Curry V McCallum in 1985

I saw Mike in his first title match. I dont know if Don could beat him in 85. His eye looked like it was closing. This could have cost him eventually.

 

Curry would have stopped Mccallum? That's rubbish. Julian Jackson, Roy Jones Jr, Toney, Watson etc couldn't stop Mccallum. What makes you think that Curry would?

 

Jesus, maybe I shouldn't have said anything. Curry would've stopped McCallum?

 

Roy Jones PLAYED with Mccallum.Jackson was still green.Watson wasn't a puncher.Curry almost dropped Mccallum with 1 punch.If it had been earlier in the round Mccallum would have had problems.Curry could punch.

 

A bigger, stronger, quicker, and more powerful Roy Jones had more issues with a shot, bloated, 40 year old McCallum than most of his other LHW conquests. That in way holds any relevance whatsoever to a matchup Curry at 154 in McCallum's prime.

McCallum was never stopped in his entire career up to 40 years old at CW, facing bigger punchers along the way than Curry. I wouldn't call Jackson green either, just young. Those were the days when he usually showed the best variety of skills and speed, whereas he developed into more of a pure puncher as his career wore on.

Curry caught McCallum with a good punch off guard, he wasn't severely hurt or anything, and McCallum had more than enough durability and strength to survive anything Curry dished out. It was Curry who risked getting bombed out every time he took those kinds of risks. I could see him outboxing McCallum, but a stoppage is out of the question.

 

I can't really see McCallum losing this one. I think he is one of the most underated fighters of all time.

 

Watson was actually a pretty big puncher.As a true middleweight he likely hit harder straight up than Curry, though not p4p

 

Mccallum wasn't hurt when Curry almost knocked him down in the 2nd???
Sure ok.:rofl

 

He was staggered, but not badly hurt, as I said, which was shown by how quickly he recovered. I gave McCallum that round as well.

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Who cares even if Mike was hurt (which he wasnt really)...He had excellent recouperative powers which he showed many times throughout his career that spanned over 15 years and 5 weight divisions.

He rarely got hurt and if he did he almost never stayed that way for very long.

 

See how Curry had started to lean in with his head?Prime Curry never did that.And yet he's still picking Mccallum apart.

 

You really think Roy went all out against Mccallum?To me he coasted alot and only stepped it up in spurts during there bout.
Now rewatching the Curry-Mccallum bout I forgot how bad Curry really looked that fight.Sticking his head in first just trying to look for a big punch instead of boxing.Sad to see a boxer decline so quick.
As far as Mccallum great fighter but getting overrated.To command a fight with legends you have to have performances that capture the publics interest and Mccallum never really did.He would screw up when he shouldn't have-Sean Mannion in case.He should have crushed Mannion with in 8 rounds but he didn't.He played it safe and made a boring fight on HBO of all places.

 

Mike recovered from that shot very quickly and he stood up to Jackson's power, I can't see Curry stopping him I don't even think Hearns would stop him at this weight.

 

He was underrated for so long it almost seems that his name is almost synonymous with the word..In the process its almost gone full circle, which happens quite often with boxing fans because they can be among some of the most fickle and bandwagon jumping of any sports fans.

I think most know where he is at now...Some underrate him still, some, if not more also overrate him but he is a sits somewhere in 70-90 range for alltime fighters and thats where he belongs IMO.

Note...Mike is one of my favourite fighters..I make no secret about my bias towards him.

 

It wasnt Donald & Dave Gorman at all The biggest problems Don had were brought about by Akhbar Muhammad and Saccharin Ray Leonard. Don was sick with the flu and muhammad made him fight hence his loss to Honeyghan.
Dave gorman was a great manager and second father to his fighters I'll not hear a bad word said about him