Duran or Mayweather jr??

[JimmyMac87]

Id say Duran would rip his head off

[Longhhorn71]

Id say Duran would rip his head off

PBF with his back to the ropes and Duran snarling and hair flying....not a very good picture for PBF at lightweight.

[Lobotomy]

Duran DOA 1 PBF. (And El Cholo wouldn't have needed a fucking pair of brass knuckles to make the Big Show pretend to be knocked out either. He'd have hit Wight in the nuts and crippled him for real!)

[hitman_hatton1]

i think floyd would have beaten him actually. :bbb

[laxpdx]

Id say Duran would rip his head off

Second...

[Maxmomer]

Duran would ruin Mayweather's shit. Duran TKO-9

[ninebar]

Duran hated dancer's more than anything he called them clown's what would he have made of Floyd, Mayweather SD 12

[spion]

Duran tore through some of the best fighters ever. That business of holding and trying to tie him up as he did against Hatton in the first few rounds wouldn't work with Duran. PBF would fall to Duran.

[Hatesrats]

Roberto Duran by K.O.
IMO SRL is 100x the fighter Mayweather is/was/will ever be.
If Duran can defeat a fast skilled great beard Leonard, he would destory PBF.

[teeto]

Roberto all-day

[TommyV]

Duran by decapitation.

[ChrisPontius]

Roberto Duran by K.O.
IMO SRL is 100x the fighter Mayweather is/was/will ever be.
If Duran can defeat a fast skilled great beard Leonard, he would destory PBF.

Yeah but Leonard fought Duran's fight and was not forced to do so, but elected to do so. And still, it was a very close fight. When Leonard choose to box in the rematch, it was hardly competitive... and i'm not even refererring to Duran quitting, he simply couldn't get much work done and while his aggression could neutralise the speed difference the first time around, it couldn't when Leonard boxed.

Mayweather won't try to slug with Duran but try to outbox him. Whether he can do it for 15 rounds is a questionmark, but i like his chances much more than most of the "Duran decapitates him!" remarks here. I don't like Floyd at all, but he is a master boxer with blinding speed and skill and would give Duran loads of trouble.

[Mantequilla]

Leonard is nothing like Mayweather.

[Nobudius]

The notion of "boxers" troubling Duran is an interesting view-tell that to the likes of Marcel & Buchanan. Or one can run, run, run, & run some more and "trouble" him like Bizarro, only to end up as a Top 5, Duran KO highlight clip(the Bizarro KO is rather brutal).

Usually(not always), the biggest obstacle he faced in boxing was ....."Rocky" himself.

And is PBF that much ABOVE Marcel as a slippery target? Hardly IMHO. We also need to look at the weight of this hypothetical matchup. Odd ending to that Marcel bout, btw.

While it's quite fathomable PBF troubling him, I have a hard time envisioning PBF mounting effective offense to score points "while he outboxes" Duran. Duran is hardly a sitting target.

[teeto]

Leonard is nothing like Mayweather.
The only similarities imo are that both CAN do similar things in the ring, the movement and good jab to the body being the most obvious ones. However, ii do believe that it is not the nature of either fighter to box with stylistic similarities in the ring, one is predominantly a defensive fighter, the other offensive. Both are very capable of adapting and ar multi-dimensional and can look similar if they so choose, both are great fighters, but as mentioned aove, in their element, different fighters completely.

And in their respective elements, you have Leonard, using movement to set up blistering attacks, the best of them being single, powerful hooks. And Mayweather with the 'in the pocket' and 'off the ropes' countering beautiifuly

[Drew101]

Two factors come into play in this fight: Duran's skill-set, and Mayweather's toughness. Duran's skill-set ensures that he'll be able to cut off the distance, and make PBF miss with more of his counters than he would like. PBF's toughness ensures that he'll be trying to figure out ways to win the entire fight...It just won't happen.

Duran by UD.

[radianttwilight]

I don't think Mayweather could be busy enough to outpoint Duran, and he sure as hell isn't stopping him.

PBF's been fortunate in several of his last fights that his opponents were past their prime weight. Not that it would've made any difference in the eventual outcome, but it certainly would've made the Hatton, DLH, and Judah fights more difficult.

PBF is like a James Toney in that he can perform at pretty much the same level as he moves up through weight classes - most guys, especially physical ones like Hatton, can't.

[Bo Bo Olson]

As much as I love saying it Pretty Boy is better than Leonard.
His only problem is fradgile hands....and that agains the Well at Welter Duran was not quite Hands of Stone either. Castillio? 1 was the fight where Pretty Boy bounced off the ropes like a super ball on coke for six rounds. Against Duran he'd had to do that for 15 rounds. I don't think he could...but I think he could pull out a decision, if he didn't get hit in the balls.

