Clottey vs Cotto. Did you watch?

Make your case for why duran is over rated. Go on make it.

He beat every lightweight that was for 8 years and then beat an all time great in leonard when nobody beat leonard.

He won titles spanning 5 weight classes.

A few good fighters? Esteban de jesus was in the opinion of some boxing historians a great lightweight and duran beat him 2X. Leonard, palomino, cuevas, moore, barkley all champions.

Who did hatton beat? Kostya Tszyu past his prime. Who else?

Again hatton was destroyed by a great southpaw who was actually smaller than than him. How would hatton have faired against a great southpaw 20 lbs larger than him in hagler? Duran fought hagler toe to toe for 15 rounds. Hatton would have been out in one.

 

who really watches boxing anymore??? mma is taking over

 

Plenty who aren't entranced by fad sports.

 

i wasnt trying to be mean or anything to fans of boxing. it just seems that boxing is on the way out. i remember growing up that there used to be fights on every wed and friday night, you knew who the big names were and the belts they went after.

i dont watch either of them...was just a broad comment

 

I would rate the division now about as good as it was before leonard and hearns became champions when the 2 major title holders were cuevas and palomino and then benitez beat palomino. Once leonard-duran-hearns started fighting for the title it was a whole new ball game.

A good example is cuevas a good fighter who won his title by a KO and then defended it 8 times all by knockouts. Then when he faced hearns he looked like a little boy looking for a place to hide. Gloat would look at a fighter like cuevas and think he was an all time great. To me cotto is a cuevas.

 

Fighting with clown gloves! :clown::bully:

 

clottey was robbed, other than the first round weak knock down and when he got pinned in the corner in the 5th he won easily.

although he did whine the entire fight, despite head butting cotto.

 

I was just messing with ya cause I remember saying that in another boxing thread and it bothered ya.

It's cool, I used to enjoy boxing but now that I'm hooked on MMA boxing just isn't very entertaining. I don't know if its the lack of top fighters, or the overall corruption that has plagued the sport, or just that watching minutes of covering up, hugging, and throwing punches isn't as excited as knockouts, kicks, flying knees and some of the other things that happen in MMA.

Oh and I will say I think boxing is actually more dangerous to a person than MMA. at least in MMA the knockouts are quick.