{"id":18799,"date":"2022-08-31T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T04:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/?page_id=18799"},"modified":"2022-08-31T20:06:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T00:06:10","slug":"roberto-duran-manos-de-piedra","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/?page_id=18799","title":{"rendered":"ROBERTO DURAN &#8211; Manos de Piedra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: impact, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;\"><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/photos\/img161-001\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7865\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7865 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img161-001-722x1024.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img161-001-722x1024.jpg 722w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img161-001-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img161-001-768x1090.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img161-001-1x1.jpg 1w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img161-001.jpg 1031w\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 36pt; font-family: impact, sans-serif; color: #993366;\"><strong>ROBERTO DURAN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: impact, sans-serif;\"><strong>Manos de Piedra<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3115.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21437\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"662\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3115.jpg 720w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3115-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_3115-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/152035192_3977918135565474_8306148308658796501_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19051\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/152035192_3977918135565474_8306148308658796501_o-708x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/152035192_3977918135565474_8306148308658796501_o-708x1024.jpg 708w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/152035192_3977918135565474_8306148308658796501_o-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/152035192_3977918135565474_8306148308658796501_o-768x1111.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/152035192_3977918135565474_8306148308658796501_o-1x1.jpg 1w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/152035192_3977918135565474_8306148308658796501_o.jpg 1035w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18854\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3964-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3964-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3964-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3964-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3964-1x1.jpg 1w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3964.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: #ff0000;\">____________<\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18930 \" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_5353-e1622737276816.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_5353-e1622737276816.png 360w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_5353-e1622737276816-221x300.png 221w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_5353-e1622737276816-1x1.png 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 36pt; color: #ff0000;\">____________<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 36pt; color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_4115.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18921\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_4115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_4115.jpg 750w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_4115-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_4115-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a>________<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Durangggggg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19849\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Durangggggg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Durangggggg.jpg 960w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Durangggggg-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Durangggggg-768x747.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Durangggggg-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 36pt; color: #ff0000;\">________<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img646-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18938 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img646-781x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img646-781x1024.jpg 781w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img646-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img646-768x1007.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img646-1172x1536.jpg 1172w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img646-1562x2048.jpg 1562w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img646-1x1.jpg 1w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/img646-scaled.jpg 1953w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 36pt; font-family: impact, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Roberto Duran vs. Sugar Ray Leonard I<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: impact, sans-serif; color: #ff0000;\">The Brawl in Montreal<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: impact, sans-serif; color: #0000ff;\"><strong>June 20, 1980<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000000; font-family: impact, sans-serif;\"><strong>-Thoughts 40 Years Later-<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_17063\" style=\"width: 1041px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=guTzuum-h40\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17063\" class=\" wp-image-17063\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/roberto-vs-ray-montreal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1031\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/roberto-vs-ray-montreal.jpg 549w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/roberto-vs-ray-montreal-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/roberto-vs-ray-montreal-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1031px) 100vw, 1031px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">WBC Welterweight Title: Roberto Duran (L) in action vs Sugar Ray Leonard (R) during fight at Olympic Stadium. (<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">CLICK PHOTO OF THE FIGHT TO VIEW VIDEO THE FIGHT FEATURING FAMED ANNOUNCER HOWARD COSELL)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: impact, sans-serif; color: #333399;\"><strong>By John Rinaldi, Salvatore Alaimo, and Alex Rinaldi<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>On June 20, 1980, three cousins, future <em>USA Boxing News<\/em> Editors and Publishers John and Alex Rinaldi and their cousin Salvatore Alaimo, who became Head Writer for <em>The USA Boxing News<\/em>, were on hand for the Immortal Roberto Duran vs. Sugar Ray Leonard Brawl in Montreal, along with Joseph Rinaldi, the founder of <em>The USA Boxing News<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Leonard, 145, entered the bout a 9-5 favorite and was guaranteed $7.5 million and 80% of the closed-circuit revenue.