floyd mayweather v manny pacquiao will be the biggest fight of all time financially and the most significant this century evaluating the greatest ever fights is a complex variable of several factors including not only the quality and excitement of the action but the political, social and cultural undertones, the scale of expectation and outside influences where money man v pacman comes to rank among the most important fights in ring history will depend upon what happens that coming night in the mgm grand garden arena in this, the sixth in a series of 12 fights that shaped boxing history, i recall when a hard man could take no more the no mas fight  new orleans, louisiana  november 25, 1980  sugar ray leonard v roberto duran  the first two of the three fights between the sugar man and hands of stone raised the curtain on what is considered the golden age of boxing in the classic middling weights of boxing, with ray leonard, roberto duran, thomas hearns and marvin hagler engaging each other in some of the ring’s epic battles by way of a preview, leonard had defeated the previous — and equally great — felix trinidad to win the world welterweight title sugar ray leonard celebrates after roberto duran quit in their fight in louisiana in november 1980  leonard decided to use his exceptional speed and movement to beat the panamanian in the second fight  george foreman v muhammad ali  october 30, 1974, kinshasa, zaire  joe frazier v muhammad ali  march 8, 1971, madison square garden, new york  jack johnson v james jeffries  july 4, 1910, reno, nevada  joe louis v max schmeling  june 22, 1938, yankee stadium, new york  muhammad ali v joe fraizier  october 1, 1975, quezon city, philippines  in his first defence, sugar ray had been contentiously outpointed by duran in montreal’s olympic stadium so confused was the scoring that the result was first announced as a majority decision that was changed to unanimous in duran’s favour after one judge was found to have totalled his score incorrectly and his card was altered from a draw to 148 147 there was more uproar when that judge was revealed to have marked just three rounds in favour of duran and only two for leonard — with 10 even that was described as ‘a monument to indecision’ come the inevitable rematch eight months later, in the louisana superdome in new orleans on november 25, 1980, controversy was to be replaced by disbelief leonard had gambled in the first fight by taking the macho decision to take on the panamanian hard man in a mano a mano slug out second time around he wisely chose to use his exceptional ability, especially his speed and movement duran became frustrated as leonard danced around him before unleashing his punches  after being caught flush in the face in the eighth round, duran turned his back and said 'no mas' ‘the whole fight i was moving moving then voom, i’d snap his head back with a jab voom, i’d snap it back again he’d try to get me on the ropes i’d pivot, spin off and pow, come under with a punch’ so it went for more than seven rounds, with duran becoming increasingly frustrated in the eighth leonard cranked up the psychological pressure by waving his right arm in circles and then planting a left flush in duran’s face there had been a moment earlier when leonard appeared to pat him playfully on the backside just before the bell duran turned his back and walked to his corner, waving his arms to indicate he was finished and famously telling the referee: ‘no mas’ spanish for no more leonard celebrates after his opponent quit, and said it was more of an achievement than knocking duran out  the result stunned the watching world, and it took three years for duran to rebuild his reputation  the watching world was stunned here was one of the most heroic warriors in boxing history quitting in the most humiliating manner possible clearly he felt humiliated sensing the reaction duran claimed he had stomach cramps caused by eating too heavily after the morning weigh in but his manager carlos eleta said: ‘he always eats like that before a fight he quit because he was embarrassed’ duran had been a national icon in panama and there was anger on the streets at his action television commercials featuring him were taken off it took three years for duran to restore his high place in his country’s esteem he did so on june 16, 1983, his 32nd birthday, by knocking out davey moore in las vegas to win the world light middleweight title rejoicing returned to the streets leonard would win their third fight in 1989 by a points landslide, thereby retaining the world super middleweight title but sugar ray took most pride from the trilogy from forcing duran to say no mas he said: ‘to me, making roberto duran to quit was better than knocking him out’
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