Donald Curry Vs Oscar De La Hoya @ 147

How about Colin Jones?He was a huge puncher.

How about Terry Norris?A shot Curry went 8 rounds with Norris.

Most of these people posting didn't see a prime Curry in action.They saw Curry vs Santos,Mccallum etc.

 

Concur.:good

 

Even Ray Leonard?

 

From 81 - 86 Curry was anything but erratic. His peak run from Stafford up until Honeyghan beat him was a model of consistency at the absolute top rung. Erratic after the Honey fight for sure, but before beaten he was awesome and that's the Curry we see here pitted against Oscar.

 

Curry begin to go downhill after a group of outsiders swooped in and convinced him to dump his long-time manager and trainer Dave Gorman from over in Ft. Worth. I spoked with Gorman about it and Gorman was obviously bitter because he lost his prize world-class fighter.

Curry at the time was one of the best in the world.

Curry was quiet spoken and well regarded in DFW.

Then he was dried out (or overconfident), lost the Honeyghan fight and
was never the same.

 

On their respective "very best nights" I think DLH takes a very tight decision, though this one could go either way (mark my words a peak '81-85 Curry gives Oscar absolute hell)

Any version of Curry post-86 and it's De La Hoya's fight- without question. Best versions, though makes for a great matchup.

 

Very harsh. He was a very good technical boxer.

Unfortunately the Honeyghan defeat ruined him ...:-(

 

At one time they mentioned a possible fight with the Marvellous one.
It made me cry with laughter. Curry was good for a short period but never that great to begin with

 

This topic is right up my street. The Lone Star Cobra was my favourite fighter. I have seen a lot of ODLH especially the expert manner in which he was guided through most of his career. Essentially bwhat you have in Don Curry was a true thoroughbread, a great Welterweight champion who was dominant and in pursuit of all time greatness until he ran into Lloyd Honeyghan and Marlon Starling. At his brillant best he was probably unbeatable.

ODLH was a very very good fighter who was put into a lot of matches against names when they were on the way down or past their best. However that is not to deny his good talent.

I think at their best by that I mean a pre Honeyghan Curry then the Cobra knocks out ODLH. After this Curry yes he would win another world title but was never quite the same so after 1986 you might have to favour ODLH.

 

THis would be a tough fight and i think Curry would put a scare into ODLH early putting him down, however Oscar would adjust and fight his way back in with ODLH slightly behind on the card he explodes in the 8th. Curry comes out for the 9th but he never showed great recuperative powers,maybe against HWang but ODLH isnt no Jun Sok Hwang.

Oscar ko 9

 

I think a prime Curry could more than hold his own against Hoya and would try to work inside, where he would dominate. Oscar's guts carries him to the end, but Curry gets the decision.

 

Theres only a handful of Welters in history who could beat the 84-85 Curry.... Oscar aint one of them.

 

Peak Donald Curry would have been too much for Oscar and would have hurt and decked him to win a decision over 15, a distance which Curry was accomplished in, more so than Oscar.

 

Prime Curry would win by unanimous decision over 15, there's no way he kayoes De La Hoya.However, if this is the late '82/early '83 Curry, then De La Hoya has a chance to beat Curry , possibly stop him.