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Roberto Duran faces Carlos Palominio in a Welterweight fight on HBO Boxing from Madison Square Garden in NYC
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00:00Big crowd here at the Garden, a tremendous crowd.
00:09That man, fellas, is an athlete, an entertainer, a prize fighter that I think all of us will remember as long as we watch this sport.
00:19I just think he is an incredible, outstanding prize fighter.
00:25I think he's established, too, that he's got the crowd with him by that rousing cheer they gave him as he entered the ring.
00:31In comes Palomino, Carlos Palomino, former welterweight champion of the world.
00:35Palomino.
00:35They like him, too.
00:39He looks a little bigger than Roberto.
00:42You know, his fist is two and a half inches larger than Durant's.
00:49Palomino.
00:50They call Durant's stone hands.
00:52And Palomino's fists are actually two and a half inches larger, which gives you an example of the fact that Palomino is 5'9", Durant is 5'7", 200 short.
01:03And he has a three and a half inch advantage in the reach.
01:07Sometimes the style of the fighter determines whether that's important or not.
01:11We'll have to see.
01:12But he's a bigger boned individual.
01:14Carlos is fighting a smaller man tonight, but he's fighting probably bound for bound the roughest fighter in the ring.
01:23Now, let's go up to Bill Merriman.
01:26Ladies and gentlemen, promoter Don King proudly presents a 10-round dream match.
01:36Between two scintillating, sizzling, and sensational welterweights, this match is sanctioned by the World Boxing Council,
01:48Jose Suleiman, President.
01:51Introducing the judges, Harold Letterman, and Tony Castellano, referee Arthur McCante.
02:07Introducing in the blue corner from Huntington Beach, California, wearing white trunks with green stripes,
02:22and weighing 145 and three-quarters pounds, former world welterweight champion, Carlos Palomino.
02:40Palomino.
02:41Palomino.
02:50And heads up on it, and the red corner hails from La Ciudad de Panamá en la Nación Hermosa de Panamá.
03:04Palomino.
03:10Wearing black trunks, yellow stripes, and weighing 145 and one-quarter pounds,
03:22former lightweight champion of the world
03:26Las Manos de Piedra
03:30Roberto Duran
03:33Duran
03:35Pele Arran
03:39for the next round
03:42Well, I'll tell you, that was a world championship introduction, fellas.
03:49I never heard anything like it.
03:51Johnny Addy's rolling over in his grave.
03:53Jimmy Lennon must be unhappy.
03:56Well, I think we're in for a very exciting evening, boys.
04:00What we have to watch here,
04:02Palomino has traditionally been a slow starter.
04:05He has acknowledged himself that he has to get off
04:08much faster than he normally has.
04:12They're both thinking the same thing.
04:14And he generally has been hit early in the fight.
04:18Scoring by the referee and two judges
04:21has to fail for round one.
04:25Duran in the dark trunk, Palomino in the white.
04:28The scoring is on the 10-point must system,
04:31which is a departure here in New York State,
04:34which usually goes on the round system.
04:36But this fight and the heavyweight championship fight
04:39are being fought under the aides of the World Boxing Council,
04:43and they are using their rules.
04:45The mandatory eight counters in effect,
04:47but the three-knockdown rule has been waived.
04:52Palomino's shaken a little bit by that left hand of Duran.
04:56Duran pressing the action,
04:58looking as always after a quick knockout.
05:00Both young men can fire hard, short punches.
05:06They don't need a lot of punching room.
05:08outside of that one flurry by Duran,
05:23it's been a rather quiet round.
05:24Duran looking overconfident, by the way.
05:34Both of them are savage body punches,
05:37and Palomino particularly likes to go to the body early in the fight.
05:41And Duran is leaving the body wide open at the moment.
05:43He is protecting the chin,
05:48as is Palomino,
05:49both keeping the gloves up fairly high.
05:53Palomino nimble afoot.
05:58Duran has him cornered, and that's dangerous.
06:02Palomino takes the play away on the inside.
06:06Palomino opens up.
06:10Right now, this is a test of their strength in there.
06:14Yeah, they're just touching each other,
06:16feeling each other.
06:18Sampling.
06:22They'll explode soon.
06:26Big punch by Duran,
06:28but Palomino took it well.
