Legendary Roberto Duran hospitalized with COVID-19

The legendary Roberto "Hands of Stone" Duran (103-16, 70 KOs) celebrated his 69th birthday ten days ago. Today, unfortunately, he is in the hospital.

Yesterday, due to a respiratory illness, the former world lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight champion was hospitalized in a private clinic in his homeland in Panama. He was immediately tested on COVID 19, and his test gave a positive result.

“We tried not to hesitate. Not only this is a potential coronavirus threat, we also had in mind the lung damage my father suffered in 2001 in a car accident in Argentina. These events made him finally quit boxing. Fortunately, for today he has no other symptoms besides a cold. He is not in intensive care and is not connected to a ventilator. He is just under observation. We just talked to the doctor, who told us that his lungs were all right and that he had no severe symptoms of the disease,” the son of the legend Robin Duran commented on the incident.