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Roberto Carlos Durán Samaniego [2] (born June 16, 1951) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. He held world championships in four weight classes: Lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight. Duran also reigned as the undisputed and lineal lightweight champion and the lineal welterweight ...
"To make a man quit, to make Roberto Durán quit, was better than knocking him out." [6] According to Rhiannon Walker, "he explained that his manager, Panamanian businessman Carlos Eleta, made the mistake of scheduling the fight too close after the first fight, not allowing Duran enough time to drop the necessary weight." [7]
Earlier in the year, 2-division world champion Roberto Durán had lost to WBC super middleweight champion Wilfred Benítez in his bid for a third world title in a third different weight class. [5] Having lost his last two world title fights, the 31-year old Durán was thought to possibly be on the decline, though he announced his intentions to ...
Boxing great Roberto Duran was receiving medical care for a heart problem, the family of the 72-year-old Panamanian said Saturday. Duran, who was a champion in four different weight classes ...
Leonard, Duran posing with oversized boxing gloves before June 20, 1980 fight. On May 9, 1980, the highly anticipated fight between the undefeated reigning WBC champion "Sugar" Ray Leonard and former undisputed lightweight champion and the-then number-one ranked welterweight contender Roberto Durán was announced.
Cuevas had been inactive for a year after unanimous decision loss to little-known Roger Stafford in what was The Ring magazine's upset of the year for 1981. Meanwhile, Durán had suffered a split decision loss to fringe contender Kirkland Laing only four months prior, this was The Ring magazine's upset of the year for 1982. [ 5 ]
Benítez controlled much of the fight and ultimately won a fairly close unanimous decision with scores of 144–141, 145–141 and 143–142. Durán got off to a good start and won the first two rounds on two of the judge's scorecards, but Benítez took control in the third, utilizing his superior defensive skills, a jab to the head and hooks to the body to earn the victory.
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