06:33Palomino seems a little more calculating of the two here in round one,
06:37with less than a minute to go.
06:38He had to be shaken by those blows.
06:53Palomino, even after taking him,
06:55actually forces Duran across the ring.
06:57Big punches by the ex-rightweight champion.
07:09Twelve seconds to go in the round.
07:14Now it's becoming a big round for Palomino,
07:16Roberto Duran.
07:23Well, now let's join our host,
07:24Glenn Burrano.
07:29Don, you have to be impressed with this man,
07:31Roberto Duran,
07:32moving up from the lightweights to the welterweights,
07:34acquitting himself not only quite well,
07:36but easily winning the round over Carlos Palomino.
07:39Give round one to Roberto Duran.
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08:07And right here,
08:07you're seeing dream fight.
08:09Round number one goes to Duran.
08:10Let's go back to Don Dunphy,
08:12your ringside.
08:13All right, Len.
08:14Duran is 28 years old.
08:16He's 5'7".
08:17Palomino is 29.
08:18He's 5'9".
08:21Former welterweight champion,
08:23Palomino.
08:23Former lightweight champion,
08:25Duran.
08:25Round two.
08:27The first round went about as we expected.
08:30Palomino did start slowly.
08:31Duran did try to get to him.
08:35Duran is trying to end it quickly.
08:37And the test is,
08:38will he get discouraged
08:40if Palomino takes his best shot
08:43as he did in round one?
08:46Palomino won't quit.
08:49One thing that should be pointed out
08:51is that Duran is a very resourceful fighter now.
08:54He's not the wild kid that he was
08:56five and six years ago.
08:59You're absolutely right there.
09:00He doesn't expose his chin needlessly.
09:02No, and he's doing a lot of feinting in this fight.
09:05A little wild over the head.
09:07Carlos anticipated.
09:10His hands look quicker, Neil.
09:12Yep.
09:12Palomino really hasn't opened up
09:21because he has not had a chance.
09:24Duran has taken the play away from him all the way.
09:27He has Palomino countering.
09:33He's been beating Palomino to the punch
09:35and then Palomino has been looking to counter inside,
09:38tie him up.
09:38Half of the round is gone and Arthur McKinney,
09:51one of our better officials, gets him apart.
09:58Carlos doesn't know quite what to do with him yet.
10:00Duran is dominating the fight so far.
10:07We're in round two.
10:08Scheduled for ten.
10:10Palomino holding Duran against the rope
10:25with honors about even on the inside.
10:31Now is Duran taking the play away again.
10:37Palomino lets go to unleash a barrage,
10:40but Duran beat him to the punch
10:42and beats him again
10:43with left hooks.
10:49Question is, will Duran punch himself out?
10:54He punches Carlos Palomino out.
10:5625 seconds left to go in the round.
10:59A big round for Duran.
11:02Palomino stays on top
11:03but takes the battering
11:05as the referee gets him apart.
11:11Palomino's in trouble.
11:13He's holding on
11:16but he can't tie up Duran for too long.
11:20The ball.
11:24Sure that, a big round for Roberto Duran.
11:27You know, that exchange on the ropes
11:29may have been very significant.
11:31Palomino had Duran with his back to the ropes
11:34and Duran was dominating Palomino.
11:37Only two men in the history of boxing
11:39have been lightweight champions
11:40and have gone on to be well-await champions.
11:42Barney Ross and Henry Armstrong.
11:45And the way Duran looks now,
11:47he is capable of handling someone of this size.
11:56Somebody's hands being packed.
11:57Oh, Larry Holmes.
11:59Look at that record.
12:0030 fights, 30 wins, 21 knockouts.
12:03The WBC heavyweight champion of the world,
12:06Larry Holmes in his dressing room.
12:08Waiting for his fight with Mike Weaver.
12:13I think Carlos is going to come back in this round.
12:18Well, he's better.
12:20Another round or two like that.
12:22He'll have too far to come back.
12:23It's time for him.
12:24The right cheekbone of Palomino seems a little bit tough.
12:35Palomino has just not been able to mount an attack
12:38and he is such a good fighter.
12:41Duran has not let him.
12:49Palomino trying to keep him off with the jab.
12:52Not succeeding.
