{"id":195954,"date":"2025-10-13T00:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/195954\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T00:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:16:07","slug":"roberto-duran-says-one-boxing-legend-hit-him-so-hard-it-knocked-him-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/195954\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberto Duran Says One Boxing Legend Hit Him So Hard It ‘Knocked Him Crazy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Panamanian great Roberto Duran<\/a> shared the ring with a number of heavy hitters throughout the course of his 119-fight professional career.<\/p>\n

\u2018Hands Of Stone\u2019 turned over to the paid ranks back in 1968, where he would establish himself as one of the most exciting fighters in the sport within a matter of months.<\/p>\n

He went on to capture major world titles in four weight classes, including the undisputed world lightweight championship which he won back in 1978 when he stopped Esteban de Jesus in the 12th round of their clash in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Duran would become one of the Four Kings alongside fellow legends Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns.<\/a> As a naturally smaller man, Duran went 1 \u2013 5 in the quartet, earning his lone victory over Leonard in 1980, while suffering defeats in rematches with Leonard, as well as losses to Hearns and Hagler.<\/p>\n

In a resurfaced interview<\/a>, Duran recalled his 1984 showdown with Tommy Hearns and praised to the outstanding punching power of the American great, who \u2018knocked him crazy.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cMy problem was that I brawled with him and lost my head. That\u2019s when I screwed up. My corner told me something after the first round, but I can\u2019t remember what it was because I am still a little dizzy. Damn, I tried to get under those long arms, and he knocked me crazy with that right hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018The Hitman\u2019 stopped Duran in the second round of their Las Vegas clash which was dubbed \u2018Malice At The Palace\u2019, making the second defence of his WBC world super-welterweight title in the process in one of the most memorable bouts of all time.<\/p>\n

Hearns\u2019 career spanned over three decades, during which he became the first fighter in history to win world titles in five different weight divisions. When all was said and done, he finished with a professional record of 61 wins, 48 by knockout, five losses, and one draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Panamanian great Roberto Duran shared the ring with a number of heavy hitters throughout the course of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-195954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}