His eyes at the end showed he was very guarded like someone who was lying about something, what is there to lie about, if you quit you quit why the a million excuses......Yeah SRL/Duran was in no way some epic boxing clinic. Leonard was winning by prolly 2 or 3 rds but that was it. It's one of those boxing performances that got overrated due to the situations surrounding the fight similar to Bryd/Vitali. nikkas make it like Vitali was kicking dude's ass all over the ring, but Bryd won about 3 rounds and was making that nikka miss mad punches all while countering and even putting him against the ropes. Viatli was winning, but he wasn't dominating or felt comfortable enough to coast against a smaller guy that was coming on and that he couldn't hurt. Those last couple of rounds would have been hell for him.
With Duran I felt it was a combination of things. Dude wasn't in his best shape and already did the so called impossible by beating Ray the 1st time. As soon as he saw dude come with a different game plan he knew what was up. He still gave it a good go, but Ray found his groove around the 6th round and was only going to pick it up from there. Duran knew that and prolly didn't want it to get that far of a schooling. SRL had his best moments late in the last fight and was basically going to improve off of that in the rematch.
Duran says he has no regrets, but if he could go back and do it again, he wouldn't quit. He prolly won't tell the real truth until he's on his death bed. His eyes looked sorry and defeated as fukk in the ring with SRL at the end of the show. That shyt said it all right there.
Great show nonetheless and I'll always respect Duran, but he did bytch out. He thought it would take away from SRL's performance and it did to an extent, but it backfired and made him look worse history wise.
As far as Duran caring about history, he said it dont bother him that people scream No mas on the street then showed his mansion and Benz, being subtle as hell with the message they were trying to convey
Duran wa smug as fukk throughout this shyt, boxing fans ignore shyt right in front of their face tho