Comments by "Milo Janis" (@milojanis4901) on "Top Rank Boxing" channel.

  1. This is one of the most thorough ass kickings I've ever seen. It is also one of the finest, if not THE finest, displays I've ever seen of an experienced, brutal guy who LOVES to fight, who's a legend in the ring, schooling someone with a superior body with an inexperienced head. I actually felt bad for Moore. Duran never lost his tremendous right hand as he moved up in weight. What he did lose was the ability to land it effectively. When he destroyed Moore, it pissed off Moore's buddy, Iran Barkley. Barkley wanted Duran real bad. But his style, and Moore's style, are exactly what Duran wants in an opponent. It's not a coincidence that he floored Moore, and then Barkley. Barkley was more experienced than Moore, and gave Duran a bit more trouble. Those who disagree about Duran's right hand power, take a look at the Moore knockdown. Duran hit him so hard, Moore slid a couple feet backwards after Duran sat him flat on his ass. The only reason Leonard lost to Duran was because he fought the same way as Moore and Barkley. They're ALL mighty lucky they didn't run into a 26 year old Duran......
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  2. Duran didn't really lose his power moving up in weight. But one thing he did partially lose was his ability to land those really hard punches. At least, against the top boxers. You can go up in weight, but reach stays the same. When Duran was matched against guys who would go inside and slug with him, they usually paid dearly for it. Davey Moore was one guy. And even at 37 years old, 35lbs over his prime weight, Duran put Iran Barkley on his ass, and took his championship. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Duran is the greatest LW Champion ever. He also gets little credit for being a great defensive fighter. Leonard said after their first fight. "He is not an easy man to hit."
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  3.  @Daygostylz  LMAO!!! A year after Duran fought Hearns, he was overheard still asking what truck ran over him!! When you ask what punch he KOd Duran with, I'm reminded of that mattress company, SLEEPnumber!!!!🤣🤣🤣
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  4. Greatest LW in the history of boxing. Period. And a damn nasty WW, Jr. MW, and MW!! One of only 2 or 3 guys to take prime Hagler the distance. Duran was leading on the scorecards in the Hagler fight after 11 rounds. Who else can say that? Heres a guy 25lbs and 4 or 5 years past his prime, hanging with, and beating the greatest MW Champion of my 70 year lifetime......
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  5. ​@Uprising771 You MUST be joking??? A young, undefeated HW Champion taking a dive?? LMFAO. If you're serious, you have a LOT to learn. If youre gonna take a dive, you sure don't need to wait until the 10th round, then get hit so hard it breaks your mouthpiece in two from a punch that opened a cut that needed 14 stitches to close!! Wow..... the ignorance of some people is simply astounding. I suppose you think Armstrong didn't walk on the moon, too, because it happened before your time, so it can't be possible
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  6. What morons downvoted this? Just proof there are 49 ASSHOLES who've viewed this. Nothing more, nothing less.....
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  7. ​@Smacking Noobs On Friday 13 On the best day Fury ever had, he NEVER punched as hard as Foreman. If he was just KOing everyone, his KO to win percentage would be much higher. Sure, Fury might beat George, but it wouldn't be by KO.....
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  8. Davey Moore's handlers should've been fired for putting a guy with 12 fights of experience in with a guy with as much experience as Duran
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  9. Great Fight, BUT....Reverse the ages. Put McCallum in at 23, and Toney at 35. McCallum wins easily. McCallum is one of the most underrated fighters in his weight class I've ever seen. I'm not a huge fan of either. McCallum knew his best weight was 154, and he was smart to stay at that weight for most of his career
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  10. ​​ @carlosalonso6309 He DID beat Leonard, the only man to do so in Leonard's prime. Because he was furious that SRL got all the attention, and got paid millions more. Everyone can, and will, say what they want. But if Duran wouldve fought with that same killer intensity as he did in their first fight, he probably would've won their 2nd fight. I'm not convinced SRL fought the style he did in their first fight by choice. Duran was a master brawler, inside fighter, controlling, and cutting off the ring. Duran didn't press their 2nd fight like he did in their first. He got frustrated, and quit. So unlike Duran. More surprised he quit than if SRL would've KOd him......
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  11. Poor Davey Moore. He underestimated Duran, which you should NEVER do. When Duran comes in ready to rumble, and is in shape, you can count on a war. Moore not only lost his title, but he'd soon lose his life. I blame his trainers and manager. No way he should've been in the ring with an experienced all time great at that stage of his career.....
