Roberto Duran was the walk out bout on November 12, 1982 at the Orange Bowl in MIami, Florida. He closed the show vs. Jimmy Batten, and won a 10-round decision after Alexis Arguello and Aaron Pryor fought their epic battle on HBO that Friday night. Immediately after, Duran signed with promoter Bob Arum to revive […]
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After quitting against Sugar Ray Leonard on November 25, 1980 in New Orleans, Roberto went home to Panama as a disgrace to his country. His macho image had been shattered, and he withdrew to himself for months, without a word being heard from him. By the summer of 1981, he talked of a comeback at
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‘The Brawl in Montreal’ was set for June 20, 1980 at Olympic Stadium in Canada, and it would be the first time I saw a closed-circuit fight live. I was in Dallas, Texas for the month of June 1980 for residence airline training for a new job, and took a bus transfer to the Tarrant
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Roberto Duran was born on June 16, 1951 in Guarare, Panama. He was raised in the slums of Panama City, and began a boxing career in February of 1965. His record as an amateur was 29-3, with all three of his losses coming in his first three bouts. He made his professional debut at age
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This is My List of the 5 Best Chins in Boxing History.
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This is my list of the Top 10 Fighters with the Best Left Hook
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Joseph Louis Barrow was born on May 13, 1914 in rural Alabama. In 1926, his family moved to Detroit, Michigan, where Joe went to vocational school to learn cabinetmaking. He made his amateur career at 17 in early 1932, and quickly developed as a boxer. He won a list of amateur titles, before finishing with
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Joseph William Frazier was born on January 12, 1944 in Beaufort, South Carolina. After working as a sharecropper as a youth, a 15 year-old Frazier moved to Philadelphia in 1959. He began an amateur boxing career not long after, and won Golden Gloves heavyweight championships for three consecutive years, in 1962, 1963, and 1964. Joe
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Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay, on January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. He began boxing at age 12, when a kid stole his bicycle, and he wanted to learn how to fight to get it back. After a tremendous amateur career as a light-heavyweight, Cassius made the 1960 U.S. Olympic team that traveled
