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Roberto Duran
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Miami Vice Character
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Jesus Moroto ("Payback")
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Born
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June 16, 1951, Guarare, Panama
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Active (Boxing)
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1968-2001
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Boxing Record
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103-16-0 (70 KO)
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Roberto Duran, (born June 16, 1951) is a retired Native-Panamanian professional boxer, who made his TV debut in the show Miami Vice as Jesus Moroto, a drug dealer working for Fuente (played by Frank Zappa) who had $3 million of Fuente's money before he was busted by Crockett and then called on the Vice cop to visit him in prison, where he killed himself in the episode "Payback". He is of Native-Latino descent.
Career[]
Duran was born in Guarare, Panama. He began his professional boxing career at the age of 16, and won his first WBA World Lightweight Championship in 1972, then would unify the titles with the WBC World Lightweight Championship win in 1978 (the same title that Alexis Arguello won four years later. Duran would vacate the unified titles in 1979 and move up to the welterweight division, and after peltering then-champion Sugar Ray Leonard with insults and cursing, took his WBC Welterweight Championship in February, 1980, in the "Brawl in Montreal". In November 1980, Duran would lose the title back to Leonard in what would be known as the "No Mas Fight", where Duran would say "No Mas, No Mas" after the eighth round. In 1983 Duran returned to title glory, capturing the WBA Light Middleweight Championship defeating Davey Moore in an eight round TKO. Duran was stripped of the title when he faced Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns, the WBC champion (and lost), because it was not sanctioned by the WBA. In 1989 Duran captured his fifth and final world title by beating Iran Barkley by decision to win the WBC World Middleweight Championship. He vacated his title when he moved up to super-middleweight and fought his third match with Sugar Ray Leonard, which he lost in 1990. Age and years of wear and tear were catching up to Duran, and he never again reached title glory. In 1998 he retired from boxing, only to un-retire the next year. He retired for good in 2001 after a near-fatal car crash in Argentina. Duran is a member of two boxing Halls-of-Fame: The World Boxing Hall-of-Fame (inducted in 2006) and the International Boxing Hall-of-Fame (inducted 2007).
Acting Career[]
Duran's other acting film roles include Rocky II (with Burt Young) and Harlem Nights.