""Experience is something you don't get but until just after you need it"
I really resemble that aphorism.
Roberto Duran hit Sugar Ray too hard, and Sugar Ray didn't quit. 'No Mas', he said, and gave it up.
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LoL, yeah, all of us ol'farts with true experience must resemble that aphorism.
Well, I think it was the other way around. It was Duran who said "No Mas" in the second fight and rematch he granted to Leonard after defeating him and taking away his undefeated record in their first encounter.
Roberto "Mano de Piedra" Duran took away the undefeated and crown from Sugar Ray Leonard in their first encounter on June 20, 1980. And it was barely 6 months later on November 25, 1980 that Duran gave Sugar Ray his rematch and lost to him in that famous and remembered "No Mas" fight on the eight round. And then, nine years later on December 7, 1989, was their third and last fight in which Sugar Ray defeated Roberto Duran by unanimous decision after the fight went until the full 12-rounds.
That was indeed a golden age in boxing with excellent quality boxers to remember. Who knows? But, do you believe we still may have the chance to watch one of those great fights from before through a true rematch between some of those giants of the time?
Yes. I apologize for not making that clear.