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Roberto Carlos Durán Samaniego [2] (born June 16, 1951) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. He held world championships in four weight classes: Lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight. Duran also reigned as the undisputed and lineal lightweight champion and the lineal welterweight ...
Later, Duran joins a boxing club with Nestor "Plomo" Quiñones as his coach. As he reaches 20, an American legendary boxing trainer Ray Arcel , who nearly lost his life after being attacked by an assailant sent by the mobster, Frankie Carbo in 1953 in New York City and is now living with his wife Stephanie, notices Roberto's raw talent and ...
The marriage was her second. Ray and Hazel adopted a daughter Adele Arcel Bloch, who died on February 8, 1990. His second wife and widow was Stephanie Arcel. Stephanie Arcel died on August 8, 2014. [5] Actor Robert De Niro portrayed Arcel in the 2016 film Hands of Stone, about Roberto Durán, with actress Ellen Barkin portraying his wife ...
Ray Charles Leonard (born May 17, 1956), best known as Sugar Ray Leonard, is an American former professional boxer, motivational speaker, and actor.Often regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time, he competed professionally between 1977 and 1997, winning world titles in five weight classes; the lineal championship in three weight classes; [3] as well as the undisputed welterweight ...
Boxing great Roberto Durán received a pacemaker on Monday after he was hospitalized on the weekend, his family said. “The Durán family is pleased to inform that thanks to God the surgery in ...
English: Title: Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran Creator(s): Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer Date Created/Published: 1980. Medium: 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35mm (slide format) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-gtfy-02306 (digital file from original) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
Boxing great Roberto Duran was receiving medical care for a heart problem, the family of the 72-year-old Panamanian said Saturday. Duran, who was a champion in four different weight classes ...
Leonard, Duran posing with oversized boxing gloves before June 20, 1980 fight. On May 9, 1980, the highly anticipated fight between the undefeated reigning WBC champion "Sugar" Ray Leonard and former undisputed lightweight champion and the-then number-one ranked welterweight contender Roberto Durán was announced.