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- I Am Duran -

When the bell rang in a Roberto Duran fight

you felt something's going to happen.

To be able to be in the ring
119 times over 40 years

it's unparalleled. He did it.

He was absolutely ferocious, he was fearless.
The greatest lightweight in boxing history.

He always pressed the action.
He always brought that charisma, that anger.

Roberto was a great fighter

and he's an interesting character.
Flamboyant, flashy.

It's frightening to see his upbringings
and how he has survived that.

A young man from Panama
who brought the people together.

He was a catalyst for hope, aspiration.
He kept it all alive.

The continents of North America
and South America are connected

by a narrow link of land, Central America.

As explorers and traders learnt more
about Central America

they found that the shortest path
from ocean to ocean

was across the area known today
as the Republic of Panama.

There's the fiery Panamanian Duran

right on Buchanan again.

The United States
built a great Panama Canal

controlling the trade routes
from north to south and east to west.

We should and those negotiations
and tell the General:

We bought it, we paid for it, we built it

and we intend to keep it.

Shipping through the Panama Canal

and the nearly 10,000 American troops
guarding it

were not affected by the unrest.

The canal would be
a prime target for an aggressor

seeking to disrupt peace and security.

The US Senate declared it would
always respect Panamanian sovereignty.

Preparing for the crackdown

the government had ordered the closure
of banks, schools and government offices.

USA!

A tremendous right hand by Duran.

Duran just cannot be beaten or intimidated.

Last night, i ordered
US military forces to Panama.

And we will not be
intimated by the bullying tactics

brutal though they may be,
of the dictator, Noriega.

He found an order in a disorderly universe

when he was a child,
in learning how to fight.

Not just to fight, but howto fight.

Duran was a product of want.

Duran was a product of poverty.

You have a natural fighter here.

You have someone who's driven
by vivid memories of going to bed hungry

and dirt floors
and barrels lit on fire for heat.

He didn't have a family, a proper family.

He was abandoned by his father
and he had to rough it out on the streets.

He had to make a living since very young,
selling newspapers, shining shoes

on the streets and trying to support
his family while being a five year old kid.

So, it was hard for him.

Well, the Canal Zone
is not a colonial possession.

It is not a long term lease.
It is sovereign United States territory.

Where do prize fighters come?

They come from desperate, poor circumstance.

In the sport of boxing

it requires such emotional strength,
determination

the experience of being
in very difficult situations daily.

Pain, living with pain every day.

It's not a stretch to walk into a boxing gym.

Dynamite in both hands
and he's showing it tonight.

There has to be some inner fire

that wants to escape from where he came
and from what he'd seen

and some desire just to...

beat other people up.

Ray Arcel had 20 world champions.

Now, keep in mind this is not 20 belt holders
or a few world champions and belt holders.

These are legitimate true champions,
divisional kings

and Ray Arcel had 20 of them.

He wasn't the typical trainer
that you would think of.

He was more like, as somebody described him,
"He dressed like a banker."

He was very much a gentleman.

He was very elegant
and he cared for his fighters very much.

i always felt that there was no one
could beat him.

i told him one time, i said:

if you fought the heavyweight champion
of the world, you could win.

Roberto was his last fighter

and he was, at that time, close to 80
and he was not wanting to go back into it.

He did because Roberto was so special.

This kind of like a father son relationship
which I think that they had.

Every trainer has a different work ethic.

Every trainer has
a different way of instilling

in their fighter a fighting style.

Ray Arcel called him a natural fighter.

In other words,
they clearly didn't have to teach him much.

All these guys learn a lot
of stuff from the streets and whatever

and they bring it into the ring.

Being a champion is something that
you gotta learn and you gotta learn it

the hard way.

And the most of us,
we had nothing to start out with.

So, we ain't got nothing to lose.

He's gone!
There is no getting up from that.

Ken Buchanan was the favourite.

He was very good, if not a great fighter.

Well, I was a boxer
and Roberto was a fighter.

I knew what I was up against, like.

Roberto, you seem very confident
that this is going to be a knockout.

Now, lets go a step further
and tell me the round.

Duran had
this absolute certainty that he would win.

I remember thinking:
"What does he know that we don't know?"

When the bell rang for round one

it was like Duran's coming out
to end the fight

like you just stole something from him.

He fought Ken Buchanan
as if Ken Buchanan mugged his mother.

Oh, he really hurt him that time!

He just had the guts to keep going

throwing punches at me
and hoping they were going to land.

He had just turned 21 years old
ten days earlier.

He combined his aggression
with being elusive.

And for Buchanan,
to withstand that for round after round

it was a tremendous effort.

Duran was fighting for a nation.

The trouble began when a group
of American high school pupils

flew an American flag
without the Panamanian flag by its side.

And before the Panamanian National Guard

the police and US troops
brought the rioters under control

more than a score were dead,
including four US soldiers.

The Panamanians cannot talk politics.

Cannot talk in the papers,
because we don't have freedom of speech.