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Duran, 146, was guaranteed $1.5 million and zero per cent of the closed-circuit revenue (the promoters were received the remaining 20% of the closed circuit revenue).<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The UPI polled 30 sportswriters prior to the fight, with 13 predicting Leonard (5 by decision win, 8 by KO win), while 17 picked Duran to win (16 by knockout win, 1 by decision win).<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"ws_application\">\n<div id=\"ws_appScroll\">\n<div id=\"appContent\">\n<div id=\"ws_view\" class=\"dijitStackContainer dijitContainer dijitLayoutContainer\" data-dojo-type=\"dijit.layout.StackContainer\">\n<div class=\"dijitStackContainerChildWrapper dijitVisible\" role=\"tabpanel\">\n<div id=\"displayMessage\" class=\"dijitStackContainer-child\">\n<div id=\"dijit__Widget_25\" class=\"displayMessage\" data-dojo-type=\"ws\/widget\/Pane\" data-dojo-attach-point=\"layoutWidget\">\n<div id=\"dijit__Widget_27\" class=\"messageArea needLayout\" tabindex=\"0\" data-dojo-type=\"ws\/widget\/Pane\" data-dojo-attach-point=\"messageArea\">\n<div class=\"cardBox\">\n<div class=\"AOLWebSuite AOLWebSuiteM1\" data-dojo-attach-point=\"bodyCont\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The fight was held at the Olympic Stadium before a crowd of 46,317 fans.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The fight took place on June 20, 1980 and the re-broadcast on ABC&#8217;s Wide World of Sports was telecast on July 29, 1980.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"attachment_19905\" style=\"width: 797px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Roberto-Duran-vs.-Sugar-Ray-Leonard-1.-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19905\" class=\"wp-image-19905 \" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Roberto-Duran-vs.-Sugar-Ray-Leonard-1.-001.jpg\" alt=\"Roberto Duran (R) nails Sugar Ray Leonard (L) with a hard right in round 2 at Olympic Stadium.\" width=\"787\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Roberto-Duran-vs.-Sugar-Ray-Leonard-1.-001.jpg 641w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Roberto-Duran-vs.-Sugar-Ray-Leonard-1.-001-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Roberto-Duran-vs.-Sugar-Ray-Leonard-1.-001-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; color: #ff0000;\">Roberto Duran (R) nails Sugar Ray Leonard (L) with a hard right in round 2 at Olympic Stadium.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Throughout the thrilling 15-round bout, Leonard averaged 50 punches per round, with 18 connecting, while Duran averaged 60<\/strong> punches per round, with 21 connecting.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Of course, the four of them all picked to Duran to win.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong> In turned out to be a watershed moment for the four of them as they would afterwards take the excitement of that fight and start the publishing of The USA Boxing News two years later in 1982.<a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3995.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18881 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3995-e1622737472798.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3995-e1622737472798.jpg 612w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3995-e1622737472798-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3995-e1622737472798-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Below are some thoughts of the surviving three \u2013 John Rinaldi, Salvatore Alaimo, and Alex Rinaldi, forty years after that landmark fight, from e-mail correspondences.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">It is a great indication and collection of what fight fans do throughout the world discussing fights of the past.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_17062\" style=\"width: 1035px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NINTCHDBPICT000585227638-e1592510023257-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17062\" class=\"wp-image-17062 \" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NINTCHDBPICT000585227638-e1592510023257-1024x798.jpg\" alt=\"WBC Welterweight Title: Roberto Duran (R) in action vs Sugar Ray Leonard during fight at Olympic Stadium. Montreal, Canada 6\/20\/1980\" width=\"1025\" height=\"799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NINTCHDBPICT000585227638-e1592510023257-1024x798.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NINTCHDBPICT000585227638-e1592510023257-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NINTCHDBPICT000585227638-e1592510023257-768x599.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NINTCHDBPICT000585227638-e1592510023257-1536x1198.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NINTCHDBPICT000585227638-e1592510023257-2048x1597.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NINTCHDBPICT000585227638-e1592510023257-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">WBC Welterweight Title: Roberto Duran (L) in action vs Sugar Ray Leonard (R) during fight at Olympic Stadium. Montreal, Canada 6\/20\/1980<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>John Rinaldi<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Well, tonight represents the 40th Anniversary of the Best Night Ever of my lifetime, with Roberto Duran&#8217;s win over Sugar Ray Leonard. In all my years of watching fights, no bout I have ever seen beats it. The only one that would have come close was if Joe Frazier came out for the 15th round against Muhammad Ali in the &#8220;Thriller in Manila&#8221; to KO Ali. Since that did not happen, then Duran&#8217;s win is the highlight of my life.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>People can say all they want about hypes for boxing events and anticipation. All I can remember in my life are three bouts that had the world&#8217;s interest, and actually exceeded everyone&#8217;s expectations &#8211; and those were Frazier-Ali I, Ali-Frazier III and Duran-Leonard I.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>On that night on June 20, 2020, all I remember is my beloved father, you two guys and Sal&#8217;s friends going crazy as Duran showed up in the best condition of his life to face off with Sugar Ray Leonard. Later the way Leonard took apart Hearns and Hagler, it makes Duran&#8217;s great win even more impressive. NO ONE in the history of the welterweight division (also go from lightweight to middleweight) would have beaten Duran that night.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19847\" style=\"width: 819px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Duran-Leonard-I.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19847\" class=\" wp-image-19847\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Duran-Leonard-I-1024x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"809\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Duran-Leonard-I-1024x700.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Duran-Leonard-I-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Duran-Leonard-I-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Duran-Leonard-I-1536x1050.