MIAMI -- In a unanimous decision, boxing great Roberto Duran will get back his five stolen championship belts from four weight classes.

A federal appeals court has upheld a jury verdict that decided the belts were stolen from Duran by his estranged brother-in-law in a staged 1993 robbery at the boxer's Panama home while the fighter was living in Miami.

	A court unanimously ordered that five title belts be returned to Robert Duran. His estranged brother-in-law had stolen them in 1993.

The buyer, antiques dealer Luis Gonzalez Baez, claimed Duran and his wife authorized Bolivar Iglesias to sell the belts and household furniture to raise money when the family was having financial problems.

The FBI seized the belts when Baez offered to sell them to undercover agents. The jury had to pick the rightful owner and sided with the boxer, who attended the 2002 trial with his wife and mother-in-law. Iglesias was absent.

Judge Ed Carnes, who wrote the decision for a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, took two of 11 pages in his ruling to cover the highlights of Duran's career.

The court rejected two arguments by Baez. His attorney, Gordon Watt, had not read the decision Monday and had no immediate comment.

He insisted the trial judge should not have allowed jurors to hear that Iglesias apologized for the theft and argued that Duran should have been sanctioned, possibly with dismissal of his claim, for delivering late witness and exhibit lists.

Duran's attorney did not return a call for comment.

Nicknamed "Hands of Stone," Duran won 104 fights, 69 by knockout, and lost 16.