12:54Duran bobbing and waving.
12:56That left hook.
12:57That left hook of Duran has landed again and again.
13:01Palomino seems to have no defense for it.
13:03Now he's a boss for the right as well.
13:07He does carry his gloves a little low at times.
13:10He drops him when he punches Palomino
13:12and that's when he gets nailed.
13:16Roberto seems to have a little too much speed so far for Carlos.
13:23Duran is smiling.
13:24He's actually laughing at Palomino.
13:27The young man loves to fight.
13:29Palomino decided to trade with him
13:38for just a moment.
13:40That's all.
13:44As you see, Palomino takes a good punch.
13:52This is a fight between a great, great small man
13:56against a good, bigger man
13:57and right now the great, great small man
13:59is dominating the bigger man.
14:05Straight Duran enjoys the combat.
14:09He's a true professional.
14:13Again beating Palomino to the punch.
14:17Those punches come so fast.
14:19Palomino has the glove up
14:20but he can't block them.
14:21Unless Palomino can change the course of this fight
14:31he most certainly will be knocked out.
14:37And he's never been knocked out.
14:39As it's early, it's only round three.
14:51As we always say, anything can happen.
14:53That's a long, let me tell you.
15:02One slide is twice.
15:03But Palomino comes back.
15:04Perfect punch by Carlos Palomino.
15:06His best punch so far.
15:07So far.
15:09Let's see how Duran reacts to that punch.
15:12Just smiles.
15:13Just smiling.
15:13That was a perfect counter by Palomino.
15:24Palomino has been looking to size up Duran,
15:27gauge his speed, gauge the geometry of the ring.
15:30Perhaps for the first time in those last 15 or 20 seconds
15:33he had Palomino, he had Duran measured
15:35where he's been trying to counter over him and he did.
15:38But he's behind by three rounds now.
15:40That means he's got to win
15:42six of the next seven rounds to win the fight.
15:45So he doesn't have time to do any measuring anymore.
15:48Let's take a look at a rerun.
15:52In the corner.
15:54Body punch by Duran after he mixes the left hook.
15:58It was a good right hand punch by Carlos
16:00but he needs much more of that.
16:03Much, much more and with both hands.
16:04And many more.
16:05And many more.
16:06And many more.
16:07There's Palomino.
16:09He's smiling.
16:11Both young men smiling.
16:13Former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson.
16:16Floyd Patterson is a member of the Boxing Commission
16:19here in New York.
16:22Round four.
16:24Duran in the dog trunk.
16:25Palomino in the white.
16:28It's scheduled for ten rounds.
16:30Arthur McCanty nimbly moving around as the referee.
16:33Okay.
16:37Duran with those quick hands again right by the guard.
16:49Palomino looks as though he's going to try to do something now.
16:53Straight right hand partially blocked.
16:55Both young men have good dabs.
17:05They keep their heads moving to get away from those dabs.
17:08I think what you're seeing here now in Palomino is that he really is a thoroughbred.
17:15He's taken some good wax against a great fighter.
17:17He's now walking at him.
17:18He's still trying to analyze and still trying to get to him.
17:28Palomino doing some good defensive work now.
17:30And while he might.
17:31He's hitting in combinations too, which will help his fight.
17:41Duran is not quite as accurate as he was in the first three rounds.
17:49But Duran is still making the fight.
17:53Palomino is not running away by any man.
17:56Duran has gone to smiling again.
18:10Quick off cook that time.
18:13Palomino seems surprised.
18:15Short coming but couldn't get out.
18:17You may not notice it, but Palomino is scoring on the inside.
18:28Punches are not as spectacular, but they are there.
18:39This is a real, real good fight.
18:47Palomino looks none the worse for wear right now.
18:51Still got that good jab.
18:53He's not been able to mount a good combination, however.
18:56Good counterpunch by Palomino.
19:02One thing he's managed to do, Don, Duran, is frustrate Palomino's body attack.
19:07Palomino generally wears his opponents down with a vicious body attack in the early round.
19:12He really hasn't been very effective to the body.
19:14He's going with a vicious left hook while you were talking, Larry.
19:18Palomino did.
19:19Now he's trying to go to the body.
19:21There's the balance.
19:21There he goes.
19:23First good round.
