& what problems are you starting to notice about your own self.. keep the focus on self..#staywokeppl✌🏿
What the heck is Sergio mora doing here,sugar ray leonard the best fighter, ever and duran fought with loaded gloves,compliments,of a guy that was on his corner from the beginning, until he got caught and banned for life ,el negro panama!
Chavez escucha. DURAN HURACAN KATRINA Y chavez una lluvia normal.
Ray graciously suffering a fool
Ray is talking about 135 pounds guy
Sugar mama del boxeo TU estilo correlon Mari con nunca de mi agrado y cuando manos de piedra te Digo no mas me lo probo que sal
Adesanya is getting old quickly.
Who the FUCK is this guy
horseshoe in the gloves
Floyds lucky he didn't fought in Ray's era he would of loss to Ray Benítez and hearns for sure maybe Duran too
Ricahrd P'Brien oscar couldnt hurt floyd if he loaded his hands with bricks. Floyd really looked like he wasn’t even trying against oscar and won comfortably knowing oscar would gas😂
Personally, I can't stand Leonard.
Anybody who thinks goofing around and pulling childish faces at opponents makes him a great fighter is mistaken.
By now we all know how presssure was put on Duran to take that second fight. And we all know that Duran was overweight and un-prepared.
If they had done the decent thing and allowed proper preparation, there is no way Duran would have lost.
And we all know thar Hagler was robbed.
Leonard is a showman.
The worst kind of sportsman. Only in it for the $$$$$
Duran was a great fighter but he was not the best. Those that are in the best category have dominated multiple divisions against top elite killers. Duran got his ass handed to him once he didn't have all the advantages. A truly great fighter can come in at a disadvantage and still dominate. See Floyd Mayweather!
Are you kidding me? He moved up in weight and beat the hell out of Sugar Ray even tho Leonard was much taller and had 8 inches in reach advantage. And people call him a brawler, smh.
He then went on and beat even bigger guys like Moore and Barkley. The same Barkley who knocked out Hearns.
And he went 15 good rds against Hagler. One of the reasons I dont consider Hearns and Hagler that good is because they had size advantages and/or freakishly long reaches but still couldn't beat Leonard. Duran did.
Even back in the days the p4p number 1 from the 70s was considered to be not Ali or Foreman but Duran.
He is definitely in the top 5 p4p greatest of all time.
KnuckleGame100 Yours is the Most crazy and ignorante comment that i ve read in a long time. Duran is the first lightweight in history of boxing to win the middelweight, Came 12 pounds to fight Sugar at Sugar ´s terms. Fought Hagler in Haglers Prime,, Maywether waited until Pacman had grandsons to fight him. ..Very, very stupid comment with all do respect.
KnuckleGame100 stupidest comment ever. watch WWE cause you don't know shit about boxing..
Dominate against who? Some nobodies some average Fighters ? Come on the Top 5 at the Times of SRL and RD...was one class better than any opponent of Floyd... RD and SRL would have destroyed Floyd ...
Duran went up to fight didnt ask for chicken shit catch weights!