Roberto Durán biography
Roberto Durán, byname Manos de Piedra (Spanish: “Hands of Stone”), (born June 16, 1951, Guararé, Panama), Panamanian skilled boxer who was world light-weight, welterweight, junior-middleweight, and middleweight champion.
Durán started his skilled profession on March 8, 1967, and received the primary 32 matches of his profession, 26 by knockout, earlier than shedding for the primary time in a 10-round nontitle resolution to Esteban De Jesús on November 17, 1972. Earlier that yr, on June 26, Durán had knocked out Ken Buchanan within the thirteenth spherical to win the world light-weight championship. Durán was profitable in all 12 of his subsequent light-weight championship matches, a successful streak that started in 1973 and continued via 1978. He additionally received all of his nontitle bouts throughout this era.
After transferring as much as the welterweight division, Durán defeated Sugar Ray Leonard in a 15-round resolution on June 20, 1980, to say the world championship, however in his subsequent struggle, on November 25, 1980, he misplaced the title when Leonard scored an eighth-round knockout. In the second assembly with Leonard, Durán was not really knocked out. Instead, in an occasion that turned notorious, he refused to proceed, surrendering in mid-round with the phrases “No mas!” (“No more!”).
Durán resumed his profession in the summertime of 1981 and went on to turn out to be the World Boxing Association junior-middleweight champion in 1983 and the World Boxing Council middleweight champion in 1989. By persevering with to field for therefore lengthy (he was nonetheless boxing at age 49), he considerably tarnished his as soon as splendid win document; he retired in 2002 with 103 victories and 16 losses. The “No mas” incident with Leonard had dimmed his popularity as properly. However, boxing specialists agreed that, on the top of his profession, Durán was one of many twentieth century’s most interesting fighters. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2007.