“That name, 'Manos de Piedra', is true, Hands of Stone. Every punch, and I'm not exaggerating, every punch that he hit me with, from the body to the head, felt like bricks, stone, rocks. He knocked my teeth back. My front, my first 3 or 4 teeth, he knocked them back because he was just so possessed. He was a demon.”

Sugar Ray Leonard on his first fight with Roberto Duran http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDYnO9gGwIQ&feature=related

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