Luis Parra<\/a>, three-division conqueror Erik Morales picked his countryman, Chavez, to overcome Duran, if the bout were to take place at 140lbs, but admitted it could be a different story one division down.<\/p>\n\u201cEveryone has their strengths and weaknesses. I think Julio, without a doubt, at 140, nobody would have beaten him. I don\u2019t think Dur\u00e1n would have beaten Julio at 140, but at 135 I think Dur\u00e1n was very solid. Ch\u00e1vez was strong and solid too, but not as much as he was at 140. I think Julio C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s best version was at 140.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAt 135 he had some good wins. If I remember correctly, at 135 he fought LaPorte, Edwin Rosario and several others. But at 140, he was more solid. There was Camacho, Taylor \u2014 there was another level of boxing there and he was really strong at 140. Dur\u00e1n at 135 was very solid too, he was very tough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both men notched over 100 professional wins in their much-lauded careers and were linked to an exhibition bout against one another in 2016<\/a>, but it never materialised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julio Cesar Chavez and Roberto Duran are hailed as two of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the history…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-917538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}