Former four heavyweight boxing world champion, Roberto Duran has been hospitalized after contracting Coronavirus.
Duran ‘s son Robin said his father was taken to hospital because of cold-like symptoms “he has a lung that doesn’t work 100 per cent due to an accident he had in Argentina a few years ago”.
Robin later confirmed this morning that the 69-year-old Panamanian boxing legend has been diagnosed COVID-19.
“My dad’s tests have just arrived and confirm that he is positive for COVID-19. Thank God that for now he has no symptoms other than those of a cold,” Robin Duran wrote on Instagram.
“He is not in intensive care or on a ventilator, he is still under observation.
“We just talked to the doctor and he tells us that the lungs are fine and there is no indication of seriousness.
“Let’s continue to have faith that everything will turn out well.”
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The boxer, who retired with a professional record of 103-16 in 2001, was best known for his “Hands of Stone” and his win over Sugar Ray Leonard in June 1980 which won him the WBC Welterweight championship.
In 2006, Duran was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame, and was enshrined in 2007 in the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