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  12. Foreman said he got down to 229lbs at one point for this fight. He also said he just didn't feel right at that weight. So he never weighed that light again
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  13. .......And Duran took Hagler 15 rounds!!! The fight was even after 13 rounds!!!
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  14. Hagler was the greatest MW Champion I've seen in my lifetime. Another way to measure his greatness was beating John Mugabi. If it weren't for Marvin, Mugabi may have been an all time great. He beat everyone before he fought Marvin, and was never the same fighter after losing to him. If Mugabi woulda been fighting in the 70s or 90s, he could very well have retired undefeated....
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  15. I wont disagree, but the greatest I ever saw in my lifetime was Marvin Hagler. Easily.....
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  16. I remember this fight well. But I don't remember Minter saying he'd never lose his title to a black man. FWIW, I'm a white guy. To me, Marvin is the best MW in my lifetime. If Minter really said that, I can't believe he'd be so dumb. Marvin Hagler in normal mode was a monster of the MW division. But to piss him off saying something like that before a fight like this? How foolish. Reminds me of the 1969 NBA championship game between Boston and L.A., where Jack Kent Cooke had victory celebration balloons in the rafters in plain view of the Celtics. It pissed them off to the point of beating the heavily favored Lakers. NEVER give your opponents any additional incentives😂😂😂😂
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  17.  @williamsmith1803  Yawn your ass!! Duran was a great fighter. Many, and most (more knowledgeable about boxing than I am, and more knowledgeable than YOU are!) boxing experts and historians have Duran listed as the greatest LW Champ in the history of the sport. The reason you don't know who the rest of the lightweight fighters were is because there was Duran, then everyone else. His record at LW was 62-1, 55KOs. I don't know what more you need. DeJesus beat Duran on points. They fought 2 more times, and Duran kicked his ass both times, by KO or TKO. He beat Viruets ass, too. Sound like a Duran hater. Definitely in the minority with your opinion.....Yawn......
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  18. First body shot KO I ever saw was some poor lightweight. Roberto Duran threw one intense body shot, and down went his opponent. Didn't get up, either. But the worst one I ever saw was in Saginaw, Michigan. Back in the early 80s, Earnie Shavers fought some young guy there. My dad and I went to see it. Good seats, maybe 5 rows back. Shavers was on the downside of his career at this point, but he still had that tremendous right hand. After a round or 2, maybe (its been almost 40 years) they were both throwing punches at the same time. When the young guy hit Earnie, it sounded like "pop, pop, pop-pop". But when Shavers hit him, wow-It was a very loud Wap, Wap, Wap. The young guy hit Earnie maybe twice as much, but Earnie's punches were driving the poor guy all over the ring. Finally, WAP!!! The young guy went down like someone had cut a trap door in the canvas!!! Shavers hit him with that huge right hand in the side of the body. Poor guy, I felt sorry for him, as he just rolled from one side to the other in terrible pain, and was counted out. He'd probably never taken a shot like that in his life!! I remember Sly Stallone wanting to see how hard a Heavyweight hit. He asked Earnie to show him what he had. So Earnie did. Stallone went down, got up, and went to the men's room and puked his guts out for at least 5 minutes!!!!
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  19. The great Roberto Duran....The Barkley fight was his last great win. He was 37 years old and 25lbs over his prime weight. I still don't know how he dropped Barkley when Hearns couldn't do it in 2 different fights.....
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  20. Why do you think Moorer went 6 minutes from the end of the scheduled 12 rounds before he took a dive, then? Moorer musta enjoyed getting his mouthpiece split in half, eh? According to Teddy Atlas, Foreman broke his mouthpiece in half. Moorer musta enjoyed getting those 15-20 stitches in his mouth to close the cut from that punch,, ferchrissakes!!! Whattan idiot.....
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  21. Yes, he said he was stunned by the first 1-2
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  22. Ive heard that he was juicing in this period. I would hate to see Foreman, period, but would hate to see him on steroids even more! Can you imagine George Foreman on steroids???!
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  23. I've seen hundreds of fights in my life. But I've never seen anyone as unconscious as Walcott was after Marciano hit him. I don't think that punch traveled more than 14-15", but my good GOD, I thought Rocky killed him!! Musta taken Walcott 5 minutes to regain consciousness.. .