19:26Well, I've got it four for four for Duran so far, Larry.
19:30So do I, Don.
19:31Even though I think the last round was the closest of the four.
19:34What do you think, Ryan?
19:35Well, I saw the last round as a tie.
19:37Did you?
19:38Yeah, a draw.
19:39You're very charitable.
19:40I'm very charitable.
19:41Why not?
19:42I'm not scoring.
19:44I'm unofficial.
19:50Sorry.
19:52I'm unofficial.
19:54That young lady is scoring.
19:56You know, Duran, although he's two years younger than Palomino, actually has been fighting five years longer.
20:02Here's Larry Holmes in his dressing room.
20:05He's starting to get warmed up.
20:06His body is oiled over, and he's working up a little bit of a sweat.
20:10That's his manager, Richie Giacchetti, who brought him along and got him into the championship.
20:17Well, round five.
20:23The halfway mark is coming up.
20:27Ray Arcel talking to Roberto Duran.
20:31Ray, the veteran trainer, around years and years.
20:34Maybe 50 of them.
20:35Palomino reaching Duran with that jab now.
20:41Something he couldn't do earlier.
20:47Now it's shot by Roberto.
20:49This is what I thought would happen right now.
20:59Over in Duran's corner, and it's very much Duran on the scoring end.
21:04And they've got Palomino a little gun-shy again.
21:10Notice how Duran keeps that right hand around his ears.
21:14He's protecting himself against the left hook, and he's got it in perfect punching position as well.
21:19He's got a great style.
21:26Right from the very beginning, Duran kept Palomino from mounting any kind of a sustained attack.
21:34A minute to go in the round.
21:38That was a terrific good countering.
21:41Left hand to the right by Duran.
21:43Palomino countered well.
21:45Both missed.
21:55There's been no knockdowns in the fight.
22:01Big shot.
22:02That was his best shot.
22:04I don't know how hard Palomino is, but he didn't stagger.
22:07He took it well, and he's fighting back.
22:22That was a good box of Roberto Duran.
22:25Duran dodged the left.
22:27A minute to go in round five.
22:28Fortunately for Palomino, he's riding some of those punches that hit him in the head.
22:44Now the crowd is now ordering Duran to knock his opponent out.
22:49The crowd wants a knockout now.
22:51I wonder if Palomino regrets taking the fight.
23:02Good left hand by Palomino.
23:17Good right hand.
23:18All it does is make Roberto smile.
23:23A good rally by Palomino.
23:25There's first.
23:28There's the bell.
23:31And now let's join our host, Len Berman.
23:33With Larry Holmes in his locker room, watching the fight on television.
23:38What's your reaction to Duran?
23:40I hope he doesn't move up to the heavyweight division.
23:54We're going to come back later in this fight to talk to you about Mike Weaver.
24:09Back to Rinks.
24:10Mike Weaver.
24:16Mike getting ready in his dressing room.
24:19Manager Don Manuel.
24:21Very carefully taping the hand.
24:24Actually, that's Ray Barnes.
24:25An old friend of mine wrapping his hands.
24:27A terrific fighter.
24:28Once beat Sugar Ray Robinson.
24:30But didn't get the decision.
24:31If the fight is going to turn, if the tide is going to turn at all, it will have to right
24:36in this round.
24:39Turned, all right.
24:41A vicious right hand punch to the jaw.
24:43The mandatory eight count told by touchdown timekeeper Billy Graham.
24:48We have two minutes and 37 seconds left in the round.
24:54A vicious right hand shot to the jaw.
24:57That's Palomino to the canvas.
24:59And Carlos has never been knocked out, by the way.
25:02A record that could go by the boards tonight.
25:06I think Palomino had it in his mind to turn the tide.
25:08He whooped right into that right hand.
25:15This is the second time Carlos has ever been down.
25:17Durant fighting hard inside, trying for the knockout.
25:22He's got plenty of time in the round.
25:24Over two minutes.
25:26Palomino trying to ride out the storm.
25:29As Arthur McCandy gets him apart.
25:31He's cut on the ear, Carlos says.
25:33Blood pouring out behind Palomino's left ear.
25:36We're now getting pounded with that right hand.
25:40I haven't seen the cut yet.
25:42It's on Palomino's.
