What happened to Donald Curry's career?

Gorman became subversive...akbar Muhammed got his claws in...weight drained in his last 2 fights at WW he basically has three consecutive opponents billygoat headbutt him repeatedly and in 2 cases deliberatly...the 300 plus amateur fights....a relative dying...and the slight technical glitch of leading with his face which he never did at 147...lastly srl misled him....but check out how even a shot curry was outboxing mccallum...was even with nunn after 8 and presented a few issues to norris....prime curry beats all 3....i disagree with some ...the two wins over a starling at his best and most motivated say a lot...i think srl aside he could have taken out hearns ,benitez and the no mas duran

 

They did an interview with Donald a few years back, and he was addressing kind of sideways, saying Ray was who he was. He should have given Leonard the pimp slap treatment.

 

Personally, I think the Honeyghan loss affected him in a lot of different ways.

 

I rewatched the mccallum fight last night and its clear don was already pretty shot .he just didnt seem as sharp and that had nothing to do with the quality in front of him. After 404 amateur bouts and weight problems since 1984 it had all taken a toll.

I stand by my assessment....the curry of 1984/85 albeit a short prime was exceptional

 

Yes that is very much what i had to recognise in the past i recalled don winning every round before the kayo....here i still had curry in the lead but felt mike was doing better than hbo were acknowledging

 

Oh please. After Honeyghan Don was done.
McCallum was getting outboxed by a shot Curry. He wasn't planning some great attack to stop Curry. He was getting outboxed by Curry even almost getting knocked down in the second.
Curry listened to the wrong people and it cost him.
Hearns,Leonard,Benitez Curry could have held his own with them when he was at his best. Not saying he wins but he isn't a walk over and he had the skills and power to beat those 3.

 

Have to agree with this overall. Curry never made such an elementary mistake either before or after in his career.mccallum was a master to capitalize its a measure of him as a fighter but even a shot curry was handling mike fairly easily.im not going back on what i said i rewatched the fight a third time with commentary off.i still had it 3-1 going in to the 5th.

Have any of u seen nunn-curry recently? A brilliant performance by a utterly shot curry if that makes sense.don gassed as he did frequently at the end of his career but was perhaps up after 8 certainly even on my card.....nunn himself said don curry was the best overall boxer he ever faced and said his skills were insane (ring best i ever faced)

I think gorman was the catalyst for everything.he was hellbent on his 28% he briefed against don to the immature slanderous jeff ryan/farhood/katz/matthews new york cabal of boxing magazines....don was a very sensitive introverted man...it wore him down...akbar muhammad actually gave pretty good advice to curry v nunn in the corner but he was no cornerman

Two things would have changed currys destiny post summer 1986.

Obviously shoulda moved up to light middle .

Changed gorman/akbar for eddie futch or gil clancy, emmanuel steward to train manage him and if he really needed srls influence got ray to pull in mike trainer as his manager...but the treacherous srl was never gonna allow it....id have settled for futch or clancy either wouldve done a great job.

All 3 would have prevented Don from lapsing into that career altering defensive glitch of starting to lead with his face which gil clancy first identified before the mccallum fight.

A peak rested curry in those circumstances coulda been the one to beat mccallum and a fading hearns in 1988...defences with benn and a duran than a superfight with nunn for late 89...i see him winning all these fights before a superfight with srl in 1990 where he does what norris followed by a knockout rematch defeat to hearns in 1991...and retirement as one of the ATG"s

 

Probably would've taken Hilton, Mugabi, and Duane Thomas as well under those circumstances.