By Jonathan McEvoy
Last updated at 10:07 AM on 10th October 2011
Roberto Duran versus Trev Norton in the Vault of Dreams, lower Kersal Social Club, Salford.
That was the mismatch that took place in a sporting theatre as far removed from Caesars Palace as it is possible to imagine. outside, the rain cast a dreary smear over the Coronation Street terraces.
Inside, we were reminded of Duran’s well-recorded deeds — a bravura winner of world titles at four weights, one of the quartet with Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns who revitalised boxing in the Eighties.
Legend in town: Roberto Duran (right) takes on Trev Norton in Salford
Trev is a 52-year-old joiner from down the road.
But as we found out in the break from ‘an evening featuring the one and only Mr Roberto Duran’, he is a mean pool player. So pleased was Trev just to be on the table with his hero that he: a) clearly had no intention of winning their three-game ‘Duel in the Vault’; and b) walked round for the rest of the night with a smile that said he had scooped the Lottery jackpot.
Walk this way: Boxing legend Roberto Duran strides through the lower Kersal Social Club in Salford
Duran, aged 60 and 80lbs lighter than in recent times, had arrived here at the end of his British tour with his wife and son. he might expect to earn
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