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Entries tagged with "Roberto+Duran":

• Age Is Relative – May 16th, 2011

  
  
  

• Bronson, Haye, and Tyson Fury – June 23rd, 2011

  We shall see if Haye is a little big man. Does he have The Great Spirit? Will he attack or slowly be worn down?
  
  

• Lions of Winter No. 1: Marvin “The Weasel” Elkind – July 11th, 2011

  "The Weasel" has a list of backseat patrons that have included Ali, Frazier, Dempsey, Louis, Chuvalo, Liston, Marciano, Mancini, Moore, and Pryor…
  
  

• Amir Khan Artist – July 18th, 2011

  When he uses his great length, pumping that jab more actively, as Maestro Freddie has taught him, then, yes, artist...
  
  

• The Next and Last Centurion – August 11th, 2011

  
  
  

• Naming Names in the Fight Game – August 23rd, 2011

  When people say “sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never harm me,” they could not be more wrong…
  
  

• Hearns, Hagler, Leonard & Duran – August 27th, 2011

  Tommy "Hitman" Hearns. "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler. Sugar Ray Leonard. Roberto "Hands of Stone" Duran. These four men were four of the greatest fighters in history, and they all came of age at the same time. Their styles in the ring were as different as their personalities outside the ring, but they all shared one thing in common: each of them was a winner. Between 1980 and 1989, they had nine fights between them. There wasn't a stinker in the bunch, and some of the bouts were bona fide classics...
  
  

• Joe Gans: The Timeless Master – September 4th, 2011

  The Old Master was still there, still on top of the world, despite all the efforts of others to bust him down and cut him out of the picture...
  
  

• The Other Fabulous Four – September 8th, 2011

  
  
  

• Mayweather-Ortiz: The Caveats – September 12th, 2011

  Floyd will employ old school shoulder rolls, angles, left elbow push offs, and he will selectively target his shots early on…
  
  

• Postscript to a Bad Night in Vegas – September 20th, 2011

  Come with me as I return to the Silver Slipper in Las Vegas in 1976, a night grounded in the true pathos and ambivalence of boxing…
  
  

• The Best I Ever Saw: Alan Kahn – September 28th, 2011

  Roy Jones hitting the bag side to side with one hand. Fantastic. Floyd hitting the bag one-handed while looking at the HBO camera? Oldest trick in the book…
  
  

• The Case for Jorge Fernando Castro in the Hall – October 16th, 2011

  Many thought it was time for Castro to finally end his long and glorious career and considered it a wonder that he would fight again…
  
  

• Roberto Duran: Beyond the Glory – October 27th, 2011

  Roberto Duran is one of the greatest fighters of all time. Known as "Manos de Piedra" ("Hands of Stone"), Duran was a ferocious competitor, in and out of the ring. He made his pro debut in 1968 before he was 16, and went on to win titles at lightweight, welterweight, junior middleweight, and middleweight. There was no one Duran didn't fight, including Ken Buchanan, Esteban De Jesus, Carlos Palomino, Wilfred Benitez, Marvin Hagler, and Thomas Hearns...
  
  

• Mainstream Media: Marquez-Concepcion II – October 27th, 2011

  Mainstream media was once again putting forth the proposition that boxing had, amongst other things, "shot itself in the foot..."
  
  

• Manny Pacquiao? Calm Down, Dear! – November 10th, 2011

  Lord, how we need him. Take away Manny and our battered old sport would be depressingly lacking in vintage talent...
  
  

• Cotto-Margarito: A New York State of Mind – November 28th, 2011

  Two can play rough. There is nothing simple to these two different warriors. Not a simple life, this boxing...
  
  

• Induct Fierce Eagle into the Hall – November 29th, 2011

  Masaki Kanehira, Japan’s most renowned trainer and known as the maker of Japanese champions, called him “A genius who appears once every 100 years…”
  
  

• The Betrayal of Holly Holm – December 6th, 2011

  Lost in the intrigue of Eyegate and in the subsequent hysteria and jubilation of Cottorama, something happened in Albuquerque, New Mexico Friday night...
  
