What happened to Donald Curry's career?

Don did not "go to Leonard for help" Leonard was supposedly retired & acting as Don's advisor,

 

What happened to Donald Curry's career. Simple...The Ragamuffin Man.

That night he met a bloke who didn't give a toss that he was fighting the No.1 rated p4p. Honeyghan simply wanted to destroy Curry, and he did. Honeyghan was a wrecking machine that night.

 

I think Hagler was the no. 1 pound for pound at the time.

Yes, Lloyd did put in a great performance, but Curry was not close to his McCrory late '85 form

It was a combination of Lloyd peaking, and Curry underperorming, likely from severe weight troubles.

It was similar to Mike Tyson getting destroyed by Buster Douglas.

Unlike, Buster, Lloyd did make some defenses.

But in losing a TD to Jorge Vaca, destroying shot Bumphus and faded, undeserving Hatcher and decisioning Maurice Blocker, winning a low blow DQ (where he inflicted the low blow) against Chung, and being anniliated by Starling, he never looked as good as he did against Curry.

 

Yes, he was overrated. But he was 1A or 2 in the WW division.

Of course, he wasn't as good as Hearns.

And Curry wasn't as good as Leonard, but was closer to Leonard than McCrory was to Hearns.

Hearns and Leonard were special.

I think if Curry had struggled with McCrory, then, maybe you could say Curry was overrated.....

But he absolutely destroyed him.

Jones was a very good fighter and McCrory edged him. Curry had no problem with Jones.

And Curry beat Starling twice, and we know Marlon Starling was a very good fighter. If not for Curry, Starling probably would have won a WW title much earlier than he did.

McCrory beat Steve Hearon, Roger Stafford, Randy Shields and Pete Ranzany on the way up. All four were solid top 10 types.

Most of his defenses were against weak foes, however. The best scalp was probably Pedro Villela, who was undefeated and held wins over Bobby Joe Young and Marlon Starling.

Gilles Elbilia was mediocre and would have lost to Nino LaRocca, but Nino got cut and the fight was stopped in Elbilia's favor with LaRocca ahead 5-0 or 4-1 in rounds. Curry, as we know, easily handled LaRocca, who was better than Elbilia.

Milton Guest was mediocre.

Even after being destroyed by Curry, McCrory was able to come back and beat the respectable Doug DeWitt at 160 lbs. and gave Mike McCallum an exciting, albeit losing challenge at 154 lbs.

McCrory was overrated. He was no Hearns. But, he could fight.

 

I spoke to lloyd online back in around 2002-2003 when vernon Forrest had just lost his titles....i told lloyd that in terms of wild energy...emerging out of nowhere...a relentless slugging style....ricardo mayorga reminded me of lloyd at least the wild slugging 87-89 lloyd.....but obviously honeyghan was also an excellent technical boxer up until the curry win.......lloyd told me his hands were severely damaged even before the curry win....and he lost his dedication and didnt train well during his championship days so often tried to get his man out quick...

My opinion is these two jekyl and hide aspects of honeyghan...brilliant technical boxer with fast reflexes...and the wild powerpunching reckles slugger ...met in unison best in his career v Don curry .....but as u say pea ...people forget what a murderous one punch powerpuncher honeyghan could be when his damaged hands permitted

He knocked out gianfranco rosi into lala land with one right hand....doing with one shot what it took noted puncher curry to do over many many more knockdowns

He kayoed jorge vaca with one solitary body punch...vaca woukd get floored but was very tough and durable...again honey did it with one punch...Simon Brown took far more.

One punch was all it took to knockout yung kil chung

Its no coincidence honeyghan held the record for fastest knockout in a world titke fight during his reign v hatcher....

he even did what curry,nunn,breland and brown couldn't he wobbled marlon starling

Yet this a guy whose hands were gone after curry who used painkillers during his reign ...than the last six years of his career totally shot reverted back to skillfull technical boxer and never brawled again..
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Fascinating fighter

I will stick my neck out and say honeyghan is one of the very most talented fighters ive ever seen....in his prime...cat quick reflexes,he could dance,slip shots v well,one punch power,heart and courage and good stamina...and a decent chin

 

Milton didn't really improve after he won the title against Jones, while Curry did. He was always a step ahead of Don as contenders, and they were scheduled to fight as the top two contenders when Ray retired. But he never got past that hump.

 

But after around 84, 85, Marvin was fading. Could Donald have done what Ray did? Probably not, but he had a decent shot with the right preperation.

 

I wouldn't say the Hagler who destroyed Hamsho in 1984 and wiped out Hearns in 1985 was "fading."

Leonard barely edged Hagler in 1987. Not in 1984 or 1985.

And Donald Curry was two divisions below Hagler. And Donald Curry never beat a great fighter in his life.

I wouldn't pick Curry over Hearns or Hamsho in 1984 or 1985. Forget Hagler.