[PowerPuncher]

Close fight but Mayweather is technically superior, he would counter Duran flush on the button often with very flush shots who would be the agressor. Duran would throw more but miss more than he ever has and not land on the button as often as Mayweather. Duran forces the fight but isn't as big/strong as the weight draining Castillo/Hatton/Delahoya size wise. Duran would land more than anyone else against Mayweather but would still miss and get countered too much. Power and strength wise it is a close call, Mayweather is underrated in these aspects.

The better faster boxer with superior defense wins this 1 but it would be a close 1.

[Mantequilla]

Duran would make him miss with ease.

Mayweather has really bad hands as well.If he hurts his hands and can't punch with authority against Duran he's going to get slaughtered.

Thtat would very much be a factor as he will have to punch far more than ever before to outscore Duran.

[PowerPuncher]

Duran would make him miss with ease.

Mayweather has really bad hands as well.If he hurts his hands and can't punch with authority against Duran he's going to get slaughtered.

Thtat would very much be a factor as he will have to punch far more than ever before to outscore Duran.

Were assuming prime versions, Mayweather didnt have hand problems against allot of guys - Hatton/Gatti/Judah/Ndou etc

Duran would punch less than usual against Mayweather because Mayweather would punnish Durans mistakes (and Duran could make a fair few in his 135lb days - which weight is this at?)

Actually I'd love to watch this fight, 2 of the greatest ever around this weight, and both would have to be at their pinnacle. I probably come across as not giving Duran enough credit, partly because I dont see most giving Floyd enough credit.

[Vanboxingfan]

I'd pick Duran, but it would be a competitive fight. Duran's constant pressure would be the key and I don't think Mayweather could deal with what would basically be trench warfare. I think by the mid- late rounds Mayweather starts slowing down from the constant body attack and he gets the KO a couple of rounds later.

[radianttwilight]

Mayweather does best against guys who throw single punches and have poor defence.

The difference between Duran and everyone else that Mayweather has fought is that, in addition to being an offensive phenom, he has a great defence.

[Sardu]

Duran KO 14 ala the Ray Lampkin fight.

[Bing]

I think Duran edges it real tough fight tho dont know why people are saying Duran crushes him no chance of that happening imo

[pugilist_boyd]

it depends on if floyd ran like he did with oscar. if he runs he gets an easy decision if he tries to actualy fight like he did with hatton then he would get dropped by 7, but floyd would probably start running when he felt durans power just like when he felt oscars

[booradley]

Many of the posts on this thread leave me wondering if the guys who wrote them ever saw Duran at 135. He would handle PBF without to much trouble. Duran is aguably the greatest lightweight of all time, but PBF is not the best ever at any weight. The higher the weight they fight at, the worse it gets for Floyd.

[ChrisPontius]

Many of the posts on this thread leave me wondering if the guys who wrote them ever saw Duran at 135. He would handle PBF without to much trouble. Duran is aguably the greatest lightweight of all time, but PBF is not the best ever at any weight. The higher the weight they fight at, the worse it gets for Floyd.
Yes, i've seen Duran at 135. So? You're telling me that Mayweather does not look spectacular at LW?

[Pat_Lowe]

Yes, i've seen Duran at 135. So? You're telling me that Mayweather does not look spectacular at LW?

Mayweather looks spectacular at every weight IMO, I believe he is arguably the greatest (skillwise) fighter of all time, I know its a big call but I stand by it. He doesn't really have a weakness. Many people say his weakness is pressure and point to the first Castillo fight but fail to realise it is very probable he was injured, and in the rematch he showed who the better fighter was. Hatton, Chavez, De La Hoya all tried pressuring him and he outclassed each of them. Granted Duran is a whole different ball game and I would probably side with him beating Mayweather, but he does not win 'by decapitation.' or dominating him.

IMO Duran has been built up into an unbeatable myth with a few people. He wasn't unbeatable, his loss to DeJesus (whom Mayweather is better than) and his struggles at lightweight with Viruet and Lampkin affirm this. At higher weights losses against Benitez and Leonard also give credence to the theory that Duran was troubled by slick boxers. And who is slicker than Mayweather?

[teeto]

it depends on if floyd ran like he did with oscar. if he runs he gets an easy decision if he tries to actualy fight like he did with hatton then he would get dropped by 7, but floyd would probably start running when he felt durans power just like when he felt oscars
Im not trying to be argumentative here, but there really is no comparison h2h between Oscar and Duran (we do this one quite a lot here!!), if this fight is at 135, PBF has no chance of getting an EASY decision, no matter what his gameplan imo