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Duran-Leonard-I-1x1.jpg 1w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Duran-Leonard-I.jpg 1974w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 809px) 100vw, 809px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\">Roberto Duran with his trainer Ray Arcel before the start of the Duran-Leonard I fight.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Credit must be given to Leonard for lasting out the full 15 rounds, when I believe if it were Tommy Hearns that night, Hearns would have been KO&#8217;d.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19848\" style=\"width: 664px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/duran-leonard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19848\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19848\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/duran-leonard-1024x920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/duran-leonard-1024x920.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/duran-leonard-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/duran-leonard-768x690.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/duran-leonard-1x1.jpg 1w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/duran-leonard.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Roberto Duran and Sugar Ray Leonard before their first fight.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Of course another thing that made that night special was the presence of my beloved Dad right there with us cheering at every punch Duran smashed into Leonard. Afterwards, when we were all hugging each other, I have never been so happy. I think you guys and my father felt the same way.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>It is sad that our parents are gone and Duran has grown old and no longer fights. I believe that no fighter has ever taken his place with the mixture of charisma, ferocity and punching power that he had.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>So as this day goes on, I think of you guys, Duran and my father. For one brief evening, everything in the world stopped and we were mesmerized for 60 minutes. It is rare when after all the planning and anticipation, that an outcome could turn out so perfect. Life is not like that, but that night certainly was.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>It took only one fearsome boxer and all of us together to make the ultimate lifetime memory.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17058\" style=\"width: 1082px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Duran-Leonard-featured-777-crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17058\" class=\" wp-image-17058\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Duran-Leonard-featured-777-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1072\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Duran-Leonard-featured-777-crop.jpg 700w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Duran-Leonard-featured-777-crop-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Duran-Leonard-featured-777-crop-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1072px) 100vw, 1072px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Leonard (L) and Duran (R) slugging it out.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Salvatore Alaimo<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Reading the boxing magazines and seeing the interviews leading up to the fight built up so my anticipation and excitement in me about that fight, at age 15. It was definitely one of the greatest nights of my life, too. Yes, he was in awesome shape and was relentless. I don&#8217;t think anyone would have beaten him that night either. The judges\u2019 scorecards did not come close to reflecting the fight.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Yes, we felt the same way as your Dad. It was great to have him with us and I enjoyed seeing how elated he was.\u00a0 I was on a high for several days afterwards. The Garden was sold out, and I remember the railing next to me shaking when the crowd cheered. Epic, titanic and thrilling.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>There hasn&#8217;t been anyone like Duran since and there will never be. His accomplishments were remarkable. My Dad used to have a saying about people he admired very much, like your Dad that he shared with me. &#8220;Son, they don&#8217;t make them like that anymore.&#8221; They don&#8217;t.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; color: #000000;\">We have heard many times that Sugar Ray&#8217;s ego got in the way and he decided to brawl with Duran instead of boxing, as if the assumption was if be boxed he would have won. Rarely, if ever is it mentioned that Leonard had no choice that night in Montreal. He wasn&#8217;t dictating the fight, Duran was by relentlessly stalking him and cutting off the ring. That&#8217;s the more accurate narrative, so I think the American sportswriters got it wrong. Think about Ali, the all-time master at being a boxer. Certain fighters, like Frazier and a few others pressured him enough that Ali&#8217;s ability to dictate the fight, especially pacing, was taken away.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19903\" style=\"width: 763px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sugar-ray-leonard-fight-roberto-duran.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19903\" class=\"wp-image-19903\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sugar-ray-leonard-fight-roberto-duran.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"753\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sugar-ray-leonard-fight-roberto-duran.jpg 415w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sugar-ray-leonard-fight-roberto-duran-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sugar-ray-leonard-fight-roberto-duran-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Sugar Ray Leonard (L) misses a left thrown at Roberto Duran (R).<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>I want to express again my appreciation for you pushing us to go to that fight. To see our hero and idol perform at the height of his powers was awesome.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Thanks for reminding us of how great that June night at the Garden for what was then the most anticipated sporting event of that time. It broke the all-time closed circuit record for any fight.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>We will reflect again on June 16, 2023 for the 40th anniversary of another special evening.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17055\" style=\"width: 909px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Boxing-Legends-Duran-Leonard-I.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17055\" class=\" wp-image-17055\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Boxing-Legends-Duran-Leonard-I.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"899\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Boxing-Legends-Duran-Leonard-I.jpg 530w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Boxing-Legends-Duran-Leonard-I-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Boxing-Legends-Duran-Leonard-I-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 899px) 100vw, 899px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Duran R) stabbing Leonard (L) with a thunderous right.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Alex Rinaldi<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>The fight was certainly the greatest night of my life too.