NEW ORLEANS – Roberto Duran quit. The macho man just up and quit. One moment he was fighting and the next moment he wasn’t. “No more,” he said to Sugar Ray Leonard. It was the eighth round ...

Duran locked horns with Hagler in November 1983 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. After a competitive 12-round battle, ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 1980; written by Mike Lupica) NEW ORLEANS – Sugar Ray Leonard tried to defend Roberto Duran when the disgrace was over.

A slum kid with a scrappy gift for fighting, Duran’s will to win in the ring arose, according to the film, out of a desire to avenge his struggling nation over its hotly contested, American ...

FILE - Boxing great Roberto Duran attends a news conference in New York, on Jan. 14, 2015. The family of boxing great Roberto Duran says he is receiving medical care for a heart problem.

Roberto Duran is a symbol of Panamanian sport and a world boxing legend, a member of the Hall of Fame and recognized as one of the best lightweight (135 pounds) of all-time as experts classify him ...

The legendary Panamanian boxer Roberto Duran has lived a life — and had a fight career — far more complex and polarizing than what we see onscreen in “Hands of Stone,” but this is still ...

BY the time Roberto Duran climbed into the Madison Square Garden ring to fight Davey Moore on June 16, 1983, he was already washed-up. Eleven years removed from his first world title, 20 pounds ove… ...

In the upcoming documentary I Am Duran, the Panamanian fighter's family and longtime rivals and opponents Sugar Ray Leonard and Mike Tyson reflect on his life and legacy.

Also Durán. Robert and Roberto hung out. Then, after winning his welterweight title against Sugar Ray Leonard, Durán plummeted. The film depicts him undisciplined. Understatement.

Roberto Duran is an all-time great. Don't take my word for it— Ring Magazine named him the best lightweight of all time (h/t BoxRec), while he was selected for the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán, who held world championships in four weight classes during his more than three-decade career, has tested positive for the coronavirus but has had only mild ...