Was Lloyd Honeyghan’s victory over Donald Curry at welterweight a flash in the pan victory?

Didn't he just. I remember Honeys face swollen up, he really did a number on him.

 

Lloyd just put it on him and Curry being drained and dry to the core had nothing to dig down for. Classic fight, almost Rocky Balboa esq where a huge underdog has the fight of his life against a less than motivated champion.

 

To me Lloyd Honeyghan was a very talented welterweight, very intense fighter who happened to catch Donald Curry at a very vulnerable time. Curry was starting to have weight issues at 147 lbs, taking a few non title fights at 154lbs. Donald was starting to look past his training regiment, looking more towards getting a title shot at Marvelous Marvin Hagler, a big money fight as Curry was the undisputed World Welterweight Champion on the night of Sept 27 1986, across the ring from him was a very hungry Lloyd Honeyghan, looking to make a name for himself with a victory plus the tile. Honeyghan was like a gunfighter in a Western, looking to make a name by taking out a faster gun with a big reputation. Once Lloyd won the belt that night, all the desire appeared to be gauging on empty.

 

Because he had moved up in weight when he lost his titles. Remember this is the same guy who fought Vinny latter on at what Middleweight?
They made the offer to Honeyghan AFTER he was no longer a champion.
I actually thought he would have taken it as it was 350k. But he turned it down.

 

No Starling almost got STOPPED in the rematch especially in the last round.
The first fight was the close fight.
Something tells me you haven't watched either one of those bouts.

 

Oh I agree but I was shocked he turned down that kind of payday.

 

Ray Leonard screwed him out of a chance to fight Hagler . Just a damn snake in the grass Saccharin Ray Leonard. I refuse to call him Sugar Ray only one & that was Mr Robinson

 

Don wasn't fit to fight Dave Gorman tried to pull him out but they insisted he fought. He never had a chance

 

LOL!!

 

He should have listened to Gorman.

 

It serves them right. I'm talking about the boxing press.

so long as he was faced with suspect opponents in a very weak division, the press made a God out of him. With each new defense, just be fighting so so competition, they would build him up even more, as far as their imagination could take him

Once their man was exposed, they began making excuses for him but the fact is, it was only months later, he tried out a higher weight class vs Boss man McCallum and couldnt cut it there either

Curry FAILED in every big match he'd ever been in proving to me that he was the ruler of a weak division and the beneficiary of media built up. He had many chances to prove the Honeyghan fight was a fluke but by 1991, the REAL opposition had disproved the myth of Don Curry

 

Curry comfortably beat Starling twice.Starling beat up Honeyghan that's a form guide.