Former WBC welterweight king Carlos Palomino had some great career. A tough, skilled, and eternally determined ring warrior, Palomino is yet another Mexican legend who so thrilled us during the golden era of the sport.
Roberto Duran scored many great wins, and he gave us so many thrilling, never-to-be-forgotten epics during his decades-long career (a pro in the 1960s, the ’70s, the ’80s, the ’90s, and the 2000s!).
Wherever you are from in the world – but for obvious reasons, more so if you hail from Panama – Roberto Duran has made some kind of an impact in you if you are a boxing fan (and maybe if you are not a fight fan).
The Sugar Ray Leonard Vs. Roberto Duran rematch indeed took place a whole four decades ago today. Even now, though, fight fans the world over have a very hard time trying to explain what happened in the ring that night in New Orleans; a city of intrigue and mystery, where the Voodoo religion is still practiced by (according to some reports) 20-percent of the city’s population.
The history of the welterweight division is rich with great fighters, truly special warriors who are universally recognised as all-time greats.
There is no doubting the talents and the enormous promise of unified lightweight king Teofimo Lopez. At just 23 years of age, Lopez, 16-0(12), has already done plenty – his win over Vasyl Lomachenko, his career highlight so far – yet he says, “We ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”
The recent news of how former IBF 154 pound champ Carlos Molina is aiming to bring back the 15 round fights (for one night at least, this in November), can get a fight fan thinking: what if the 15 round world title fight limit had not been demoted to 12 rounds?
In fantastic news that fight fans may well have read or heard by now, boxing great Roberto Duran has been sent home from the hospital in his native Panama, having KO’d the coronavirus.
News broke yesterday that ring legend, and all-time great Roberto ‘Hands Of Stone’ Duran had been taken to hospital in his native Panama, suffering from the killer coronavirus.
Right now, the great Roberto Duran is being treated in hospital for the coronavirus. There was a time when the Panamanian legend put his opponents in hospital.