If this fight had happened in late-82 or early-83, as proposed, instead of the '85 matchup, could Don still have beaten Milton?
Yes, Curry was not the finished article in 82/83 that he was in 85, and I suspect he would not of blown the Iceman out, but he showed in the Hwang he could keep going when things got tough. Curry WU15
What happened to Milton "The Ice Man" McCrory between 1983 and 1985, from the well respected point of view from the late great trainer of McCrory Emanuel Stewart, that made hime more vulnerable to the wrath of prime Donald "The Cobra" Curry was McCrory's two tough fights he had in 83' in Arizona against rugged tough welshman Colin Jones who Milton fought a tough hard 24 rounds against before eventually wresting the WBC Welterweight belt from its vacancy. And of course during that particular time what further separarted Curry from McCrory was Curry's quality of opposition from his own two fights and wins over Marlon "The Magic Man" Starling( a guy that Stewart would put no where near McCrory), unbeaten fireball Nino Larracca & the same tough Colin Jones who Curry went up to England and stopped by a 4th round tko victory. So much that by the time that Curry-McCrory was finalized E.Stewart made sure that it was a scheduled 12-round fight, an advantage for McCrory, instead of a 15-rounder even though this fight was a full-fledged unification battle at 147 and yet at the same time with the amount of money Curry & McCrory made against each other that night which was $750,000 a piece compared to what Hearns vs Leonard & Delahoya vs Trinidad all made against each other you would'nt have guessed it.