Duran came as a symbol of opportunity

to express ourselves
as a country of oppression.

i don't think Buchanan
has ever been in this much trouble.

Duran knew how to pace himself naturally.

He also had a lot of stamina,
he kept on going.

He was just relentless

going after him with his head
as well as his fists

and eventually, he just broke him down.

He hit me low and that was it.

Like, the referee...
He just stopped the fight.

And the winner
and new lightweight champion of the world

21 year old Roberto Duran of Panama.

That moment announced
Duran on the world stage without a doubt.

A fighter arises from their midst

who became one of the all time greats.

Something personal driving him.

I'm not sure if Duran even understood what it
was but there was something that was primal.

He was naturally aggressive,
but he could also box.

Ferocity and savage punching, speed...

People never know him as fast,
but he's very fast.

He has a great anticipation of punching.
He's just an all around marvel in the ring.

"Manos de Piedra" as a tag
is so perfect for him

because it feels like...
His hands feel like freaking bricks.

I've talked to fighters that have fought him

and everyone underestimates him.

They think they can win
until they're in the ring with him.

I actually have been in the ring

in a fashion, with Roberto.

He was in Rocky ll.
He's supposedly Rocky's sparring partner.

At first, I thought,
this will be pretty interesting

because, you know,
I was a few pounds heavier, a little taller

and then I realised the difference
between amateur and consummate pro.

The way he could move
his head just an inch...

It's impossible to hit him.

This man would demolish me in...

Put it this way: if it was a fight, the fight
would be 11 seconds including the count.

Every county is more than just its politics.

Cultural heroes are particularly important
in times of political unrest.

The Panamanian people always
identified themselves with Duran

especially during his fights.
I mean, you know, it was a national fever.

He won, we won.

The demonstration was organised by
Panama's strongman, General Omar Torrijos.

He was remarkable.
He was strong, he was firm

to promote the upward mobility
of the Panamanian people.

The presence of 50,000 Americans
here at the Canal Zone

have always been emotional issues
in Panama

and Torrijos has demanded
Panamanian sovereignty over the zone.

You could call him a military strongman

but that doesn't really capture who he was.
He was a populist.

He was somebody who identified down,
identified with the people.

They have the weapons
and the tanks given by the United States

but we have our dignity
and we are going to fight.

We don't care if we die.

In Washington on September 7th,
President Carter

and the Panamanian president,
General Omar Torrijos

signed two treaties for Washington
to surrender the Canal and Zone

gradually to Panama by the year 2000.

And what is to say that once we have declared
we are willing to give up that canal

that he can t just cancel out
the rest of the treaty?

Nobody cared in those days about "unbeaten".

What they cared about is what Duran did,
which is you fight the best guys out there.

You take your chances, you take risks.

What really shows you
what he has going on inside

is that his greatest fights
were still yet to come.

At the end of the day,
the talent makes the fights

but you've got to have the promoters
in order to plug them, to sell them

to get the tickets out,
to get the crowd interested.

You know, to get everybody's juices flowing.

You know, the rise of the promoters
was very important

because they really brought out boxing.

The promoters are the ones
that make that happen

and if it wasn't for them making it happen,
we wouldn't be able to watch great events.

Definitely worth 20$ to see it.
Ill be there.

Why is it worth that much to see this fight?

Hey, thats once in a century.

Thats gonna be the best fight
i ever seen in my life.

There's been a little bit more
of a razzmatazz

come to the boxing game over the years,
you know?

And it has made non boxing people
boxing fans, you know what I mean?

So they have served their point

and none more so
than Don King and Bob Arum.

...that you will see on Monday night

will be one of the greatest fights
in history.

Arum and King, they were like...

apples and oranges, you know?
Same bag of groceries, but different fruits.

I was a great promoter, you know?

And I say that immodestly,
but I'm just a fact.

You know, not braggadocio,
just a fact of what it is.

They were probably the pioneers

and they were the ones who planted the seed

for boxing to be what it is today.

They were rivals.

Every time they would find a great fight,
they would make it happen.

My relationship with King,
throughout that period, was very adversarial.

I think it benefitted both of us.

He played off me, I played off him.

I would have never known how good I was
if I didn't have lonesome Bob.

Can't tell him what to do neither.
When he gets passionate

and he gets on a tyrant or a rage

he just goes, man.
You know what? It's no holds barred.

You got to be on your P's and Q's
when you're dealing with Bob Arum.

He was a treacherous foe, you know,
and an admirable friend.

Tremendously adept at promoting himself.

A lot of promotional activities were centred
on Don King as the promoter.

He got his idiosyncrasies
and I have mine, you know what I mean?

So, you know, sometimes we can make
the twain meet, you know what I mean?

So we could be
friends today and foes tomorrow.

The rivalry between them

was as important as the one
from the fighters.

So, people knew
when there was a fight involving both

it would be a tremendous event.

