Very sad update on Donald Curry

Curry should have moved up right after the Mccroy bout end of debate.
Look at how sunken in his cheeks are before even the first round started vs Honeyghan.
Honeyghan punched pretty good but who did he beat at welter? Bumphus. Hatcher. Blocker???
First elite welterweight besides Curry he faced he got slaughtered by - Starling.

 

They even said about Donald Curry on the Sept 27 1986 telecast by Showtime that Curry did have trouble making the weight.

 

Don't get me wrong Curry also let himself party too much but lets just be honest for once: The Curry at his best takes out Honeyghan.
Curry vs MCcallum was like watching a fighter fight two different fights. For one round Curry is brilliant and he's just picking Mike apart.
Next round he's leading with his head and your like what is he doing??
And all this BS crap about how Mike was "setting" Curry is a fairy tale.
You don't "plan" on almost getting dropped in the second round. Curry,since he did keep leading with his head, caused heads to collide which was his fault.
So of course his eye is going to start to swell which in turn will cause vision problems which if you ever dealt with a swollen eye you tend to hold your head higher making it easier to see.
Which Curry was doing as he backed straight out and Mike to his credit caught him. But he wasn't "setting" it up- he saw an opportunity and took it.

 

Agreed.

 

Hell, he barely got by Blocker.

 

Blocker was a very awkward boxer because he so tall for his weight class.
Funny because I thought Blocker lost to Starling.

 

He did but it wasn't a boxing lesson or anything similar. Starling got outworked. His style just like Winky's could lose him rounds without getting beat.

 

The second fight Curry beat him pretty good almost dropping Starling in the last round.

 

Page 4 of the thread and already lots of excuses for his losses.

 

The reason Donald didn't get the Hagler fight was due entirely to Ray Leonard, I refuse to call him Sugar, only one Sugar Ray mr Robinson. Leonard persuaded Don to put a hold on the Hagler challenge while he was supposedly " Advising " Don. The reason being was he was secretly negociating the fight for himself. The first we heard about it in Texas was when Hagler announced it. Leonard had gone AWOL No wonder he doesn't visit Texas much ... Probably wise. A very dirty trick

 

The beating Marvin Hagler would've given Donald Curry would've been criminal. Curry couldn't even get past Rene Jacquot, for God's sake.

Let it go. Curry would've been in even worse shape today if he'd been beaten to a pulp by Marvin Hagler.

Donald Curry wasn't a middleweight. In fact, he was just an ordinary super welter.

 

Maybe who knows Leonard blatantly robbed Don of the chance to move up by stabbing him in the back.
Those two Leonard & Akhbar Muhammad were two of the reasons Don's career ended the way it did.
It was a blatant stab in the back. Then to cap it all Leonard robbed Hagler too

 

Blatantly robbed him of the chance to move up? How did he rob him of a chance to move up?

Curry lost to Honeyghan in 86. Lost to McCallum in 1987. Lost to Jacquot in 1989.

Curry wasn't beating Marvin Hagler.

Curry was denied ONE MAJOR BEATING. That's all.

If Curry wanted to be a middleweight so bad in 1986, he could've moved up and fought Hearns, Roldan, Kinchen, Mugabi, Barkley, or his Olympic teammate Shuler. Lots of options.

Leonard didn't do anything to him. Leonard didn't decide who Hagler fought. Leonard didn't decide who Curry fought. Leonard didn't put a roadblock up in front of the middleweight division and prevent Curry from entering.

Being so incensed nearly 4 decades on is nonsensical.

 

I was in Ft Worth Texas at the time this happened I practically lived at Dave Gorman's gym, saw what went on first hand. Leonard was suppose to Advise Don. Advisors do not stab people in the back to suit their own ends like Leonard did. I got to know quite a few rough & ready characters in my years at Dallas/Ft Worth & in my opinion I can quite see why Leonard got out of Dodge as fast as he could.lol wise man It was a blatant stab in the back

 

You don't seem to appreciate the subtlety that the Honeyghan that Starling beat was not the same Honeyghan who beat Curry. Ditto the Curry who beat Starling twice was not the same Curry beaten by Honeyghan. I dont know if your rant is directed at me..but if it is...I already said Curry was a zombie that night and suggested that if a rematch had taken place Don would've won...even the diminishing 154lbs Don.

Why was Honeyghan not " unique at all"?
I'm not comparing him to Hearns or Leonard or even Curry who were multi faceted legends...

However there havnt been too many Jamaican Cockneys ..elusive able to move so fluidly,jab and box at a high level...while also being able to brawl and having pulverising one punch power .......Lloyd was entertaining in and outside the ring in a star studded era