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>It was one of those nights where all the stars align to form something wonderful.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>It also involved arguably two of the greatest boxers who ever laced on a pair of gloves. To make a great fight it takes two special fighters to engage in an all-out combat war.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>That\u2019s what made this one monumental. They both gave and both took powerful punches for 15 thrilling rounds.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Duran was at best of bests, virtually unbeatable that night. No one in any era would have been able to beat him. He had the speed, punching power, and great defense to demolish all comers, which he did to Leonard.<a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_6211-e1622736308994.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18835 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_6211-e1622736308994.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_6211-e1622736308994.jpg 680w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_6211-e1622736308994-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_6211-e1622736308994-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>What made it mostly memorable was that our father was there. Before the fight some big guys behind us were touting how Sugar Ray was going to kill Duran.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Then when Duran staggered Leonard in round 2 my dad turned to them and shouted, \u201cThere\u2019s your Sugar Ray!!\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18819\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_5995.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18819\" class=\"wp-image-18819 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_5995.jpg\" alt=\"Roberto Duran on the attack against Sugar Ray.\" width=\"720\" height=\"967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_5995.jpg 720w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_5995-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_5995-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Roberto Duran on the attack against Sugar Ray.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>It is the comment that has become folklore in our family, and has forever immortalized my father in the hearts and minds of our family and to the readers of <em>The USA Boxing News<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Life is filled with so many ups and downs and many losses, but on one night 40 years ago Roberto Duran carried the torch to victory in the greatest fight and night of his legendary career. With that notable and astonishing victory, he took all of us with him to bask and share in the glory, a glory so brilliant and everlasting that had it never happened our lives would have never been the same.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18836\" style=\"width: 574px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_6213.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18836\" class=\"wp-image-18836 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_6213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_6213.jpg 564w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_6213-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_6213-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"> Roberto Duran triumphant after his big win.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>How could we not be grateful forever to Roberto Duran when he gave us so much joy that his wins have become benchmark events of our lives.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17052\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/7e1b4eb6fea9ca00042b8841ff7a3b65.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17052\" class=\"wp-image-17052\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/7e1b4eb6fea9ca00042b8841ff7a3b65.jpg\" alt=\"Duran daring Leonard to hit him in round 15.\" width=\"780\" height=\"1173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/7e1b4eb6fea9ca00042b8841ff7a3b65.jpg 653w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/7e1b4eb6fea9ca00042b8841ff7a3b65-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/7e1b4eb6fea9ca00042b8841ff7a3b65-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Duran (L) daring Leonard (R) to hit him in round 15.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Salvatore Alaimo<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\">I remember those guys sitting behind us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\">On the significance of Duran&#8217;s place in our life and of that fight and that night, Amen Cousin John.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\">John Rinaldi<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\">Thanks for your great stories. Of Course, I put on YouTube and watched the full Wide World of Sports replay of it with Howard Cosell with the pre- and post-fight interviews. Duran is funny in them. \u00a0Cosell did the best commentary of that fight. Besides that great left hook in Round Two, Duran staggered Leonard a few times with right hands in subsequent rounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\">Later when he fought Moore and Barkley, the three of us where there in person at ringside to make up the #2 and #3 greatest nights of our lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17059\" style=\"width: 844px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/duran-victory-montreal-boxing-222-crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17059\" class=\" wp-image-17059\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/duran-victory-montreal-boxing-222-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"834\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/duran-victory-montreal-boxing-222-crop.jpg 690w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/duran-victory-montreal-boxing-222-crop-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/duran-victory-montreal-boxing-222-crop-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 834px) 100vw, 834px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">WBC Welterweight Title: Roberto Duran victorious with promoter Don King after winning fight vs Sugar Ray Leonard with unanimous decision at Olympic Stadium. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Montreal, Canada 6\/20\/1980<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Epilogue<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Joseph Rinaldi passed away in September 1983. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Roberto Duran would supply us with the next two great events of our lives &#8211; Roberto Duran vs. Davey Moore in 1983 and Roberto Duran vs. Iran &#8220;The Blade&#8221; Barkley in 1989.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17120\" style=\"width: 812px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sVMkL5fQCNE\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17120\" class=\" wp-image-17120\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"802\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hqdefault.jpg 480w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hqdefault-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/hqdefault-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 802px) 100vw, 802px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Leonard-Duran 7-Up Commercial (CLICK PHOTO TO VIEW VIDEO)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Prior to the fight beginning the legendary broadcaster Howard Cosell, after mentioning Sugar Ray Leonard&#8217;s great achievements coming into the fight,\u00a0 wryly remarked, &#8220;&#8230; Duran, Leonard hasn&#8217;t faced the likes of him.