Duran is calied,
i mean, if we read the sports pages here

one of the toughest punchers for his weight.

He's certainiy maybe the toughest puncher
youve ever faced.

He's a bra wier, street fighter.

Somebody said its like being hit by a rock
to be hit by this guy.

Scared?

Just a little.

Ray was America's sweetheart.

He had won the Olympic gold medal
in Montreal in 1976.

And Ray had a great smile
and a great personality.

So, he was America's darling.

An absolute master boxer at welterweight,
you know?

The golden boy, if you like.

A celebrated young fighter in America.

Brilliant Ali like smile

but there were still
some questions out there.

Could he stand in with a really tough guy?

Sugar Ray Leonard, for his first fight,
he earned $40,000.

Roberto Duran was 16 years old.

He probably earned a couple of mangoes.

So Duran looked upon Leonard

and felt something like rage
about what Leonard had.

An Olympian who was America's sweetheart

against...

a... a...

a demon.

A destruction machine.
It just made for great theatre.

Especially in America, since the beginning
of time, you could always pitch good vs evil.

People were just beginning to adjust

to the presence of Hispanics
in the United States.

There was a lot of anti Hispanic feeling.

Duran instinctively played
his role as that villain.

During the press conference
to announce the fight

the guy walked into that room.

His eyes, his expressions...

His demeanour was so...
just violent and just nasty.

im not here to be a clown
like this guy over here.

"This is the first time in his life

he s gonna have
to get in the ring and fight.

Today i said a few words.
i looked at him and he was ready to fight.

He took his rings off and everything.
i think he was ready.

When Ray's wife Juanita would go out
of the hotel to go shopping

Duran would come down and follow in a car

and say the vilest things.

It bothered me as a man.

lt bothered me as a guy.
It bothered me as a fighter.

And you don't insult a man's wife, girl...

You don't do that,
and l was gonna get him back.

l was gonna get him back.

With Roberto, it was an act.
It really was an act.

It meant for tremendous closed circuit sales.

It was a blockbuster

because he played his role
of the villain to perfection.

Live from Montreal, Canada.

It's the WBC
World's Welterweight Championship.

Sugar Ray Leonard vs Roberto Duran.

We are in on one of the historic events
in all of history.

More people tonight will see this telecast

than have ever witnessed
a cable telecast before, closed circuit.

Throughout my career,
I never walked to the ring angry.

Except that fight.

And I remember vividly

in Montreal, walking to that ring, I mean...

My mind was thinking toe to toe,
toe to toe with this guy.

Leonard, prior to the fight, said to himself:
"I wanna knock this guy out."

Leonard wanted to stand toe to toe with one
of the most vicious fighters of all time.

I thank him for that,
because it made it a great fight.

I remember the bell going. Bing, first round.

I didn't foresee any problem...

until he hit me.

I've never been hit that hard.

Duran was perpetual motion.
He was tenacious, aggressive and...

Duran had a lot of old school tricks.

There's something called
the "Fitzsimmons shift".

He would throw a dummy right hand

and immediately go into a southpaw position

and then he would drive in a left hook
or a left uppercut to the solar plexus.

That is high tech, sophisticated strategy.

He's playing games with him.

Leonard is... Oh, man,
he's throwing these hydrogen bombs

and he's throwing 'em
30 punches per second

and, boom, it's like he's dancing.

It's like it's ballet and I'm saying:
"Woah, he's making punches miss."

I'm just... "Man! God! Damn!"

They weren't far from each other.

They're real close
and the movements were... "Oh!"

Man, you couldn't believe
how close they were throwing punches.

Right above is Roberto Duran.

And after seeing that fight,
I knew this was what I wanted to do.

Remember Leonard has never lost a fight.

Duran thinks
he has won the fight. i can t believe it.

- The bell! Its over!

He thinks he's won this fight

and then he has to fight the 15th round.

i think he thought so. He thinks he's won.

i think he thought he won.

I think you can be fairly certain that Duran,
at that point in his career

was not hiding his feelings.

Now he's yelling at Benitez.

Most fighters'd just take the win.
"Thank you very much" and get out.

He was like: "No, have it.
That's what it's all about."

That's why I loved him.

He was X rated for television at the time.

At the time, he was giving people the finger,
grabbing his crotch

and I thought that was incredible.

I said: "I don't need this anymore."

I really contemplated retirement.

I said: "I can't take this."
You know, "I can't take this, man."

Duran had given him a beating
like he had never received in his life

and he told me: "Sly, that night, I could
move every one of my teeth back and forth

as if they literally were hanging in my gums.

I thought all my teeth
were going to come out."

That's how hard he hit.

Yeah. I told Sly,
I told a lot of people that...

Most people don't... were not privy to this,
the fact that he hit me like that.

My forward teeth went back
and I went back to the corner

and I asked my cornerman.
I said: "Guys, are my teeth knocked back?"

And they said: "No, Ray, you're fine,
you're fine."

Cos they didn't want to, you know, upset me.