25:42It's in the ear.
25:43Behind his ear.
25:45Either behind or in the ear.
25:47I can't show you.
25:50He's not bothering his attack, any.
25:55Palomino takes a terrific punch.
25:58I don't know any other welterweight who could stand up under those punches by Durant.
26:02I'll tell you, Palomino has a lion's heart.
26:13More than a minute he's going around.
26:14It was his chin to take those kinds of punches.
26:16That's right.
26:17He's hurt.
26:17More than a minute he's going around.
26:20There's he coming back.
26:21Palomino comes back, surprisingly.
26:23With some of his best shots of the night.
26:25Never count a Mexican fighter out.
26:28Sometimes you have to hit him real hard just to wake him up.
26:30Well, he got hit real hard, Ryan.
26:34Yeah.
26:36Still fighting.
26:37He has taken the play away from Durant.
26:39That's what it takes.
26:39Palomino is up.
26:40Because he's been hit.
26:41I think he should have stayed in close.
26:46He was doing better.
26:53It has been a long round of Palomino, who was down in the opening second.
27:00Somehow it managed to survive.
27:06Seems to me that Palomino may have a very slight touch somewhere around the right eye.
27:11He does it beginning to show.
27:12I don't think it's dangerous at this point.
27:14But around the right eye is a touch.
27:18Only 10 seconds to go on the round.
27:22Remember a man.
27:24Lord Adder near Durant.
27:26Oh!
27:26Palomino, Palomino, at the bell.
27:29All of a sudden.
27:34Well, Durant got a little careless there.
27:36And he caught a three-punch combination.
27:38Larry Holmes in his dressing room, observing Larry Holmes on the screen.
27:45There it is.
27:46Let's take a look at the end of that round.
27:48There's a knockdown first.
27:50That's right in the beginning.
27:51A left followed by a straight right in the opening seconds of the round.
27:54Did you notice that Durant Handlers had not even gotten out of the ring yet when that landed?
28:01Ray Arzell was still in there.
28:03He had a good shot of it.
28:04This is a fight between a street fighter who's been fighting since he's seven years old,
28:09although he's two years younger than Palomino Durant.
28:12He's actually had five years more of experience.
28:15Palomino was a semi-professional baseball player and a college student.
28:19He didn't take up boxing until he was 21.
28:21He's got Jackie McCoy giving him smelling salts in the corner.
28:29Smelling salts.
28:32Round seven.
28:36Palomino, he's so far behind on points.
28:40He's about to score it on the ten-point must-missive.
28:42Ten points to the winner of a round, nine or less to the loser.
28:45I've started to say before, if a man has floored at or near the ringing of the bell ending a round,
28:52he must have rise by the count of ten, even though the bell is counted or be counted out.
28:57Palomino's left eye is beginning to swell.
29:01It's a bad sign.
29:03He's been catching too many of those right hands.
29:08Raising punches.
29:09Each looking for an opening here.
29:20See how they eye each other?
29:25Concentration.
29:27Every show off, Palomino comes battling back.
29:30A gutsy fighter.
29:36Good left hook.
29:37Makes Durant smile.
29:40Makes him laugh.
29:53We're in the neutral corner, right?
29:56Above our HBO cameras.
29:59Palomino beating Durant with a punch for a change.
30:02And now working the body.
30:04Palomino still has firepower, even though he has taken a lathering.
30:23This is a good fight.
30:24First time in the fight, Palomino is ahead in a round at this stage.
30:30And that may change.
30:31Beautiful exchange there.
30:41That was a classic exchange.
30:43Only quality thoroughbreds of fighters can do that.
30:49Now the eye is cut.
30:51Palomino has a bad cut, I believe, now over his right eye.
30:54Palomino knows it.
30:54Palomino knows it, too.
31:06Now there's a danger that this fight could be stopped on a TKO.
31:09Because it doesn't look like Durant would take him out.
31:12Well, it'll be a riot if he does.
31:15A right eye.
31:16He's got a fight to stop.
31:16Very public.
31:17There's a right hand by Palomino.
31:28There's the bell.
31:30I'm going to give Palomino this one round.
31:33How generous of you.
31:36Well, I think he deserved it.
