Throwback to Duran vs Moore 🎞️ | Top Rank Boxing

The night Roberto Duran defeated Sugar Ray Leonard was an all time classic 🔥 | Top Rank Boxing

One of Roberto Duran’s best fights. Davey Moore vs. Roberto Duran. The fight took place on Duran’s 32nd birthday. Moore was a 5-2 favorite. Duran entered the fight as the WBA 7 super welterweight contender. At the official weigh-in, Moore failed to make weight on his first attempt and had to go to a local gym to sweat off the excess poundage. A crowd of 20,061 at Madison Square Garden produced a gate of $964,305. Duran won his first world title at Madison Square Garden 11 years earlier. Duran be

I’ve studied many of Durans fights, but over the past weeks I have been studying him more closely because I’m doing a YouTube video on “How to box like Duran” I chose his first fight with Leonard because Leonard made him fight at his best. While watching this part of the fight, Leonard throws a right uppercut to the body then comes up to the chin, Duran who was already watching Leonard’s right hand twisted his head to get away from the uppercut. | inaimboxing.ptg