Things not thread worthy

[lloyd mayflower]

Apologies* for turning this into the Roberto Duran gushing tribute thread, but by sheer coincidence I stumbled across the documentary "I Am Duran" after watching the De Jesus fight the other night. I think it provides a really good context of scale to the book, which is a bit of a record of events. Watching a documentary where everyone from SRL to Arum and King, Tyson and Lewis right up to fucking Noriega gushing about how huge, and how important Duran was, really provides a backdrop of what he achieved. What it really rammed home for me though is how the fuck did he, when he was so big, so rich, achieved so much... keep going back to the well to reach those levels. The weight loss he had to do, the devastating losses, the emotional carnage of No Mas and the fans turning on him as they did. In the film he is watching that moment and his lip is quivering, he loses his composure. Its obvious that moment haunts him to this day and yet he achieved enough even after it for a borderline ATG career.

A sporting documentary this reminds me of is (black will like this sporting comparison) The Last dance with MJ and the Bulls, because the overriding feeling I had watching that was "how does this guy stay at that level with all the distraction around him". Incredible resilience to block out the noise and go in the ring against young killers.


*Apologies not genuine, i'll do what I want.