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18876\" style=\"width: 880px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3988.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18876\" class=\"wp-image-18876 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3988.jpg\" alt=\"Duran returning back to Panama holding up his new Welterweight Championship Belt.\" width=\"870\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3988.jpg 870w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3988-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3988-768x777.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3988-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Duran returning back to Panama holding up his new Welterweight Championship Belt.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Well, it is fair to say that no one who ever graced the pized the ring at any time in the history of the sport, ever faced the likes of a fighter like that June 20, 1980 Roberto Duran.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"ws_view\" class=\"dijitStackContainer dijitContainer dijitLayoutContainer\" data-dojo-type=\"dijit.layout.StackContainer\">\n<div class=\"dijitStackContainerChildWrapper dijitVisible\" role=\"tabpanel\">\n<div id=\"displayMessage\" class=\"dijitStackContainer-child\">\n<div id=\"dijit__Widget_25\" class=\"displayMessage\" data-dojo-type=\"ws\/widget\/Pane\" data-dojo-attach-point=\"layoutWidget\">\n<div id=\"dijit__Widget_27\" class=\"messageArea needLayout\" tabindex=\"0\" data-dojo-type=\"ws\/widget\/Pane\" data-dojo-attach-point=\"messageArea\">\n<div class=\"cardBox\">\n<div class=\"AOLWebSuite AOLWebSuiteM1\" data-dojo-attach-point=\"bodyCont\">\n<div id=\"yiv9783708356\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"yiv9783708356Signature\">\n<div id=\"yiv9783708356divtagdefaultwrapper\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 36pt; color: #ff0000;\">____________<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 36pt; color: #ff0000; font-family: impact, sans-serif;\"><strong>A Holiday Memory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/download-2-e1575348784356.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15802 size-full alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/download-2-e1575348784356.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 24pt; font-family: impact, sans-serif;\"><strong>Roberto Duran and our Father<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 18pt; font-family: impact, sans-serif;\"><strong>By John and Alex Rinaldi<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Going into Christmas, we cannot thank our readers enough for their continued support of our website and our boxing publication for over 37 years.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EPSON008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13047 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EPSON008.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 909px) 100vw, 909px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EPSON008.jpg 909w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EPSON008-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EPSON008-768x547.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EPSON008-1x1.jpg 1w\" alt=\"\" width=\"909\" height=\"647\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000;\"> Robert Duran (R) vs. Davey Moore (L) (Photo by Alex Rinaldi)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>In an almost magical and mythical way, the sport of boxing and its fans have, since the days of the bare knucklers, established a special, lasting bond that somehow connects the viewer to the participants in the ring. It is also the type of sport that can lift one\u2019s spirits, especially when life\u2019s misfortunes and personal tragedies can tend to swirl around like a deadly tempest raining down on everything and everyone until all that\u2019s left is despair and sadness.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>No one is ever spared from this, and even the warmest of holidays often play a part in the the overall melancholy of the time.\u00a0 We\u00a0 are\u00a0 certainly\u00a0 not\u00a0 immune\u00a0 to\u00a0 this\u00a0 feeling\u00a0 and\u00a0 loss.<\/strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Cuevas-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12966 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Cuevas-1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Cuevas-1.jpg 476w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Cuevas-1-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Cuevas-1-1x1.jpg 1w\" alt=\"\" width=\"849\" height=\"659\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Roberto Duran (L) slugging\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Pipino Cuevas (R) in 1983<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Christmas was such a time 37 years ago, and it remains to this day a bittersweet holiday for us.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Growing up we had wonderful Christmas days and we still do to this day. There was, however, a Christmas where our world simply fell apart.\u00a0<\/strong><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EPSON007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13046 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EPSON007.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 896px) 100vw, 896px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EPSON007.jpg 896w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EPSON007-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EPSON007-768x547.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EPSON007-1x1.jpg 1w\" alt=\"\" width=\"896\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Robert Duran (L) looking for an opening against Davey Moore (R) (Photo by Alex Rinaldi)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>On Christmas Eve in 1982, in our house in Stuart, Florida, our Father, and the founder of this publication, Joseph Rinaldi, was diagnosed with terminal liver and colon cancer and was given only three months to live. For a few months before the diagnosis, he was suffering from intestinal pains and was losing weight. He actually thought at the worse that he had an ulcer. Sadly, he found out that at the age of 46, his days, like a prisoner on death row, were mortally numbered.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12967\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Cuevas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12967\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Cuevas.