But... I do remember that.

In my opinion, Sugar Ray Leonard
proved his greatness

losing to Duran.

Roberto Duran, on the other hand,
is a different beast.

It's almost like he moved to Sodom
and Gomorrah. He just indulged.

Duran was a fighter of the people.

He related and identified with them

the downtrodden and the underprivileged
and denied.

It was ecstasy.

It was a celebration of all the people.

You know, because the celebration...
it was en masse, it was grandiose.

Everybody was there.

Babies, their mothers, their grandfathers.

Everybody was there because it was
a family reunion, as they would say.

The prodigal son is returning home,
so to speak.

A month long party is what it was.

Now, you can understand
that Duran denies himself when he trains.

So, in other words, he's reliving
his childhood when he trains.

That's a little bit of a trauma for him,
it's a mini trauma if you will.

So after he wins,
sometimes after he lost, he would indulge.

He would enjoy the fruits of his labour.

Duran being Duran,
he did it a little too much

but that's how he was wired.

He was always the guide.

In the difficult years,
they had Roberto Duran

to represent them,
and save them and give them pride.

So he was, and still is,
the most famous Panamanian today.

He can do whatever he wants in Panama.
He can get away with anything.

I got a phone call saying
he was gonna pick me up

with his brother at the airport.
I expected him to be kerbside

but he wasn't. He was right through
at the gate when I got off the plane.

He went: "Ricky, Ricky!"
and he took me through passport control.

Passport control were saying:
"Roberto, Roberto, passport!"

He was like: "No, no, no"
and he took me right through.

I thought "How famous are you
to take me right through passport control?"

Wherever restaurant we went to,
we would never have to pay anything

because he would always say:
"People love me here."

So it was a treat to see him
in his home town, in his country

where people adore him.

He's still like a little boy, you know?

I come into his house
and he's watching cartoons.

You know, he didn't have a childhood.

It's part of what he is today.

It gave him that anger to fight.

Only people who doesn't have places
to live go to El Chorillo.

People without work.

People involved in detailing drugs.

Criminal groups.

That was El Chorillo.

I think it's wine, women and song.
You know, the fighters work so hard

and they live such a Spartan life

that it's so difficult to maintain
that training regimen

and that discipline

and quite often you just wanna
enjoy your youth

and they get a little carried away.

They come from poverty
and they've never had anything

and now they have millions of dollars
and temptation is just around the corner.

Duran is not
the first great athlete or fighter

who got more attracted by the distractions

than the main event.

It's human. Young guys on top of the world.

More money than they could imagine.

Everybody telling them
how wonderful they are.

I remember visiting him at his house.

There must have been 40 people

and they were all laying around the pool

with Dom Perignon champagne,
only the best.

Cooking steaks
and living the high life on Duran's money.

He partied... partied...

Well, he celebrated, I should say,
he celebrated a lot more than I did.

And I wanted to catch him off guard.

After the fight,
I was really emotionally just down.

Devastating.

But I took my wife to Hawaii
to kinda cool out.

And while I was there, the first thing I did
the next morning was run, did road work.

I'm running down the beach

and people saying:
"Hey, Sugar, man, tough fight."

"Hey, Sugar Ray, if you'd have boxed him,
you would have beat him."

I kept hearing that: "If you had boxed him,
you would've beat him."

"If you were boxing..."

And something said: "Bing!"

I called my partner, Mike Trainer.
I said: "Mike, I wanna fight Duran ASAP."

Hello ?

Training would not be spent

devising new strategies and tactics
to defeat Sugar Ray Leonard

who was now going to try
a different strategy of course. No.

It was spent losing weight.

This time around will be
a different story altogether.

Me no like you, Leonard.
Leonard too much talk.

Everybody rush out there, closed circuit,
and get their tickets

because this is gonna be World War IV.

It's hard for an outsider to know
how prepared a fighter is

even when he says, as he usually does,
that he's in the best shape of his life.

Here we go,
the WBC Welterweight Championship.

There's Sugar Ray Leonard
in the black trunks

and Roberto Duran, the champion
in the white trunks, from Panama.

Roberto Duran comes to battle.

He knew that toe to toe,
he would win that fight.

And he's even doing a little dodging now.

A little Ali.

He's taunting Duran.

He didn't realise

the strategy of Sugar Ray Leonard
was almost sleight of hand.

Magic. Illusion.

Duran became incredibly frustrated.
Embarrassed.

Sugar Ray is taunting Roberto Duran like Ali.

Leonard was just too fast, too crafty

and it got into the skin of Duran.

Duran could not abide.

Those eyes that used to stare at someone
and stare you down were now just, like, lost.

The taunting that went on, the antics

were to pour some acid on this machismo.

He had no cure.

He had no response

for what I was doing in that ring.

Sugar Ray is oozing confidence.

Look at that!

Well, he saw what to do and he did it.

Old school fighters would frown upon that.

A lot of old school commentators
back then frowned upon that.

