Yep, that was a total shock. It wasn't shown live so I had to get up an watch Ceefax for news (yep, it was that long ago). I couldn't believe it when Honey won!!!
Was the Honeyghan Curry fight ever actually shown on TV - to my shame I've never actually seen the fight. You were lucky to have Ceefax. I remember when Chavez fought Taylor first time I had to walk to the nearest phone box to call a mate who had Ceefax (or the Oracle!) to look it up for me.
Yep, they showed it on the Sunday afternoon on ITV. You have to admire Honey for taking that fight, he could have sat on his number 1 ranking and got a fight for the vacant title when Curry moved to 154.
I still remember that day, being shunted into my mum and Dad's bedroom to watch that on their old PYE B/W Portable TV, Ah the good old day's.
No offence to Laguna, very good fighter and all, but he wasn't rated as highly as Curry was. At the time Curry was what? P-4-P NO.2 or something like that. Honeygan's victory definitely stands out from the rest IMO.
Before the Honeyghan fight people were asking whether Curry could have beaten Ray Leonard, whether he should skip 154 and go straight to a fight with Hagler at 160 and not getting laughed at!!!
In fairness fella Buchanan was a bigger outsider against Laguna than Jennings is against Cotto. We're obviously talking about the first fight, not the second in MSG.
:happyBeat Laguna twice and made Carlos Ortiz quit on his stool at the Garden. That's the stuff Phonk, here's another one. (Couldn't find the DeWitt fight) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyw_v1sN-58
Curry seemed the absolute real deal, I had Curry doing over Hagler, pre Honeyghan.... ; Yeah alright I know; Hindsight is beautiful thing! But that was how good Curry seemed, thus it showed how good Honeyghan was winning, especially a Brit winning in the USA!