Roberto Duran vs Sugar Ray Leonard 2 | "No Mas Fight" (Full Fight Highlights)

Ray Leonard 146 lbs beat Roberto Duran 146 lbs by TKO at 2:44 in round 8 of 15 Date: 1980-11-25 Location: Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA WBC Welterweight Championship (1st defense by Duran). William Nack of Sports Illustrated reported: Leonard seized the issue in the first round and never yielded it. Near mid-round, after the two men had cautiously felt one another out, Duran lunged into Leonard and bulled him to the ropes, just as he had done so effectively last June. But now Leonard spun away and landed a right hand . . . The pace quickened in the second round, and Leonard's effectiveness became more pronounced. He banged two rights to Duran's head, snapping it back, and then he circled and jabbed. Duran seemed puzzled . . . While Duran scored well in the third and fifth rounds—he won the third on all three cards, the fifth on two—he was never able to take over the fight as he had in June. He stalked his man, but Leonard repeatedly escaped, feinting to keep Duran off balance, walking away, dancing. Leonard had made a weapon of his jab, which he had not done in Montreal, and as the fight went on, he was countering well with his hook when Duran tried to move inside ... Neither man was ever hurt, but Leonard could sense Duran's increasing frustration as the rounds went by. . . . Late in the seventh, Leonard threw the most memorable punch of the night. Winding up his right hand, as if to throw a bolo, he suddenly snapped out a left jab that caught Duran flush on the face . . . Having made a fool of him, Leonard continued taunting Duran mercilessly. He stuck out his chin, inviting Duran to hit him. Duran hesitated. Leonard kept it up, moving, stopping, mugging. Leonard scored again with a hook and two right hands. At the bell, Duran seemed to smile as he walked back to his corner. Three minutes later the fight was over. Following Duran's surrender, there was great confusion. A report went around ringside that Duran had not quit but had merely misunderstood the referee about something. Minutes after the fight, WBC president Jose Sulaiman said, "Roberto told me that when he threw a right hand in that round, something happened to his shoulder." Duran, however, told the media he quit because of stomach cramps. "I ate too much. I was eating hot food and drinking cold juice. That's what caused the cramps. That's why I quit the fight," Duran said in an interview with journalist Bill Brubaker, which appeared in the June 1981 issue of International Boxing. "I actually wanted to stop the fight in the fifth round because my whole body was feeling paralyzed because I had these stomach cramps. . . . I felt slow and tired and I wasn't sweating. And I wasn't breathing enough. In the eighth round, I felt I could have feinted if I continued." Fabio Matos, who was a ringside guest of Duran's at the fight, told Bill Brubaker: "Maybe I shouldn't say this because Roberto is my friend, but after the fight, Duran told me in his hotel room that the story about the cramps was false . . . He said he had to tell that story because he knows people want an explanation." When asked why Duran quit, Matos said, "Roberto couldn't do anything with Leonard . . . Duran was being humiliated. Aware that he was being humiliated, he quit."