  

• All I Want for Christmas...Floyd, Tattoos, Manny – December 7th, 2011

  Santa I would ask you to consider an Immaculate Conception, that being the idea of finally having Manny Pacquiao fight Floyd Mayweather…
  
  

• Bob Arum: 80 Years Young – December 8th, 2011

  
  
  

• Steve Smoger: Master of an Art Form – December 25th, 2011

  Smoger, the real article, speaks for itself, and by action, for himself. There is no need to draw attention...
  
  

• The Culture of Boxing: Fourth in a Series – December 28th, 2011

  When the bell rang, the kid, a favorite, started fast but then found himself being surprisingly battered by his supposedly light-hitting opponent…
  
  

• Camacho – January 12th, 2012

  In the end, Hector "Macho" Camacho has left the game on his own terms and he did it HIS WAY. Few have done that…
  
  

• Iran Barkley: The Man Who Beat The Man – January 14th, 2012

  Perhaps Iran, so tough, so fearless, so uncompromising in the ring, was damaged by these same qualities outside the ring…
  
  

• The Big Easy Does It – January 29th, 2012

  
  
  

• Return to Sender – February 7th, 2012

  
  
  

• Roberto Duran vs. Iran Barkley – February 4th, 2012

  There was only one Roberto Duran. But come to think of it, there was only one Iran Barkley as well. Duran, aka Manos de Piedra (Hands of Stone), met Barkley, aka The Blade, on Feb. 24, 1989, at the Atlantic City Convention Center for Barkley's WBC middleweight title. Six months earlier The Blade shocked the world no less than he shocked Thomas "Hitman" Hearns with a dynamic TKO3. The legendary Duran was 84-7 going into the fight with The Blade. The less legendary but no less rugged Barkley was 25-4. The Ring awarded Duran-Barkley Fight of the Year honors for 1989, and for good reason...
  
  

• What is Boxing’s Most Unforgivable Sin? – February 21st, 2012

  Quitting is boxing’s unforgivable sin, the easiest route to the land of boxing purgatory…
  
  

• Roger, Floyd, and Sugar Ray Robinson – March 14th, 2012

  Roger Mayweather the boxing historian should have stopped while he was ahead. But stopping while he’s ahead is not Roger’s style…
  
  

• The Dragon Slayers, Part III: Frankie Randall – March 18th, 2012

  Unfortunately for Chavez, Frankie Randall was not Meldrick Taylor and had little regard for what was supposed to happen…
  
  

• Four Kings Reunite in Canastota – March 19th, 2012

  
  
  

• Postcard From Panama: Duran’s Place – March 19th, 2012

  One hundred and nineteen of those battles and still here, still a pistol, and in great shape this GRAND CHAMPION DURAN…
  
  

• Rise of the House of Usher – March 22nd, 2012

  
  
  

• Who Died and Left You King? – March 27th, 2012

  With all his experience in the advertizing business, Sugar cleverly promoted himself as the cigar-chomping front man, the Damon Runyon of his era...
  
  

• Remember When: A Card Worth Remembering – March 27th, 2012

  Tony Soprano, Nucky Thompson, Gordon Gekko are part of a long list of movie tough guys. But that’s just Hollywood...
  
  

• Golden Days Donny Lalonde – March 28th, 2012

  Donny "Golden Boy" Lalonde always dreamed and still dreams big, and more often than not those dreams have come to fruition…
  
  

• The Memory Bank: Part Two – April 10th, 2012

  
  
  

• Postcard from Panama: Gimnasio, of Dreams to Heroes – April 16th, 2012

  We started to think that perhaps midway through the dinner there would be a bongo drum roll and Duran would make his entrance…
  
  

• Yori Boy Finally Does It – April 26th, 2012

  
  
  

• The Compassionate Corner – April 30th, 2012

  Sometimes a fighter has an unwritten pact with his corner, that if he simply no longer has it—if it all suddenly disappears—he must be saved from himself…
  
  

• Mayweather No! What a Bout Roger. – May 7th, 2012

  What will be will be of course but one thing will be certain; Uncle Roger, steady, boxing intelligent, will be in that "Money" corner…