Duran was born and raised in El Chorrillo, an impoverished neighborhood in Panama City situated very close to the Panama Canal. As a poor kid from the streets, he witnessed the ongoing tension ...

Among the film’s strengths: • Edgar Ramirez in a true star turn as Duran. From the moment we see the street kid in bell bottoms strutting through the streets of Panama through his meteoric ...

The Joppy-Duran fight was originally supposed to take place on June 6, 1998, on the undercard of Evander Holyfield vs. Henry Akinwande at Madison Square Garden, but that event was canceled on ...

A slum kid with a scrappy gift for fighting, Duran’s will to win in the ring arose, according to the film, out of a desire to avenge his struggling nation over its hotly contested, American ...

Roberto Duran (Edgar Ramirez) is considered by most fight experts to be, pound-for-pound, one of the greatest boxers of all time. The intimidating icon earned his nickname “Hands of Stone” by ...

Roberto Durán had a historic boxing career that included over 100 professional victories, and a new clip from the upcoming film, Hands of Stone, reveals one of his biggest motivations — ice cream.

My dad died in 1999. Duran, long after securing his spot among the sport’s immortals, was still fighting at 48, and he had three bouts left before retiring with a 103-16 record following a 2001 ...

I received an advanced screener for I Am Duran, the documentary on the life and career of one of the greatest boxers of all time, Roberto Duran. If you're a boxing fan and historian with an ...

Irichelle and Roberto Duran Junior slugged their way to knock-out wins as four-times world champion and father Roberto Duran looked on from a roaring crowd in Panama City.