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Article: Duran's latest fight is in a courtroom against a Miami businessman.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- July 30, 2002
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MIAMI _ Renowned Panamanian pugilist Roberto Duran can't use his fabled Manos de Piedra _ Hands of Stone _ to win this fight.
Duran is turning to the U.S. courts in hopes of reclaiming five championship belts that he says were stolen from his Panama City home in 1993 by a treacherous brother-in-law who sold them, for a pittance, to a Miami businessman.
The first boxer to win championship titles in four weight classes, Duran held the belts bearing his name for the first time in nearly a decade on Tuesday during the first day of an unusual civil trial in front of U.S. District Judge William M. Hoeveler.
"This is history," Duran said in Spanish, ...