They did not like to see...

Even Howard Cossell did not like to see
Sugar Ray Leonard acting in this manner

against a great fighter like Roberto Duran.

But Sugar Ray Leonard is gonna do
what works for Sugar Ray Leonard.

Those things, those "antics" or whatever
you call them, happen in the ring.

It always happened and you can't...
you don't think about doing that.

You would never think about sticking
your chin out against Roberto Duran, trust me

but it worked then and there, instinctively.

It just naturally happened

because I saw something in his eyes:

I saw that he was not there.

The crowd laughed.

The people began to laugh at Roberto Duran.

Both men can throw lethal bombs.

The machismo at that point said...

"Enough, I'm not going to be humiliated
like this anymore."

Something snapped.

Hey, whats happening?

Duran says no!

i think he's quitting.

What is he saying, Larry?
- He says no.

i don't understand it.
- He's saying no. He quit!

i don't understand this.

i think Duran quit.
- i don't understand it.

Gentlemen, Roberto Duran. ..

This is not like Duran.

threw his hands up
and said: i quit.

i don't understand this.

And he almost got
in a fight with Leonard s brother.

The police are in the ring

and we have
a very, very unpleasant situation in there.

i don't understand this.

The referee
has not declared the fight over yet.

Duran suddeniy said: "i quit".

i don't understand it.
- i don't either.

And then he did it a second time.

i don't understand it.

i don't understand.
- What happened?

He's saying: "i don't want it anymore .

And there's no question,
ladies and gentlemen

that Sugar Ray Leonard has retaken

the World's Welterweight Championship

in round eight when Duran surrendered.

I could not be more stunned

at anything that ever happened
in a prize fight

than seeing Roberto Duran quit.

The crowd was shocked.

Worldwide, it was shocking.

In Spanish, no mas means "no more".

The fight became the No Mas fight.

All you had to say or all that was written
was "no mas".

When he did so many good things,
so many great things in boxing

than that simple phrase.

Some people forget about him being
the greatest lightweight champion of all time

and they simply say: "No mas".

Now, Luis, exactly what happened
in Roberto's words?

He got cramps in his stomach
and his body, upper body.

And then his arms.

And he got weaker,
so thats why he stopped, he quit the bout.

Does this mean the end
of boxing for Roberto?

Yes, Im not fighting anymore.

This is final, permanent retirement?

Definiteiy, Im not fighting anymore.

Leonard scored
with a chopping right that hurt Duran.

When Duran motioned that that was it

i just felt that i beat a man, a legend,
mentaliy

you know, more so than physicaliy.

Ray Leonard was using his skills

and his physical adroitness
and his mental capacity

to be able to do that.

He played the mental gymnastics
as well as the physical.

Duran was right for it.
You know, instead of him readjusting

he stayed on that same mode,
and so since he got frustrated

with that misguided emotionalism
and passion

he then played right into Ray's hands,
but Ray wasn't expecting him to stop.

Sugar Ray had a plan and, you know,
his plan worked.

To frustrate him, not to fight him.

If anybody come to fight Duran,
he'll fight you to the death

but, you know, he gets caught up

in that macho mentality,
"He's not fighting me, he's not the man."

I think for a man who, in his chest
beats the heart of a warrior

the frustration and the embarrassment
and the pressure from the audience

I'm sure he's...

regrets that moment every day.

There is no amount of money.
There is nobody that can do anything

that would help this man
with the destruction of his reputation

or the doubt
that has been cast upon his reputation

and he's going to be out of boxing.

He li have to live that
for the rest of his life.

Its gonna be a real traumatic experience.

Ray, you heard what Duran said.

Will you fight him again, ever?

No, Howard.

It's a painful moment.

It's a painful moment for boxing history
because it did hurt the sport.

It not only hurt Duran,
it really demolished his reputation.

But it also hurt everything about the sport

because people paid good money
to see a great rematch

and what happened
was Duran basically ripped everybody off.

Ive never seen
this young man behave in this manner.

Ive been with him nine years.

He's been through tough fights

and l was absolutely astounded.

i wish i could give you an honest answer,
Howard, of what really happened.

This is my interpretation,
I'm not sure if I'm right

but he was disappointed, deeply disappointed
that he would pull out like that

and probably heartbroken in some ways
because you just don't do that.

It was just one of those...

too human moments...

of weakness.

"But to thine own self one must be true",
as Shakespeare would say.

The man in the mirror knows
that he did that to himself

because of that machismo, macho attitude

and life that he had lived,
you know what I mean?

How do you go back to your people, your fans

who have constructed a part
of their lives around you

who worship you and look up to you?

You become a champion,
you have an entourage of 50 people

carrying your suitcase, your backpack,
giving you water, cleaning your sweat.

You lose your championship,
you lose your money, you have nobody again.

Good evening.
One of Central America s best known

military and political leaders,
General Omar Torrijos

has died in a plane crash in the jungle,
91 miles outside of Panama City.

He was 52.

