Prime Honeyghan in the 90s ?

He would lose to all of them apart from Mcgirt who was never any good away from the light welterweight division. From what Ivs seen of Honeyghan, he was lucky to have met Curry when curry was weight drained and even then he won by butting Curry and cutting him. Honeyghan should have been nicknamed the billy goat. The only decent fighter that Honeyghan beat that could be said to have been at his best or not outsized was Maurice Blocker and even that was down to a hometown decision.

 

Honeyghan has no shot in Hell against Trinidad. None at all. I can't think of a worse matchup for him. Tito stops him brutally.

I'd give him a somewhat decent chance against Ike, but I'd make Quartey a solid favorite. Especially the mid 90s Quartey, who was a beast.

Whitaker outboxes him, but Honeyghan would have his moments just based on being bigger than Pea and being awkward.

I agree with the above poster than Honeyghan clearly beats McGirt.

So out all of those guys, Trinidad is the only really bad matchup for him.

Against today's crop, Honeyghan fares a lot better. I'd favor him over any current welterweight except for Spence.

 

I think Lloyd gets a huge pass for too many average performances. He barely scraped by a green Blocker and lost to Vaca, all within a year of beating the shell of Curry (and, at 147, I do feel Don was a shell by then). Hindsight suggests we view the kayoes of Bumphus and Hatcher with a healthier pinch of salt.

When he came up against class opposition, he came up short. Starling was older, had more wear and tear and was coming off being sparked cold. And he battered Lloyd, scoring a rare stoppage. Honeyghan was probably the only opponent that Mark Breland looked great against and that was only three and a half years after Lloyd had beaten Curry, a period in which Lloyd never put a dominant run together. Not enough of a body of work to counter a view that, when he fought Curry, he was in the right place, at the right time.

Although he did take his chance with both hands, to be fair. It's just that he should have had the kind of career to fulfill his talent, which I don't think he did.

 

Yeah, as far as I can tell few boxers on this site get more mileage out of one performance than Honeyghan seems to get out of the Curry fight.

 

And I think they all beat him, including Buddy McGirt who, while a lesser version of Starling, had enough skill to perform a similar job on Lloyd.