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  24. Young George had one punch KO power. That right uppercut that nearly took Fraziers head off.....I still don't know how Joe got off the canvas from that single punch
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  25. Ray Arcel and Freddie Brown always maintained that there were two types of Duran fights. One type was a fight Duran took for a mandatory fight, and the second was one he was motivated for, one he really wanted. Duran was pissed in both the first Leonard fight and in this one. He was insulted before both fights. In the Leonard fight, he got only 30% of the $$$$$$ that Leonard did. Plus, Leonard was the favorite. If Duran had fought the 2nd fight with Leonard the same as the first, he would've won that one, too. Wouldn't matter what Leonard did. Duran would've gone inside with such fury, Leonard couldn't have kept him away. But he had no motivation when compared to the first fight. Same with Moore. He was super motivated due to shit talk from Moore and took it out on Moore. Same with Barkley. When he took Barkleys title, he was almost 38 years old and 25lbs over his prime weight. Think about that for a moment. Now think of this; imagine if Duran would've been at 135lbs-140lbs, 25 years old, and Leonard or Barkley challenged him at that weight. Duran had everything. Offense, maybe even better defense, a great chin, and tremendous stamina. The only thing he didn't have was a long reach. Arcel once said people dont realize that after around the 7th round, Duran somehow "got a second wind, and could go like Hell." I saw a few guys hang with him for 6 or 7 rounds, but his opponents just couldn't keep up the furious pace.
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  26. He had 5 then, too😮😮
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  27. ​@rodd7 He was the best MW of all of them. Leonards boxing didn't beat Hagler, his media darling star power did. He didn't even have the power to hurt Hagler. Hagler landed the best shots, too. You have to beat a champion to take his crown, and Leonard didn't. You can argue he won the last 20 seconds of each round. But there are another 2 minutes and 40 seconds in each round. When it came to decisions, Leonard always got them, except in Montreal. Ask Hearns who won their second fight. It sure as Hell wasn't Leonard.....
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  28. Ask Moorer how hard it hit!! Took 15-20 stitches to close the cut in the ER!! Atlas said Foreman broke Moorer's mouthpiece in half, ferchrissakes. How hard do you want to get hit???
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  29. Totally agree. The first round of Hearns/Hagler was as good as any round in history. But Hearns broke his right hand, and the remaining rounds he gave it his best, but the fight pace slowed, and was basically over. Hearns always wanted a rematch but never got it. I'm from Michigan, and saw a lot of writeups about Hearns that didn't make the national news. For a couple of years after their fight, people would ask Tommy how his hand was doing. He almost always would say, "It's good, I'm saving it for Marvins head!!" Can you imagine fighting Hagler with one hand??!!! Wow.....
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  30. If you were scared, Holyfield musta wondered what the Hell he was going to have to do to get George outta there!! Must be demoralizing, at least. I know Holyfield asked his corner if he still had his front teeth after one of the rounds!
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  31. Good thing for Leonard it wasn't a 12 rounder, or Hearns wins on points. In their 2nd fight, Hearns dropped Leonard twice, wiped the smile right off Leonard's face, and flat kicked his ass. But media darling Leonard slithered away like a snake with a draw. Worst robbery I ever saw, except maybe the Foreman/Briggs fight, where George got a free enema from the judges....
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  32. Mayweather shoulda been DQ'd for hitting a guy when he's down... With a rabbit punch, no less!!! SMFH....
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  33. @Agustin Reyes  No, Moorer never learned. He got rid of Atlas, who had the perfect plan to beat George. But Moorer wouldn't listen. George had a plan, and followed it perfectly. Moorer says that's BS, but it wasn't. Even Gil Clancey, a one time trainer of Foreman, didn't like the way Moorer was moving. He even said so at one point that Moorer had everything going for him moving to his right. But then he moved left, and into that sledgehammer right hand of Foreman. Odd that I never heard Moorer wanting a rematch
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  34. ​@Robert Rodriguez You are totally incorrect!! Watch the fight!!! Teddy Atlas was pisssd at Moorer the whole night. Whatever he told Moorer, Moorer either didnt listen, or did the opposite.
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  35. ANY era of WWs would have struggled against Tommy. IMHO, 154lbs was Hearns ideal weight.
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  36. Carlos Padilla was usually a top referee. He really blew this one. Foreman had 2 legitimate knockdowns. One was from the body shot early, that was called....whatever, and the second had Qawi reeling backwards after a brutal left from Foreman that had Qawi using the ring ropes as a trampoline. This was early in GF's comeback, and he didnt look nearly as good as he did against Holyfield and others later on. I will say that at this point, seeing Qawi using that head movement and landing at will, I think George would've taken a beating against Tyson at this point. Because Qawi looked a lot like Tyson in this fight, without the Tyson power, of course.....
