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Nobody stands out right now. Everybody has similar styles. None of these fighters have reinvented the wheel and created a new style.
Roberto Duran
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Roberto Duran
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: June 16
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Panamá
Roberto Duran
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Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.
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I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.
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Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.
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I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.
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I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars when the first bell rights. Sometimes it springs out later in a fight. But i can always feel it there, driving me and pushing me forward. It is what makes me win. It makes me enjoy fighting.
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I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was in the same era as Hagler and Hearns and Leonard and me, I don't think he would be such a big name. There is too much talk
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Currently, I'm working with a company called DRL Promotions with my partners Dan Wise and Luis De Cubas. We're currently representing over 30 fighters.
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I really feel that if it wasnt for the accident, Id still be fighting. I would have handled some of these fighters. I would have made sure that the doctors would have declared me physically sound and after that, I would have trained.
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