31:39There's a picture of Roberto Duran, who, as it says,
31:42successfully defended the world lightweight title 12 times.
31:45Freddie Brown, Ray Arcel.
31:52I wonder if the two welterweight champions of the world are watching Roberto Duran tonight,
31:57because he's certainly ready for either of them.
32:00Here we have a picture of the medication being applied to the right eye of Carlos Palomino.
32:07He looks very unhappy now.
32:10Very unhappy.
32:12Let's look at a replay here.
32:13There's Duran coming upstairs with a terrific shot to the body.
32:19Another one to the left side and then a right hand that was a little high and behind,
32:23but still was damaging enough to drive Palomino back.
32:27He hurt you wherever he hit you.
32:31A smile hurt.
32:33Round eight.
32:35Three rounds to go.
32:36He's too quick tonight.
32:40One knockdown in the fight so far.
32:42Duran knocked Palomino down in the opening second of the sixth round.
32:47Dallas took the mandatory eight count and has done fairly well since then.
32:54Duran, however, must be way ahead on the official point score.
33:02Our thoughts are unofficial.
33:05Duran has proven to everybody's satisfaction that he can take a well-awake punch.
33:09He just took two and three and a great fight back.
33:16My hat is off to Roberto Duran.
33:19He has made me a believer.
33:21Look at the uppercut.
33:22And Duran comes firing back.
33:25Or rather, Palomino comes firing back.
33:27This is a great fight, ladies and gentlemen.
33:38And those of you who really don't know about fights, you see something that's rare.
33:42Even though Duran is dominating the fight, you're seeing action here.
33:46And Duran's quest for a knockout.
33:48He may leave himself wide open and suffer a damaging blow himself.
33:54Because he's coming in wide open now.
33:56Trying for the knockout.
33:59Palomino holding him against the rope.
34:04And digging the body.
34:21Larry, I think A.J. Liebling would have loved the way Duran looked at the combat.
34:26Oh, good play in hand by Duran.
34:30Yeah.
34:33Labeling was a great writer who loved to write about basketball.
34:38Sweet science, he called it.
34:40It doesn't get any sweeter than this.
34:42Oh!
34:43I don't know what helped Palomino up that time.
34:46He put his shoulder and his hips and his toes into that one.
34:50And still Palomino took it.
34:55Wow.
34:55I don't think there's a lightweight in the world that could have stood up to that fight.
34:58They'd have been counted out.
34:59Half a minute to go in round eight.
35:01Palomino has to think about his punches now.
35:13They're not coming automatically.
35:15Duran's are.
35:20Excellent point.
35:21Put your hands up, Palomino.
35:24Just what you think is hurt.
35:26Incredible after taking a punch like that that he can come back in the last 15 seconds.
35:30Now let's join our host, Glenn Berman.
35:36Don, we had mentioned earlier that we were wondering what kind of effect it would have
35:39on Roberto Duran that his surrogate father was killed tragically recently.
35:44Apparently, no effect whatsoever.
35:46Duran's incredible as we take another look at what he dishes out to Carlos Palomino.
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36:18So, let's get back to the ringside for this dynamic Palomino-Duran fight.
36:23Doc?
36:24Well, there he is, Roberto Duran with Nesta Quinones and Ray Arcel.
36:31Round nine of a ten-rounder.
36:34That's almost a miracle for Palomino to win this fight.
36:39It's supposed to be a miracle, maybe, if he doesn't get knocked out.
36:42Yeah, he looks a little raggedy.
36:44But you never, never can tell.
36:46Duran is hitting him at Sunday punches now.
36:52Duran is just walking in, oblivious to Palomino's punching power.
37:02Roberto Duran, who many think right now, pound for pound, is the best fighter in boxing.
37:08That's what they used to say about Chuckle Wright Robinson.
37:13The comparisons will be coming.
37:14I think what Duran is en route to doing now is confirming the fact that he really is, pound for pound, one of the greatest fighters who's ever lived.
37:24No question.
37:25Because the way he lives tonight, whichever well-to-weight champion gives him a shot is going to be the former well-to-weight champion about 15 rounds or less later.
37:35Or less.
37:36Larry, I'm sure they're both watching.
37:44Only one knockdown in the fight.
37:47Palomino was down in the sixth round from a crushing right hand.
