“One gets the impression of Duran is that he’s a tough, rough brawler who just wades in and ducks nothing. But all you have to do is look at his face to see that is nonsense. He’s not marked up. He does a lot of cute things in there.”

Angelo Dundee, boxing cornerman, 30 January 1978 http://coxscorner.tripod.com/duran.html <br class="br">About Durán

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