Do you think it's possible in today's era of boxing, for a Middleweight boxer standing between 5'9-5'10, with the talent and skills of...?

Roberto Duran, to be a dominant Undisputed Middleweight Champ, then move all the way up to Heavyweight(with all of today's era Giant Heavyweight boxers) to win at least one of the world alphabet Heavyeight titles while still possibly maintaining some of his strength and power up to that weight division surprisingly well the way Duran was able to from Lightweight to Middleweight?

I'm just curious since today's boxing era is still pretty dull. Manny Pacquiao is clearly past his prime now and needs to retire as he has nothing more to prove(even before his expected loss to Floyd). Floyd has already beaten everyone that he can possibly beat so his career at this point, is now just meaningly to continue on so he needs to retire as well.

The only thing exciting about boxing today is Gennady Golovkin/GGG and Andre Ward(at least for a long-time die hard boxing fan like myself. The Heavyweight division is still in sorry @ss shape with no decent enough competition(especially with Wladimir slowly declining and his brother, Vitali being retired) and there's still very little to no boxers of any weight division with ATG-potential(Andre Ward and maybe GGG are the only definate boxers with that potential). The majority of today's supposed rising boxing stars lack the previous generation(from the 1930s-2000s) boxers' heart and discipline.

?2016-05-30T07:22:16Z

If they had the skill set of Duran (or comparable), then yes. The only problematic features today would be the sheer size of the Heavyweights, but skills and talent would offset that (especially because skill mastery and craft has mostly been gone from the Heavyweight division for a long time now).

Nightmare1232016-05-29T18:28:09Z

Yes, why not? Or course more likely their power would deteriorate like most fighters when they move up. But Duran was a rare breed, I doubt anyone from Lightweight in this era will move up to 160. But there are guys still jumping weights and testing themselves.

?2016-05-30T09:18:35Z

The heavyweight division is the best it's been in well over a decade.

lestermount2016-05-30T06:04:40Z

no a middle weight could not be competitive at heavy weight.
Back in the day heavy weights were around or less than 200, today they are much too large for a blown up middle weight to fight.

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