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Cuevas.jpg 298w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Cuevas-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Cuevas-1x1.jpg 1w\" alt=\"Roberto Duran (L) going in for the kill against former welterweight champion Pipino Cuevas (R) in 1983\" width=\"689\" height=\"916\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12967\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-12967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Roberto Duran (L) going in for the kill against former welterweight champion <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Pipino Cuevas (R) in 1983<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>For a man who had achieved such phenomenal success in his life, it was hard to fathom that this great man\u2019s final days were to be spent battling for his life.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>There is a famous quote by the legendary Confederate General Robert E. Lee where he says, \u201cI would rather die a thousand deaths than surrender.\u201d Our Father had what can only be termed as \u201ctrue grit\u201d as he fought bravely on, challenging the cancer along with the naysayers and\u00a0<b>charlatans<\/b>\u00a0so prevalent in the medical community. Though death greeted him at his doorstop every day for nine long months, he still kept punching back until he eventually succumbed to the deadly cancer on September 23, 1983.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SCAN0011-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12809 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SCAN0011-001-1024x730.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SCAN0011-001-1024x730.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SCAN0011-001-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SCAN0011-001-768x547.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SCAN0011-001-1x1.jpg 1w\" alt=\"\" width=\"828\" height=\"591\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>John and Alex Rinaldi with Roberto Duran in 1982<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>When you watch a person that you admire suffer so badly, who is not just a father, but a mentor and a hero, it is hard to bear and for those like us going through it, the world tends to lose all its color and replaces it with the funereal pallor of black.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1513827_10153128415600905_2442037492460619765_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19911\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1513827_10153128415600905_2442037492460619765_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"777\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1513827_10153128415600905_2442037492460619765_n.jpg 627w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1513827_10153128415600905_2442037492460619765_n-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1513827_10153128415600905_2442037492460619765_n-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>But sometimes were there is nothing but black and bleakness, miracles and heroes seem to emerge through the darkness, and for a brief time a short reprieve is granted to the forlorn.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EPSON006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13045 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EPSON006.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 885px) 100vw, 885px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EPSON006.jpg 515w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EPSON006-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EPSON006-1x1.jpg 1w\" alt=\"Robert Duran (L) pounding Davey Moore (R) (Photo by Alex Rinaldi)\" width=\"885\" height=\"632\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Robert Duran (L) pounding Davey Moore (R) (Photo by Alex Rinaldi)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>This is what happened to us. A savior arrived in the form of Roberto Duran and boxing gave us the only streaks of light, as the sun slowly shone through the cracks caused by the mighty fists of the man with the\u00a0<em>Hands of Stone.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Moore-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12968 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Moore-1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Moore-1.jpg 754w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Moore-1-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Moore-1-1x1.jpg 1w\" alt=\"\" width=\"878\" height=\"702\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Roberto Duran (r) attacking Davey Moore (L) in June of 1983<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Roberto Duran was always our family\u2019s favorite fighter. From the time he became a world champion, we marveled at his skill, charisma and punching power. Because of this, he was, and remained our true boyhood hero.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Though he reached the highest heights and peaks of boxing, by 1983, the once great pugilist was considered washed up. In 1982, he went 1-2 when he lost\u00a0 a title bid against WBC super welterweight king Wilfred Benitez on a close decision on January 20, 1982, and then was robbed in a split-decision loss to Kirland Laing on September 4, 1982. After two decision losses, Top Rank picked up Duran and set him back on his winning ways. It began on the\u00a0<em>Aaron Pryor-Alexis Arguello<\/em>\u00a0undercard on November 12, 1982. Duran was the after-fight walk-out bout where he earned $25,000 in beating Jimmy Batten on a ten-round decision.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19908\" style=\"width: 749px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Duran-MooreAJR-4-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19908\" class=\"wp-image-19908\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Duran-MooreAJR-4-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"739\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Duran-MooreAJR-4-2.jpg 526w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Duran-MooreAJR-4-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Duran-MooreAJR-4-2-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\">Robert Duran knocking Davey Moore into the ropes. (Photo by Alex Rinaldi)<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>It was during his training for Laing at Larry Holmes\u2019 training quarters in Easton, Pennsylvania, where the Rinaldi Brothers and our dad would go to visit. Before long we became very friendly with the fistic legend, and he never failed us nor ever disappointed us. <a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/xxx.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19901\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/xxx.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/xxx.jpg 830w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/xxx-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/xxx-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/xxx-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/xxx-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>After the Laing fight, and nearing the end of 1982, it appeared that there was little hope in the future of the career of Roberto Duran. Nevertheless, while others urged Duran to retire, we and\u00a0<em>The USA Boxing News<\/em>\u00a0felt that he was far from washed up. As luck would have it, so did promoter Bob Arum.