Will Donald Curry ever be inducted into the Hall of Fame?

Curry had a very short prime. He struggled badly to make weight at 147 and in hindsight his best was before McCallum, so why hold this against him

 

American voters seem to be a lot more lenient for any top fighters they had below feather(or American fight fans in general for fighters from those weightclasses who got a lot of exposure and had big fights or fought most of their career in America) when compared to their more widely exposed and debated greats in the Welter to Heavy range.

The point in brackets is understandable to an extent and guys like Johnson, Carbajal, Lopez and Gonzalez have benefited.From a certain perspective they all will seem like underappreciated, forgotten fighters.And not unjustly so.

still, i get the feeling some of these voters should be doing more to consider their overall merits in comparison to the other fighters not only on the ballot, but from their weightclasses throughout history and from every region.


As for curry, he does deserve it by what the IBHOF are looking for, though he has marks against him and like sweet i don't see him not being picked as some gross injustice.

Curry vs Honeyghan is rightly remembered as one of the great upsets of a top P4P fighter, but it was also one of the all-time meekest surrenders by one.Weight drained or not, Curry should have fought harder in that fight when it became clear he was in for a tough night.

 

And Lloyd fought the best fight he could fight with the great Mickey Duff. I remember that night I think Sept 26, 1986 when Curry lost to Honeyghan. I was surprised as everyone was. I think the boxing magazines thought he would stop Honeyghan in 5 or 6 rounds. But I did notice that Lloyd's fights were ending early and he had some power. Somehow the shorter punches of Honeyghan worked better against Curry than the long punches of McCrory, who looked terrible against Donald in 1985. McCrory should have given Donald a better fight regardless of anything. McCrory seemed totally affected by the hype of the fight. By the way back to Honeyghan. I have his fight with Gene Hatcher somewhere. An incredible fast knockout.

 

McCrory was thoroughly overhyped at the time.to many people wanting another Tommy Hearns when it was clear by the Jones fights he didn't have that kind of power or ability.

 

that is for sure. He looked flat and had nothing for Donald. When comparing their records the one thing which stood out was how Milton struggled with Colin Jones in 2 fights, and how Donald beat Colin comparatively easy. But it was still a shock when Milton was knocked out easily in 2 rounds.

 

I will be the first; if Barry McGuigan...

Seriously though Mark Johnson, really???

A very solid career, who had a few fun fights...

But Curry was considered up there at the time as possibly the finest fighter on the planet, at a time when the sport had relevance in the mainstream media.

Yes, he turned out not be quite the fighter he looked in 1985. But two wins over Starling, a tough win over Hwang, a brutal destruction of both Colin Jones and Milton McCrory added to beating the useful LaRocca was fine form.

Then victories later on over Lupe Aquino and Gianfranco Rosi is more than some who have entry to the Hall of Fame. Add this to his mainstream appeal; Curry also has much Fame as 90% of those in the Hall...

 

Yeah, the way things are now, he'll eventually get in.He was lucky to have caught McCrory in 1985, instead of 1982/1983, though.

 

Get the **** out of here you spamming chump.

 

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He absolutely should be in, a short prime but an excellent WW champ who unified a very good division, head to head he rates highly, his best wins rate highly. Yes he has losses but for some reason it's allot worse for a fighter of the last 30 years to have losses than the fighters of yester years. It was bad management throwing him in with McCallum so soon after Honeyghan, he really needed to build upto that 1, not that I think he wins it anyway. Still a decent technical contest when it lasted mind you.