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  37. ​ @robertrodriguez787  Bowe DID in fact drop Holyfield. Get your facts straight before dropping vocal clutch
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  38. ​ @Uprising771 A TROLL for every hole
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  39. ​@grandinquizitor7412 Ali never took George's best shot right on the tip of the chin. Ali had one of the best chins in HW history. But if George would've caught him with this same punch, when he was 25 years old, Ali-Or just about anyone else-Would've hit the canvas. Ali may have been able to get up, though.
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  40. ​ @Uprising771 LOTS of times. Because they CAN'T get up. Still stupid after 8 more months....Some people are slow learners, and others (like you) can't learn at all.....
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  41. Count Moorer in that group. Atlas, and Gil Clancy both said they didn't like the direction Moorer was moving. Especially Clancy, who said it repeatedly. At one point Clancy also said Moorer had everything going his way when he moved to his right, away from Foreman's right. Then he said Moorer comes out this round, and starts moving to his left, into Foremans right. George was right. He said at some.point in the fight Moorer would stop moving, and stand in front of him, to challenge Foreman. Didn't work out so well for MM
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  42. Baseball isn't the only game of inches. Boxing can be, too. In this fight, Hearns stunned Hagler early in the 1st round. The punch that did it glanced off top of Marvin's head. It also broke Hearns right hand. If that punch had landed on Marvins jaw, the fight was over. Instead, it kind of crippled Hearns, and the fight was over less than 9 minutes later. Taking nothing from Marvin, because, in my opinion, he was the greatest MW in my lifetime, which is 71 years. But can you imagine the guts it would take to get in the ring with Hagler, then imagine fighting him with one hand?!! Kudos to Hearns, who still kept throwing the right hand, but it had no impact after that. When Hearns KOd Duran, he showed me he could KO anyone, including Hagler. But that punch missed Marvins jaw by several inches. Hagler knew Hearns had tremendous power in that right hand. Why? Because he knew he was stunned by it, probably for the only time in his career. Hearns always wanted a rematch, but Marvin obviously did not. When asked how his broken hand was doing a couple of months after this fight, Hearns replied, "Fine, I'm saving it for Marvins Head!"
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  43. @Kreative Production  If he was blind, I'm shaking in my own boots wondering how great Hagler would've been if he could've seen. A blind Hagler kicked Hearns ass. Imagine that!!!! ROFLMFAO
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  44. If it wasn't for Marvin Hagler, John Mugabi would be a top 5 MWC of all time. He had the unfortunate timing of being in the same time period as Hagler. This was a tremendous fight, and Hagler was winning, but not by the margin were used to seeing him win by. Not a great fan of Mugabi, but I have to give him a lot of credit in this fight. He was very tough and competitive until Hagler finally wore him down. Mugabi is very underrated in the history of MW fighters. Neither fighter was ever the same after this fight. Mugabi gave Hagler the hardest fight I've ever seen Marvin in. He gave him a Helluva lot better fight than Hearns and Leonard, even though he lost. He didn't run away from Marvin like Leonard did (Hagler was robbed in their fight, getting a draw), and lasted 3 times longer than Hearns did, while taking it to Hagler as best as anyone could. Marvin was the greatest MWC I ever saw in my near 70 years.......
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  45. Yes. He said he got down to 229 lbs at one point and said he just didn't feel right...
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  46. ​@wtfgebeurdmij2991 I'll agree. Looking back on this, I don't think it was nearly as close as the judges had it. I think Duran got more credit for going the distance than he did for being competitive. In my opinion, he won 3 or 4 rounds, max. I'm a big Duran fan as well. I also think both of these fighters were somewhat too respectful of each other.
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  47. Leonard was a damn good fighter, but was a bit overrated in my opinion. I'll never change my 2 cents that Hearns beat him in their 2nd fight, wouldve beaten him in their first fight if they used today's 12 round limits, and Hagler beat him in their only fight. But that's my opinion. You've gotta give Leonard a lot of credit though. Anyone who could make Duran quit boxing in frustration, has to be a Helluva fighter.....
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  48. He had to have 15-20 stitches in his mouth from that punch! If George Foreman hits you that hard on the tip of the chin, you're lucky you're not dead!! This guy has KOd guys with glancing blows. To hit you that hard where it says good night, man.......If Foreman was Moorer's age, and landed one of those haymakers he threw at that point in his career, it might've killed Moorer. I still can't believe Frazier got up from that uppercut George landed in '73......
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  49. Announcer: "I woulda stopped it a lot sooner." Sure you would've 😏 It's the first round, ferchrissakes!! STOP it much sooner, and the fight wouldn't have even started!!! Mr. Know-it-all......
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  50. Why bring Sanchez into this?????
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