The Panamanian National Guard

gave their General a military farewell

complete with a motorcycle escort
and cavalry.

Torrijos coffin draped
with the Panamanian flag

was carried up the steps
to the cathedral

on the shoulders of the
members of his national guard.

He was their commander and chief.

Torrijos is a victim of the system.

That he was such an advocate for the people

and next thing you know,
his plane is crashing into a mountain.

An accident, but in my opinion by design

and the world lost a great statesman,
a great scholar, a great fighter.

Torrijos became a symbol of protest

a symbol of a different military

and also identified with the lower class

with the workers, with people like Duran.

Panama never was
the same again after Torrijos.

Of course, his death leads
to the rise of Noriega.

Noriega had a relationship with the CIA

very intimate and very profitable.

He goes on the CIA payroll
and the Pentagon payroll

cooperating with the US on the one hand
and violating US law on the other hand.

He begins a relationship
with the Medillin Cartel, Pablo Escobar

at a time when drug trafficking is starting
to explode coming out of Colombia.

Panama becomes one
of the most important havens

for laundering
millions and millions of dollars

being produced by trafficking cocaine,
marijuana, in and out of the United States.

Panama was where business was being done

and Noriega was facilitating drug operations
in his country.

Noriega has taken control literally
at the point of a gun.

It's absolutely irresponsible for anyone
to think the people of Panama want him

they don't.

See? I tell you.

It's not easy to come back

after being ridiculed.

After being looked down upon.

It's gonna do one of two things to you.
It's gonna make you a better fighter

or it's gonna destroy you.

The first time you find out
how good a fighter you are

and how big a man you are in boxing

when you've gotta drag your backside up
off the floor and come back from adversity

which is what Roberto found himself
having to do after the No Mas fight.

This is the island of Coiba

a tough penal colony
and a sort of Devils Island

where Panama's most menacing criminals
are sent.

Its also become home

to one of the most bizarre training camps
of all time.

Roberto Duran has spent
the last six weeks working here

sweating himself into shape,
surrounding himself

with men much harder,
meaner and tougher than him.

Good right hand by Kirkiand Laing.

A lead right
and that tagged Duran on the chin.

Duran had a go at Laing...

i don't wanna remember Duran this way.

At 31 years of age, it may be all over

for Hands of Stone.

Being a champion is very important.

I would say if I didn't lose in my career

I wouldn't know how great I would have been,
cos it put me in a place

and then it was for me, mentally
and physically, to get myself out of it

and show that I'm a true champion.

Cuevas against the ropes

down for the second time in the round.

Cue vas a beaten fighter.

Duran, a good right hand set it all off

went to the kill.

Roberto Duran back
in the title picture again.

In fact, he will be fighting

Davey Moore
for the Junior Middle weight Championship.

Pandemonium in the ring.

Duran!

Duran!

Duran!

For Duran to consent
to step in the ring with Davey Moore

twenty four years old

one of the best junior middleweights
in the world

so long after Duran's prime

so far out of his natural division

against a fighter who has exceeded
Sugar Ray Leonard's dimensions...

Once again Duran was an underdog.

I'm 17 years old,
I'm in Madison Square Garden

and right there in the front row

and I'm going: "Yeah, yeah yeah!"
And he goes like this.

Yo, he was looking at me!
Well, that was a sign.

That's a sign I'm gonna make it big.

cos he saw me out of all those thousands
of people. I thought it was all about me.

He don't fucking know me!

Davey Moore was up and coming

and Roberto Duran showed me what kind
of skill that he really had at that time.

When he won the fight as an underdog,
which nobody expected him to win

I think he made the people of Panama
very, very proud of him again.

Duran!

On his 32nd birthday last night

challenger Roberto Duran knocked out
24 year old Davey Moore

to win the World Boxing Association,
Junior Middle weight Championship.

There's no doubt that beating Moore

brought Duran back to life
as a prize fighter.

The 80's was really dominated
by the Four Kings.

They all fought each other.

Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler...

lts war.

Tommy Hearns. Roberto Duran.

Those four, they truly represent
perhaps the best times of boxing.

Everybody thought initially

that once Muhammad Ali departed
from the scene

that boxing would suffer
a real terrible blow.

But it was those four fighters

that revitalised the sport during the 80's.

They fought nine times

in various combinations

and every time they fought,
it was a major, major event.

Each fight among them

became a drama.

Oh, not since Cain and Abel
have you seen one like this.

Every fight was an event.

The Four Kings era without Roberto Duran

it wouldn't have been the same.

He was a fighter
who would take on all challengers.

He would move up several weight classes
and challenge the very best.

He was a serious threat to anybody.

And indeed this historic event is

Roberto Duran challenging
Marvelous Marvin Hagier

for the undisputed
Middle weight Championship.

Back in the day, you fought the best.

You had to work yourself in the rankings
to become a champion.

They all wanted to fight each other.
They wanted to fight each other.

