Revered coach, commentator and struggle analyst, Teddy Atlas, as soon as made his prediction for a struggle between Panamanian legend Roberto Duran and American famous person Floyd Mayweather.
Duran gained titles in 4 weight divisions, claiming honours at light-weight, welterweight, super-welterweight and middleweight throughout a 119-fight skilled profession that spanned between 1968 and 2001.
In the meantime, Mayweather retired undefeated with an iconic file of 50-0, having dominated in any respect 5 weights between super-featherweight and super-welterweight, together with his defensive wizardry making him tough to wreck and subsequently defeat all through his time within the ring.
Nonetheless, on his YouTube channel, Atlas picked out one in all Mayweather’s closest shaves when discussing how ‘TBE’ would have fared in opposition to Duran, recalling the time he was ran shut by Mexico’s José Luis Castillo.
“Floyd had a tricky struggle with Castillo, a tricky struggle, two of ‘em.”
“Lots of people thought he [Castillo] gained the struggle, it was a really shut resolution. The primary one, had some controversy hooked up to it, powerful struggle. Everybody’s had a tricky struggle, I may decide them out of Duran too however I’m saying that, if he [Mayweather] had a tricky struggle like that with Castillo, OK, Duran just isn’t Castillo.
“I’m not knocking Castillo in any respect, he is an efficient, strong man however he’s not Duran.”
Equally, Atlas then went on to recollect how Duran handled an elite boxer in Ken Buchanan again in 1972, when he knocked out the Scotsman to first get his arms on a world title and actually announce himself to the world of boxing.
“It was physique work and it was relentlessness [that helped Duran beat Buchanan] and we wouldn’t have beat such a great boxer [without it]. We speak about Mayweather, he was a terrific boxer, he is a good boxer, properly Buchanan was an incredible boxer and Duran did what he needed to do.”
These two bouts offered Atlas with sufficient perception into how a match-up between Duran and Mayweather would have unfolded, as he finally decided that Duran would have come out on prime.
“I’m going to go along with Duran pushing the struggle, in management and being the boss, a bit bit. I’m not saying that Floyd goes to be relegated to simply surviving, however a bit bit extra surviving than combating and on the finish of the day, I’m going to go along with Duran by unanimous resolution.”
Regardless of successful simply one in all his 5 fights in opposition to his fellow ‘4 kings’, Mayweather named Duran as one of the best of the well-known quartet, labelling him as ‘the best light-weight of all time’. The respect has not at all times been mutual, with Duran typically saying Mayweather wouldn’t have survived in his period.