37:50Arthur McKinney doing his splendid job of the Duran.
38:01Now look at that quick right hand.
38:05And here he comes back.
38:06Amazing.
38:10I've seen him do it many times.
38:11I've seen him come back to win by knockout.
38:14Duran has done too much at this point.
38:25However, it is not as one-sided as it would call for stopping the fight.
38:30Oh, no.
38:31Every so often, Palomino comes roaring back with some good shots.
38:35Like that.
38:36Yeah.
38:36Yeah.
38:36Yeah.
38:41The battle of survival for the brilliant young Mexican-American, Palomino.
39:07The question is, will he?
39:09With a big punch round ahead.
39:10Seconds to go in round nine.
39:20Duran is making a lot of believers tonight.
39:28The ball ending round nine.
39:31Tremendous round for the former lightweight champion.
39:36Arthur McKinney, the referee, goes over and takes a look.
39:40At Palomino.
39:41I'm going to ask Arthur how he looked in there.
39:44Arthur.
39:45Arthur.
39:46How does Palomino look?
39:48How does Palomino look?
39:49He does look fresh.
39:53Thank you, Arthur.
39:55I don't know if fresh is the word.
39:56Arthur McKinney, the referee, said that Palomino was surprisingly fresh.
40:00And he said he looks fresh.
40:02That's a tough one.
40:03For those in the audience who aren't familiar with the well-of-weight picture, the winner
40:08of this fight can get a shot at Wilfredo Benitez, who's the WBC champion, after Benitez
40:13presumably will fight Sugar Ray Leonard next December.
40:16Or he can fight Palomino Cuevas, the WBA champion.
40:21Duran has indicated that he preferred to fight Cuevas, perhaps because he might have difficulty
40:28getting Benitez in the ring.
40:29This round's down.
40:31For those of you expecting to see our regular HBO program, we've interrupted our normal schedule
40:36to bring you this exciting night of professional boxing from Madison Square Garden in New York.
40:41The 10th and final round, Roberto Duran, former lightweight champion, making a very auspicious
40:48debut in the well-of-weight rank against the top contender.
40:51There'll always be one other bout.
40:53He's won four bouts against well-of-weight, but this is the toughest man he's met.
40:57Number one contender, Carlos Palomino, who I'm sure will no longer be the number one contender
41:04in another couple of minutes.
41:08Palomino's knees buckled on that right hand.
41:10Duran is not protecting his lead, Don.
41:17He's not freezing the ball, you mean.
41:19Exactly.
41:21I'll tell you, he gives you three minutes of action every round.
41:23Two minutes left in the fight.
41:25Just two.
41:26That was all Duran.
41:28If he lost one round, he only lost one.
41:30Maybe the seventh round.
41:33He had Palomino down in the sixth, but couldn't keep him down.
41:37A tribute to Palomino's heart.
41:40Duran's laughing.
41:42Oh.
41:44Browning.
41:53That old trick.
41:55What you saw there was the street kid in him, coming out and causing a beaten opponent.
42:00There's no mercy show here.
42:02Enough than half a minute to go in the round as Palomino fights back.
42:16The crowd urging him on to the knockout.
42:18He's got one minute to do it.
42:29Palomino's cornered again and a neutral corner and an off-corner, as a matter of fact.
42:33Took another hard right hand.
42:35He's taken way too many.
42:36A long 40 seconds to go in the fight.
42:49That's a long time.
42:50And you're in against the Porto Terrain from Panama.
42:53I was going, they've enjoyed it all the way, and that's been a tremendous fight, although
43:19a one-sided one.
43:20However, it did have its moments, but Palomino fourth back game.
43:24It's almost over.
43:27Here it is.
43:29Great fight.
43:32Durant down on his knees as Ray Arcel goes in after.
43:36With Esther Quinones and Freddie Brown.
43:41Jackie McCoy comes out.
43:44They get Dallas Palomino.
43:46They've got Durant up on the wing post.
43:50Right into the crowd.
43:51Palomino's legs in the ring.
44:02Larry Merchant is up in the ring.
44:04I don't know if he's ready yet.
44:06He's talking to Palomino.
44:09Palomino, a gentleman all the way.
44:11Did not flinch once in the fight.
44:14He did the best he could.