They didn't have to,
they didn't make 'em, they wanted it.

This was an era
when dinosaurs ruled the Earth.

These were the real deals, real specimens

and Hagler was perfection
in his particular weight class

which is much bigger than Roberto.

Basically, this guy was trying
to take away my title

and I said: "No. There's no way that you're
going to take away my title," you know.

It was a psych game, like,
going on between him and I.

Two day more, you no more champion.
- OK.

He was at the height of his game
at nine stone, nine.

And all of a sudden, he fights one
of the greatest middleweights of all time.

Up at 11 stone, six.

Every morning, I used to see his ugly face.

My entourage and his entourage

we used to run around the dunes.

We would see each other like 4:30
in the morning and just before the fight

and we go, "Rrrrrr!"

And he goes, "Rrrrrr!"

He says: "Thank you very, very much
to all of you"

and he don't care of nothing

because he knows how to do it
on top of the ring.

i notice you didnt shake his hand.
Has the psyching already started toward that?

Oh, yeah. Roberto's very tricky, very cagey.

Uh, he's got a lot of heart.

One thing that i believe
that i won't have to look for him.

So, its going to be an exciting fight.

You're gonna see a good performance.

I'm sure Duran is going
to give a good account of himself

He's too strong, much too fast for Duran.

He's in better shape.

He's got just as much experience.

The last time Hagier had a fight
was against Vito Antofuermo five years ago.

He hasn't had a fight since
and Durans gonna give him a fight

cos Duran s gonna hit him downstairs,
Durans gonna hit him upstairs.

And its gonna be all over
within a short time.

Duran!

To do a 15 round fight in that heat,
outdoors...

They weren't in the casinos now,
and the air conditioning.

That was absolutely unbelievable.

The way that I look at that fight, I mean

it was two great champions going in,
teaching each other

what kind of skills that they had.

Middle weight Championship of the world.

Hagier, of course, familiar to most people

that left handed style.

Remember, he will switch to righty
at various times throughout this fight.

For the first three rounds,
what he would do was

every time that I would throw a right hand

he would counter punch.

And I says: "Hmm" for three rounds
and I'm asking my trainer

"How the hell does this guy
keep catching me?"

"He's a smart warrior
and he's timing your punch."

So, what we had to do was
we had to go to school on him

show him who he's in there with,
switch up on him

and every time that he would do
that right hand...

Boom, I hit him with a body shot

and I hear him go, "Ugh!"

He can't believe
that he's getting hit this much

because nobody hits Roberto Duran
that much.

"You hit me, do you know who I am?"

I say: "Yeah,
and you gonna get some more, too.

C'mon!"

Big left hand from Hagier
on the chin of Duran but Duran is OK.

The fight was toe to toe, nonstop.

There was barely a foot, two foot
between them the whole fight

because Roberto Duran fought that way
and Marvin fought that way.

It was always going to be
a close quarter fight

so that for a 15 round fight...

Fantastic, fantastic stuff.

Here in this 15th round.

Ripping, body and head shots
to the head of Roberto Duran.

I give him a lot of credit, man.

He was so experienced that he knew
how to keep bouncing off the rope

and bobbing and weaving
and avoiding some of the punches.

Two warriors,
two champions going the full 15 rounds.

I tell you, in about 30 more
seconds in the 15th round

I would have knocked Roberto Duran out.

I had him. I had him.

Duran stole the drama of the show

simply by going 15 rounds
with Marvin Hagler.

Having a fighter like Roberto Duran,
that brings out the best in you

and that's what he did for me.

He pushed him all the way,
do you know what I mean?

Stood there and had it out with him,
it was...

From someone who was a nine stone,
nine, a lightweight fighter

to fight out with one of the strongest
and best middleweights of all time.

I think, you know, it ended in his defeat

but it's again, another one of them,
bit by bit

each fight and each fight he was having

he was getting the respect back
from the Panamanian people.

To me, it isn't always about the victories

cos Duran, every fight had just...
elements of drama

that other fighters just don't have.

Every one is almost like a movie in itself.

If you look at the pattern of Duran's career

it's pretty rare, especially after 1979

where he could be inspired
for a fight twice in a row.

To fight Hearns on the heels of Hagler,
that's insanity.

No longer will he be called
the Motor City Cobra.

He has returned as Thomas The Hitman.

He had that real devil, evil in his eye,
you know?

He, you know...
Like he wanted to hurt his opponents.

Duran predicted

he's going to knock Tommy Hearns out
in one round.

Thomas Hearns said: "I'm going to knock
Roberto Duran out in two rounds."

It was apparent in that fight

that Hearns had no respect for Duran.

- Referee, Carlos Padilla.

He was training in Bahamas.

I was very young, I was a kid.

And they flew me over with my mum

and I saw my father
trying to make the weight.

He looked like a freaking walking dead,
you know.

Sucking on a lemon.

You know, he's usually the crazy guy
who loves his kid

and he's always hugging us
and, you know, playing with us.

