Roberto Duran Hospitalized With Coronavirus
Roberto Duran has to win this fight. According to Duran’s son, Robin, the 69 year old living legend is currently being treated for coronavirus and is in hospital in Panama.
Roberto Duran has to win this fight. According to Duran’s son, Robin, the 69 year old living legend is currently being treated for coronavirus and is in hospital in Panama.
The great Roberto Duran turns 69 today. For many the greatest living fighter, for some more the greatest fighter of all-time (certainly the finest lightweight in boxing history), Duran has some truly astonishing, incredible fighting career to look back on.
As fight fans know, the nine-year, nine-fight rivalry known as “The Four Kings” gave us plenty of drama, to put it mildly.
If the great Roberto Duran-Sugar Ray Leonard fight of June of 1980 wasn’t special enough, this titanic battle was the very first super-fight in the nine-fight series four legendary lower weight fighters would thril the planet with throughout the decade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6UKxAg2Ew0
There have been many shocking, unsettling and perplexing sights thrown before us inside a boxing ring (“The Bite Fight,” “Fan Man”).
Exclusive interview by James Slater – 68 year old Edwin Viruet, who exited the ring with a fine 32-6-2(14) record, talks about one man and one man only whenever he recalls his boxing career.
With the new documentary film ‘I am Duran’ currently getting nothing but great reviews, Duran is a fighter many young fight fans may be getting introduced to for the very first time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4z-07CnkrU
Heaven knows, the decade that was the 1980’s saw some truly magical, beautifully epic and violent middleweight wars unfold in the ring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS5Ngj3OufQ
It was an unbelievable sight, a thoroughly unpredictable event. The great Roberto Duran, for many the toughest of all tough guys, quitting in the ring.
Many years ago, live on air when calling the ferocious, bad blood battle between middleweights Roberto Duran and Iran Barkley, commentators Gil Clancy and Al Bernstein had a bet: would “Hands of Stone” and “The Blade” embrace or shake hands at the conclusion of their intense fight?