10 greatest boxers of all time

#6 Roberto Duran

Lightweight, welterweight, junior middleweight, middleweight.

career: 1968-2001 Record: 103-16 (70 KOs)

Roberto Duran is best-known for holding five different championship titles in his illustrious career. These include the lightweight, welterweight, junior middleweight, and middleweight titles. Nicknamed Manos de Piedra, or Hands of Stone, was an imperious world lightweight champion between 1972 and 1979. He stopped 11 of 12 contenders in defending the lightweight title.

The destructive fighter moved up to welterweight to become world champion in 1980, and was world light middleweight champion 1983-84. Moved up to middleweight and won a championship title at the weight in 1989. He won 103 fights throughout his career and knocked out 70 fighters along the way. Duran was unstoppable in the ring where he dominated the lightweight division for seven years.

Known as a trash-talking aggressive brawler, Roberto Duran fought during one of the strongest boxing era’s of all time and fought legends like Hagler, Hearns and Leonard but unlike those great fighters he managed over 100 professional victories in a career spanning over five decades to go down in history as one of the best fighters of all time.

Memorable bout: On June 20, 1980, Roberto Duran won the WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard with a 15th round decision.