Roberto Duran vs Esteban DeJesus III Rounds 1-3

Roberto Duran in his prime.

Rounds 1, 2 & 3

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[Armando316]

Duran was a great boxer. Had all the skills. Great jab, could box outside, could box inside, he could brawl, he could counter punch. He had it all.

[ExplosiveThinMan]

Leonard was the world champion and had just went 15 rounds vs Benitez. He was also the favorite going into that fight.

DeJesus was an excellant lightweight. He had knocked Duran down in both their previous thats why the strategy in their third bout was smart. Duran didnt get wild he used his boxing skills.

You dont have to run around the ring like a clown to have boxing skills. Duran was from the old school. He stood right in the pocket and made him miss and make him pay.

[RapedByRepublicans]

de Jesus is to Duran as Valdes is to Monzon.

[RapedByRepublicans]

@AlexisArguell very true, Leonard is a first ballot hall of famer (obviously) but he's still not as great as Hagler, Hearns, or especially Duran. You know what I liken it too? Erik Morales, Morales could've been Leonard if he wanted to, he could've outboxed Barrera and probably Pacman too, but he didn't want to, if Leonard had fought his whole career like he did in the first Duran fight, I would love him, but he decided he'd rather win than be great/entertain. Morales made the opposite choice

[fischparov]

You have to shake your head at the DURAN haters, He was at lightweight GOAT at lightweight Maybe joe gans, ike williams, or chavez couldve taken him Maybe. And Buchanan was a slick excellent boxer & Dejesus was a badass in his own right

[rickyp4ever]

I'm from Panama but great respect for Boricuas great humble people like baseball player Roberto Clemente, de Jesus, Benitez, Ricky Martin ect, love you all, my respect for all BORICUAS!!!!!!!!

[theman1819]

@ExplosiveThinMan yeah but that was cause he won that gold medal, and dont forget duran had tons of connectons with carlos eletra

[ExplosiveThinMan]

@northpoint43m

Agreed. Duran had been the champion all those years. He had earned respect and fought his way to the top the same way the old school fighters did. Leonard by comparision was handed big purses, not that he wasnt a great fighter himself but he didnt have to work his way to the top the way Duran did.

[ExplosiveThinMan]

@vidnut67

Thats true. Once he lost some of his speed in the mid 70s he found out just how good his chin was. After the Foreman fight especially he was like a kid with a new toy. By the late 70s he was laying on the ropes and fighting very lazy and he allowed himself to take punishment. Also in training he took alot of blows because he thought he could get away with it.

[northpoint43m]

Actually,..tho Duran's record going into the fight was damn near perfect, 72-1, he went into th is fight a 3-1 UNDERDOG!!,..THANKS TO THE AMERICAN PRESS. IT baffles me to t his day, cuz Leonard was bigger, supposedly stronger, n faster,..and boxing's newest darling,...lol. This was Duran 's chance to show the world, and he knew it, and hated the american press for not giving him h is due.

[vidnut67]

@ExplosiveThinMan Ali's salvation was his chin, even more so than his speed. Even in his first career in the 1960s he got hit a lot more than current ring historians and observers care to admit (watch his fights against Jones, Chuvalo, and Mildenberger, to name a few), but his chin saved him even then. Gil Clancy was correct when he said that without Ali's chin, which he called the greatest in heavyweight history, Ali would have been just an average fighter.

[vidnut67]

@ExplosiveThinMan Ali had the height and reach to control a fight in the center of the ring, but with the exception of the Foreman fight he seemed to forget about leverage once he came back in 1970. The calcium deposits in his hands that caused pain in a lot of the fights that he had post-1970 may have been a factor, but a lack of ring fundamentals, equally as much as ring rust from the layoff, caught up with Ali by that time, especially when he faced tougher opposition than in the '60s.