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19909\" style=\"width: 797px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EPSON065-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19909\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19909\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EPSON065-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"787\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EPSON065-002.jpg 787w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EPSON065-002-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EPSON065-002-768x550.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EPSON065-002-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Robert Duran in his corner. (Photo by Alex Rinaldi)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>EPSON MFP image<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Arum\u2019s Top Rank, Inc. smartly took on Duran and matched him against the power punching former WBA welterweight king Pipino Cuevas on January 29, 1983 at the Sports Arena in Los Angeles, CA. While the Super Bowl was playing nearby the same week, the hottest ticket in town was for the Duran-Cuevas fight. So much so that a capacity crowd of 16,824 turned out for the fight and produced a live gate of $408,000. Both fighters were each guaranteed $50,000, plus a share of the closed circuit revenue.<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Moore-fight-poster..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12970 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Moore-fight-poster..jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Moore-fight-poster..jpg 602w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Moore-fight-poster.-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Moore-fight-poster.-1x1.jpg 1w\" alt=\"\" width=\"835\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>In one of the most thrilling slugfests in boxing history, Duran, 152, brutally stopped Cuevas, 149, at 2:26 of fourth round of the scheduled 12-rounder. Duran was back and his heroics were just about to begin.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19907\" style=\"width: 734px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EPSON058-003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19907\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19907\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EPSON058-003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EPSON058-003.jpg 724w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EPSON058-003-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EPSON058-003-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Robert Duran (L) walking back to the neutral corner after dropping Davey Moore. (Photo by Alex Rinaldi)<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>With the illness of our Father, we were unable to go to the fight live, but instead viewed the fight on closed-circuit at the Felt Forum in New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden. Duran\u2019s performance was so exhilarating that on this night our Father was able to forget about his pain and his dreaded outlook and immersed himself in the exciting ring action.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>While our Father courageously battled on, Duran was set to give our Dad one more respite from his impending doom.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19910\" style=\"width: 787px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EPSON066.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19910\" class=\"wp-image-19910 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EPSON066.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"777\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EPSON066.jpg 777w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EPSON066-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EPSON066-768x552.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/EPSON066-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 777px) 100vw, 777px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\">Duran in his corner waiting to get back out there. (Photo by Alex Rinaldi)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>With the win over Cuevas, Arum decided that Duran\u00a0<\/strong><strong>would make a good opponent for the undefeated WBA junior middleweight king Davey Moore. The match was then set for June 16, 1983 at Madison Square Garden.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12971\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Moore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12971\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Moore.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 887px) 100vw, 887px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Moore.jpg 460w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Moore-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Moore-2x1.jpg 2w\" alt=\"Roberto Duran (L) knocking Davey Moore (R) to the canvas in front of a packed house in Madison Square Garden.\" width=\"887\" height=\"532\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12971\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-12971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Roberto Duran (L) knocking Davey Moore (R) to the canvas in front of a packed house in Madison Square Garden.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Going into the battle, this publication was the only one who gave Duran a chance to win. With a sell-out crowd of 20,191 on hand, producing an incredible live gate of $964,305 (this was at a time when the ringside seats were only $100) Duran entered the ring a 5-2 underdog.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19912\" style=\"width: 744px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Boxing-Legends-Duran-Moore-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19912\" class=\" wp-image-19912\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Boxing-Legends-Duran-Moore-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"734\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Boxing-Legends-Duran-Moore-1.jpg 635w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Boxing-Legends-Duran-Moore-1-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Boxing-Legends-Duran-Moore-1-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">NEW YORK &#8211; JUNE 16,1983: Roberto Duran (R) connects a left jab against Davey Moore during the fight at Madison Square Garden, New York, New York. Roberto Duran won the WBA World light middleweight title by a TKO 8.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>On this night, our Father was too ill to attend and was slipping away at a rapid pace. We went in his place and were at ringside to see Duran, 152 \u00bd, give the performance of a lifetime as he tore into Moore, 154, and ferociously pummeled him from pillar to post.<a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_4031-e1622737116540.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18916 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_4031-e1622737116540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_4031-e1622737116540.jpg 422w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_4031-e1622737116540-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_4031-e1622737116540-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>As the crowd cheered, Duran scored an incredible knockdown in the seventh round and in the next round, finished off Moore at 2:02 of Round 8.