44:21Bill Naramon, the ring announcer, is collecting the slips.
44:26And Larry probably will have an interview with Roberto Duran, who is interpreter Luis Enriquez.
44:33Luis is up in the ring.
44:35There's a picture of the crowd up there.
44:37Don King is in there.
44:42He's the one with the hair.
44:44But we know who won.
44:48Luis Enriquez, the interpreter, is the tall man in the tuxedo.
44:51Okay, Larry, are you ready?
45:10Larry!
45:10Larry!
45:14All right, we'll try to get to Carlos Palomino before the verdict is announced.
45:18Carlos, what are your feelings about the fight?
45:20Oh, as you can see, I just, you know, I'm not, it's not what I used to be.
45:27You know, I don't have that hard drive at the end.
45:30He was very strong and he was very quick, which surprised me.
45:33I didn't expect that much quickness after he had put on that much weight.
45:37But, you know, that's the way boxing is.
45:39For some, there's others.
45:41And I had a great career.
45:43I have to believe that this might be it.
45:46This is the end.
45:46How is his punching power compared to other well-awaits you for?
45:50Well, I've got a harder puncher.
45:52He surprised me.
45:53What did he say to you, Carlos?
46:03He said, you know, thank you for the fight.
46:08It's a good fight.
46:09I told him that he's a tremendous fighter, that he's very quick.
46:13He's surprising by that.
46:14He said, that's right.
46:15I'm working on this right key because I know I was a live fighter.
46:19He's very quick.
46:21Let's hear the verdict.
46:22Ninety-nine.
46:24Ninety.
46:25Duran.
46:26Duran.
46:36Judge Harold Irvin Rosen.
46:41Ninety-nine.
46:43Ninety-nine.
46:44Duran.
46:45Duran.
46:45Duran.
46:49Duran.
46:50Duran.
46:51Duran.
46:51Duran.
46:51Duran.
46:51Duran.
46:51Duran.
46:52Duran.
46:52Duran.
46:56Duran.
47:00Duran.
47:00Duran.
47:02Duran.
47:02Duran.
47:02Carlos, let me ask you.
47:03Do you think he is going to be the next well-awaited champion of the world?
47:08Duran.
47:08Duran.
47:09Duran.
47:09Duran.
47:10He can beat either Cuevas or the WBC champion.
47:16I don't know about Cuevas.
47:17I think Cuevas may be a little stronger.
47:19It would be a tremendous fight.
47:21I don't usually go to fights, but that is one fight I would go to.
47:23I have to say that.
47:24You want to see Cuevas and Durant just ruin each other.
47:27No, not really.
47:28I think it would be a tremendous fight for boxing.
47:31People thought this would be.
47:32I don't believe it was.
47:34I wasn't up to par.
47:35I wasn't what I know I can do.
47:37And maybe he had something to do with it.
47:41Oh, definitely.
47:42You know, he's much faster than I'd expect it and a lot much stronger than I expected.
47:46Thank you very much, Carlos.
47:48You've been a terrific champion.
47:52I don't think that I'm going to get to Roberto Durant tonight.
47:56Too much celebrating going on by the Panamanian community here at Madison Square Garden.
48:01He doesn't speak English very well, but he speaks boxing as well as any man who ever lived, perhaps.
48:08Let's go back to ringside and Don Dunphy now.
48:12All right, Larry.
48:14Ryan, what did you think about the fight?
48:16Well, Roberto Durant has made me a believer once again.
48:20He made me a believer as a lightweight, and now he's made me a believer as a welterweight.
48:24He could be either champion, it is my guess.
48:28He's an amazing fighter.
48:30Amazing.
48:31I doffed my hat.
48:33I have a feeling he's going to have trouble getting them in the ring with him.
48:36Oh, indeed.
48:37If they watched him tonight, he certainly will.
48:40After what he did to Palomino.
48:44Oh, man.
48:45We're at ringside, Don Dunphy, Ryan O'Neal, and Larry Merchant.
49:02I'm getting a message from our control center, which I wish they'd repeat to me.
49:08Okay, we're going to look at a piece on Larry Holmes now.
49:16That fight is coming up shortly.
49:18Holmes and Weaver.
49:32Bye-bye.
49:34Bye-bye.
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