Is Roberto Duran the best lightweight of all time?

[TheEvilSaint]

benny leonard
julio cesar chavez
pernell whitaker
alexis arguello are all better lightweights than duran.

[jabsRstiff]

benny leonard
julio cesar chavez
pernell whitaker
alexis arguello are all better lightweights than duran.

Those are great fighters....but only Leonard & Whitaker COULD be rated as better lightweights.
Arguello & Chavez, though tough as **** at 135, didn't accomplish a whole helluva lot at that weight class.

[Briman15]

Leonard or Duran are the only contenders

Who else has been for a decade clearly the best in that division. Both went on too long, but in there primes, they were unmatched each avenging all legitimate losses in grand style

[The Troll]

The fight that really made me respect Duran was against Hagler. Going all the up from 135 to 160. He fought well against Hagler, and I think his power and skills and pretty much everything else carried up to 160 in a pretty amazingly. Hagler looked sharp on the night he fought Duran and Duran gave an extremely good account of himself. Hagler looked x2 sharper vs Duran than he did vs Leonard. Vs Leonard he looked like ****.

I think he has to among the best lightweights ever. Based not only on his accomplishments in that class but also what he did after moving on.

Sorry to my Mexican friends here. But Duran > Chavez

[IwatchBoxing]

Chavez (not on Durans level for sure)wasnt even at Lightweight that long.


Its between Carlos Ortiz


and

Duran

[+= El Jefe=+]

Chavez (not on Durans level for sure)wasnt even at Lightweight that long.


Its between Carlos Ortiz


and

Duran

let me guess Carlos Ortiz is Puerto Rican

[IwatchBoxing]

let me guess Carlos Ortiz is Puerto Rican

Let me guess Chavez is Mexican...

Ortiz record speaks for itself, where Chavez wasnt even a real lightweight great, get tha flock outta here, he didnt do anything at Lightweight...Chavezs best work was at his first weight, where he beat a bunch of bums...

[+= El Jefe=+]

Let me guess Chavez is Mexican...

Ortiz record speaks for itself, where Chavez wasnt even a real lightweight great, get tha flock outta here, he didnt do anything at Lightweight...Chavezs best work was at his first weight, where he beat a bunch of bums...

hey for once i agree with you Chavez's bestndidnt come at ligthweight,
but Ortiz if he is the greatest lightweight of all time them Loi is the ****ing greatest welterweight of all time.
and just because he defended the wbo and wba titles 10 times dont mean ****, is hokins the greatest middle weight just because he held the undisputed title 20 times????

[IwatchBoxing]

hey for once i agree with you Chavez's bestndidnt come at ligthweight,
but Ortiz if he is the greatest lightweight of all time them Loi is the ****ing greatest welterweight of all time.
and just because he defended the wbo and wba titles 10 times dont mean ****, is hokins the greatest middle weight just because he held the undisputed title 20 times????

I never said he was the best, I had always said he is top 3.

[oldgringo]

Chavez (not on Durans level for sure)wasnt even at Lightweight that long.


Its between Carlos Ortiz


and

Duran

Don't forget Benny Leonard, Henry Armstrong, Barney Ross, Tony Cnazoneri, Kid Chocolate...all of those guys are arguably in there too.

I'd say:

Duran
Armstrong
Leonard
Canzoneri
Ortiz