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>The fight was rebroadcast on CBS on June 19, 1983 and although he was racked with pain that no medicine could subside, our Father was laying down on our living room couch and once again, his thoughts were detoured from death to watching Roberto Duran pull off the upset win. That was the last time that the pain would ever temporarily leave our Father again.<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Moore-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12969\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Moore-2.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Moore-2.jpg 938w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Moore-2-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Moore-2-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Duran-vs.-Moore-2-1x1.jpg 1w\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"476\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Things would go downhill from there. Our Father was such gallant battler, that we never thought he would die. It was as if Rocky Marciano could ever lose a fight. We thought our Dad would make a comeback. He did outlast all of his physicians\u2019 predictions and held out for nine months, while the prognostications said he would be dead in 90 days.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16663\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_2439.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16663\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_2439.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_2439.jpg 480w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_2439-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_2439-1x1.jpg 1w\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"868\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16663\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-16663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Roberto Duran (L) pounds Davey Moore (R) with a jarring left to the body.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>He did it all virtually by himself. The fraudulent medical community, more interested in taking patients\u2019 monies\u00a0 for treatments just a step above the potions of snake Oil Salesmen, were both useless and greedy.\u00a0 They showed the care of a rattlesnake and offered the hope of a hangman. My father had a better chance of climbing Mount Everest, than receiving any curing treatment from American physicians.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/photos\/img161-001\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7865\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7865 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img161-001-722x1024.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img161-001-722x1024.jpg 722w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img161-001-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img161-001-768x1090.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img161-001-1x1.jpg 1w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img161-001.jpg 1031w\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"1285\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Roberto Duran training for his fight with Davey Moore in 1983 (Photo by Alex Rinaldi)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>The comeback never came and three months after Duran defeated Moore, the ten-count was tolled for our father. Thankfully, because of the many who read this worldwide publication and website, his memory still lives on.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18879\" style=\"width: 657px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18879\" class=\"wp-image-18879 \" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3992.jpg\" alt=\"Sugar Ray Leonard congratulating his old foe after the bout.\" width=\"647\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3992.jpg 480w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3992-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_3992-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Sugar Ray Leonard congratulating his old foe after the bout.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Because this publication soldiers on and thrives to this day, our Father and Roberto Duran are both almost like the Jimmy Stewart character in\u00a0<em>It\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/em>, where Stewart realizes what an impact he had on so many people just by living his life and doing good deeds to others.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/origin-of-the-usa-boxing-news\/founder-of-a-boxing-news-joseph-g-rinaldi-in-1982\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7544\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7544 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Founder-of-A-BOXING-NEWS-Joseph-G.-Rinaldi-in-1982..jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Founder-of-A-BOXING-NEWS-Joseph-G.-Rinaldi-in-1982..jpg 236w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Founder-of-A-BOXING-NEWS-Joseph-G.-Rinaldi-in-1982.-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Founder-of-A-BOXING-NEWS-Joseph-G.-Rinaldi-in-1982.-1x1.jpg 1w\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"1030\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Joseph Rinaldi in December 1982<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>This may be an odd Christmas story because it ends in the death of an extraordinary man. But it shows that boxing and a great fighter like Roberto Duran can take away the pain of a dying man and give him a few happy moments in such bleak times, as well as offer a brief intermission from despair to his loved ones and, provide in its place, thrills and happiness during a family\u2019s darkest hours.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/2018\/12\/78\/scan0027\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12986\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12986 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SCAN0027-1024x1022.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SCAN0027-1024x1022.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SCAN0027-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SCAN0027-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SCAN0027-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SCAN0027-1x1.jpg 1w, https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/SCAN0027.jpg 1067w\" alt=\"\" width=\"654\" height=\"653\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Gerard and Joseph Rinaldi in 1982<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>\u201cWhen we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things \u2013 not the great occasions \u2013 give off the greatest glow of happiness.\u201d \u2015 Bob Hope.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>We think of our father every Christmas Eve. Although he is gone, he is never forgotten by us and is always in our thoughts, and it is every time we think of Roberto Duran, we think about the smiles he gave to a man whose life, like a broken clock,\u00a0 was running out of time.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>That is what makes boxing the special sport it is.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the both of us to all of our readers.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><strong>Keep Punching!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; color: 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