Roberto Durán

Panamanian

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Roberto Durán (born June 16, 1951) is a retired professional boxer from Panama, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. A versatile brawler in the ring, he was nicknamed "Manos de Piedra" (or "Hands of Stone") during his career.

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In 2002, he was chosen by The Ring to be the 5th greatest fighter of the last 80 years.http://boxing.about.com/od/history/a/ring_80_best.htm,Bert Sugar rates him as the 8th greatest fighter of all-time and many consider him the greatest lightweight of all time.He held world titles at four different weights - lightweight (1972?79), welterweight (1980), junior middleweight (1983?84) and middleweight (1989). He was the second boxer to have fought in five different decades.

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He finally retired in January 2002 at age 50 (having previously retired in 1998) following a bad car crash in October 2001, with a professional record of 119 fights, 103 wins with 70 KOs. Up until the second Ray Leonard fight, he was trained by legendary boxing trainer Ray Arcel.

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