The biggest fix in boxing history 10 million to say no Mas💰💰💰

The reason was very simple: Duran took the money, didn't have enough time to properly train to get his weight down and basically was weakened from making weight. Roberto balloons to over 200 lbs between fights...why the hell would he take a rematch so quickly. It was a bad move made for a big payday.

Duran great champion

So Duran claimed he always ate like that before a fight and that losing weight to get to the 147 lb limit was not a problem for this fight and that he was in better shape than he was for the first fight. But he also contradicted himself by saying he would train better for a 3rd Leonard fight and that he felt they were both weight drained and Leonard was weak and needed to move up. He also claimed Leonard didn't really beat him and couldn't really beat him but contradicted himself by admitting that they were now 1-1 against each other.

Leonard knew Duran s habits, after a fight he would overeat and blow up in weight, that's why he wanted the rematch so quick...he knew Duran couldn't lose all that weight the proper way..of course he was given diaretics and was in mo shape to fight..also did you notice the size of the ring , its huge , Leonard insisted upon the biggest ring possible so he could do his running... also in Interview Leonard says no way for rematch.. clever as a fox Leonard

Duran’s legs looked like they were in cement, not able to chase. Nightmare for Duran

this interview takes place shortly after the fight, you can see Duran is still puffy after being re hydrated and filled with food. He must have starved himself to the bone during training and got as many fluids out of his system as possible. Duran took the fight for money, Ray bought his title back. King told Duran there would be a 3rd fight.....Duran didn't know it would take 10 yrs......again, Ray wanted no part of a prime Duran.

I have met Durans Coach. He legit would blow up over 200lbs and ate some good cajun food right before this fight

why didn't Howard ask Ray if he was doin coke? Everyone was doin coke in those days. Hagler, Duran, Leonard, Argeullo, Pryor....just to name a few.

leonard is a coward he waited 10 years to fight duran for the third fight and when he fouth haglar he waited till haglar was ready to retire when he fought hearns he waited for the final 10 second of every round to fight the rest of the rounds he was running. hes a coward

To be honest he (Duran) lost the first fight too

Considero a Roberto Duran el mejor boxeador de la historia por sus logros sin embargo por inresponsable perdio la segunda pelea frente a Leonard haciendo el ridiculo mas grande de su carrrera.

Error de Duran comer de esa manera antes de la pelea....después de una dieta estricta para dar el peso ese mismo día....Duran quedo con la moral por el suelo....

When duran wins it's okay but when he loses he has excuses

Why take a fight that u know you not ready for

Duran left the ring early because he needed a sh it

You didn't fight you ran around like a chicken!

Even if Duran was sick, Leonard was far superior on the second and third fights. I dont know why people had issues with Leonard, he was a boxing genius. Duran beat him on the first fight. Thats why Duran is a hall of famer. He beat a great boxer and became a legend. Fights like these is what made boxers rich. Nowadays is just not the same.

Duran ate a steak just before the 2nd Leonard fight, and for some whatever reason,it didn't agree with his stomach. This happens though. Could've been Tainted meat,or Duran's unusually taxed and depleted body just wasn't ready to eat that kind of food,but he did,mainly out of severe desperation due to the extreme weakness that he obviously felt. What you're supposed to do,as a boxer or mma fighter, is fast from meats for a good week or so,just before the fight, to avoid that risk of eating possibly Tainted meat that will cause stomach problems and physically debilitate you're abilities in the ring. Duran was fasting away like a concentration camp prisoner for 2 and a half months to lose over 80 lbs in that short of time span. He went from 230-147,which left him in a very weak emaciated physical state of being,thus why he chowed down on that steak just before the fight out of a mindset of desperation,due to feeling so weak and vulnerable.

He QUIT! Period! It destroyed his legacy..._UCK!!!!

Leonard should gave Duran a rematch right away, Duran gave him a rematch.

No mass No mass! Sugar was too fast and too furious in this fight. Ray Arcel admited Sugar was controlling the fight. Actions speak louder than excuses especially in boxing. Also when cool and colective you can deal with any bully, thats any bully!!!

That second fight was all mularkey. It was a NATIONALISTIC PLOT to get the title back to America because the great Roberto Duran EMBARRASSED American boxing. Duran humiliated their Golden Boy and American boxing in its totality. They had to make a quick rematch, because it was unacceptable that a macho man that was considered uneducated and a bully, be the #1 boxing guy. They tried it for years by putting Muhammad Ali first on the covers, but in reality, the #1 fighter of the 1970s decade was Duran. So, Sugar Ray Leonard becomes the answer to the Panamanian legend. Just like The Monkees or the Byrds were the sorry answer to the British Beatles. Leonard was no match. But the excuses came that he didn't fight his fight and a rematch gotta be made very quickly. Because a lot of millions were involved, the rematch was done quickly as possible. It was unacceptable for American media to accept the Panamanian that came from 2 weight classes down to beat their superstar. The $8 million dollars was THE BIG BAIT and Duran's management team took it behind Duran's back. It was never in Duran's interest but theirs. It was big money then. And big money now. Anybody would have been baited by that type of money offer. If Duran's management team would have played it Smart, they would have said, give us more time to think about that and talk to Roberto, but they sold their souls to the devil. They got greedy, and No Mas happened. If it were by normal circumstances, Duran would have been in better shape and No Mas never would occurred. But, unfortunately, it did. It is part of his boxing history. But, the guy won 2 more titles after that. That's INSANE AND INCREDIBLE. To me, Duran is a top 5 all-time pound per pound great.

Well known Leonard gave the rematch to soon because he knew he would driink and eat alot after a fight. That why he ran around the ring like 🐔!

El manejador de Duran acepto la pelea por el dinero y ya Duran tenía 40 libras de sobrepeso y Leonard nunca dejo de entrenar. Si ven la definición corporal de la primera pelea con la segunda, Duran se veía gordo y lento. No hay comparación y Leonard sabía que si hacian la tercera pelea inmediato seguro Duran volvía a ganar. Duran le peleo en la primera pelea con mejor boxeo y contundencia, jamás nadie le dió tal golpiza a Leonard.

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