Donald Curry versus Julian Jackson

A great many that didn't live the era think that what came after Honeyghan was his level. Some from the era do too. You had to be there in the nitty gritty. He'd been struggling to make weight and anyone with any clue about what they saw would notice he was a shell of himself. He tried to sue SRL for advising him to stay at welter such was his discontent. Jeff Chandler was just as obvious or even more so around a similar time.

Don from memory was the prompt or certainly notable in one mags story how some people can never get over their first loss. I'm pretty sure Foreman was mentioned too. It was inconceivable that he would come back and win the lineal title years after even that lol. At any rate he was a completely new man by the time he boxed again.

Don beat a big variety of styles in his short peak and that says a lot. He tracked down the flashy speedy boxer in La Rocca, he belted Colin Jones, a damn hard puncher in the pocket, he utterly overwhelmed McCrory and he compeitively but comprehensively outboxed and outbullied a top version of Marlon Starling who was a helluva welter when on. Starling as the second best 147 of his era as a matter of fact, no-one alive can tell me McCrory was better. Starling had an excellent all round game with no weaknesses.

Your point about Curry is bang on, he actually had a shortish but very dominant reign and was consider P4P #2 in the world at one point. The Tyson comparison is apt and i'd never thought about it before. Top post, you've been missed.

 

Curry was nothing short of superb at his best, but 154 was not his best. Even before Honeyghan got him, he was unimpressive in his forays at the higher weight. The power and show of physical strength, an underrated aspect of his welterweight acumen, was noticeably missing at 154. I think Jackson gets him early.