Roberto Durán

Roberto Durán, born in 1951 and nicknamed Manos de Piedra, or Hands of Stone, is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. He won world championships in four weight classes, lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight, and reigned as undisputed lightweight champion. He was the second boxer after Jack Johnson to compete across five decades, and he finished with 119 fights, 103 wins and 70 knockouts. A pressure fighter who worked at close range with great physical and psychological intensity, he was trained from May 1971 until his second fight with Sugar Ray Leonard in November 1980 by Ray Arcel. The Sporting News named him Fighter of the Decade for the 1970s, The Ring voted him the fifth greatest fighter of the last 80 years in 2002, and many consider him the greatest lightweight of all time.