Did Roberto Duran really utter, "No Mas"?

[CatWoman]

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[mtowngman]

1. Yep, said it twice and just quit fighting Sugar Ray

[CatWoman]

2. I was googling around and found this -- he said he didn't

http://www.saddoboxing.com/1488-duran-i-never-said-no-mas.html

[mtowngman]

3. Guess it's a matter of whether you believe him or not

Cosell's dead and Duran has reason to want to preserve his image. He was a great fighter, no doubt. Rumor was, at the time, that he had a cocaine problem.

[CatWoman]

4. thanks -- I'm still researching

:hi:

[Awsi Dooger]

5. Hell yes he said it

Not only said it, he waved his gloves in the air signaling no more and walked away from Sugar Ray Leonard and the stunned referee toward his corner and gave up. Leonard started jumping up and down. This was smack in the middle of a round, something like the 8th or 9th round of a scheduled 15.

Duran made the mistake of taking the rematch much too soon, late 1980 after defeating Leonard in Montreal just months earlier in the middle of summer. Leonard tried to prove he was a tough guy in the first fight instead of boxing Duran strategically from the outside.

I'll never forget how I watched the second fight. There was an early Pay Per View network called ONTV in the Los Angeles area. I was early in college and my roommates and I discovered we could switch the channel by one number, monkey with the fine tune, and suddenly view the ONTV picture decently but without sound. Normally we used this for girlie flicks but they also showed the big closed circuit fights. The picture wasn't great that night but we could tell what was going on. When Duran quit I started insisting to my roommates that was what happened, but they didn't believe me for several minutes. There had been no knockdowns or threat of a stoppage.

[CatWoman]

6. Hey, thanks for the info

can't argue with an eye witness!!

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[Zomby Woof]

7. Yep

I was in 7th grade, and remember watching it with my buds. We talked about that all the next day. :-)