And he's like: "Fula, just take the kids.
I can't deal with them right now."

Big man and the little man
thus far. Right hand!

Down goes Duran.

Duran is on queer street.

He doesnt know where he is.

He's on queer street and he's going to go.

Noriega was provoking the military,
the US military.

Drugs are menacing our society.

Theyre threatening our values
and undercutting our institutions.

The y re killing our children.

This...

This is crack cocaine.

i think we are moving from crisis to disaster

and now we are passing disaster
and moving towards catastrophe.

Oh, he's out!

He was out before he hit the canvas.

When that punch landed, it was a "pop".

You could hear it from ringside
through the ropes into the microphone.

That was definitely the hardest punch
Duran ever got hit with.

This fight is over.

When i have the official time from the...

He doesn't know where he is.

He has not known
where he is since the first...

Duran was no longer a elite level fighter.

He's like: "I can still get in the ring
and beat everybody up and..."

You know...

It was sort of a pressure for us too

because everybody coming up to us
and like: "Your father should retire."

So it was sort of a pressure
for not only him but for everybody.

He represented never giving up.

"If I can do this, you can do it as well."
He was that type of fighter.

i call on General Noriega
to respect the voice of the people.

You know, Al, there's a saying in boxing:

A fighter can look like
he s in great condition.

All of a sudden he walks up the stairs

the bell rings,
and he doesn't have it anymore.

Thats happened to Roberto Duran,
like, three times.

We all wrote him off and all of a sudden
the guy comes back again.

This is going to be some test
for a 37 years old guy

against a tough guy like lran Barkley.

He has the heart of a champion, of a warrior,
and no matter if you're 100 years old or not

you're still going to want to fight

because it's in you.

It's your soul. It's what drives you.

It's the Loneliest of sports

but in a way, that makes it, um... better.

It makes it bigger.

They go out, they are alone.

There can be whole countries

making you... somebody special.

And so the stage is set.

There's not a seat to be had.

And everybody pumped up to see that man,
Roberto Duran, trying to win his fourth titie

and to see if Iran The Blade Barkley...

Iran Barkley was a rough, tough guy
who was from the streets of the Bronx.

He was member of a street gang.

He was 28 years old.

He was in perfect condition.

He was a huge middleweight.

I was in school...

and I remember my teachers telling me:

"Don't let your father do this fight,"
you know, "he's going to get killed."

You know, I saw Iran Barkley
who was like ten feet tall.

I'm like: "Damn, this guy's going
to kill my father."

These guys is the past.
I gotta be the present.

Got a spirit inside of me
that I can take myself back

to where I came from and what I've done.

I'm gonna make you respect me.

A promoter would say to a fighter

"If you want to fight,
your name power is still big enough

to put this fight on TV

to where you get a pay day."

And that's what keeps fighters going on
long after they should retire.

Here's that right hand again.

Being very, very proud of your people
like Roberto was

makes you not want to let them down.

You can't tell me he didn't think
of that one fight against Sugar Ray Leonard

and when he quit,
every time he stepped in a ring.

He thought to himself:
"I can't quit in this one."

You can look into a man's eyes,
you can see his soul.

You don't scare me.

Having the guts and having the desire

to go beyond physical limits.

When you do that, you're a fighter.

They are both landing big shots.

Who will go? Duran is now stunned.

Panama City.

American police called on Army help
against rioting Panamanians.

You know, I hit him with a shot
that spun him around.

I don't even know how he stood up from that.

When i heard this stuff
about Noriega and invading

that is pure fabrication and a lie.

Duran doing a wonderful job of tying him up

Something held him up that day
that wouldn't let him fall.

So it looks like Roberto Duran
got his third wind. Where he got it from...

You know, it held him up somehow.

He said he was in good shape.

Roberto Durans for real in this bout.

And he just went for it.

Duran!

Last night, i ordered
US military forces to Panama.

Again the right by...
Barkiey's in trouble. He's down!

This has been extraordinary.

That tells you who's champion.

The victory over Iran Barkley
was Duran's last act of defiance.

I mean, with that victory,
he gave the finger to history.

He gave the finger to Father Time.

He gave the finger to the laws of physics.

And now that we're friends,
I walk over to him, I say:

"Hey, Roberto, how you doing, man?"
I said: "Let me ask you a question.

Did you hate me that much?

Did you really hate me that much?"

And he looked at me.

He took a deep breath.

He said: "No, Ray, that was all...
It was all made up."

There wasn't this mean spirit about him

uh, when you got to know him.

I mean, he was just a fun loving guy
that you wanted to be around.

There was a kind of, um... charming

kind of boyishness to him, the humility.

Tremendous heart, yes...

A caring individual and just...

Man, as I said, I'm so happy
that he was... part of my lifetime.

If you look at Roberto Duran, you look
at the heights and the depths of his career.

You even look at No Mas.

Ask yourself who in their lives
has not had a "no mas" moment?

- I Am Duran -