Former undisputed welterweight champion and former junior middleweight titlist Donald Curry. Photograph courtesy of the Worldwide Boxing Corridor of Fame
He was an outstanding boxer and good technical fighter who earned titles in two divisions, at all times dealing with the very best males of his period. The good Donald Curry was born 61 years in the past at present.
Donald Curry was born on September 7, 1961 in Fort Price, Texas. On his personal recollection, he claims to have misplaced solely 4 bouts in additional than 400 beginner fights, and though some data differ the numbers look like right. In 1980, Curry defeated future world champ Davey Moore on the U.S. Olympic Trials, however he didn’t get to compete on the Moscow Olympics attributable to a U.S. boycott on these video games.
Turning professional in 1980 at 19 years of age, he grabbed his first world title belt solely 16 bouts and three years later with a choice over Jun-Suk Hwang to select up the WBA welterweight trinket, and made seven defenses of that belt, including the inaugural IBF belt towards Marlon Starling one 12 months later after which unifying these with the WBC belt in a memorable battle towards Milton McCrory in 1985.
Two fights later, Curry suffered a significant upset towards British-Jamaican contender Lloyd Honeyghan, shedding his belts in a 6th spherical stoppage. Curry instantly moved up in weight, profitable a few bouts earlier than trying and failing to carry a junior middleweight title in a bout towards Mike McCallum.
Curry would lastly earn a title in a second division along with his win over Italy’s WBC titlist Gianfranco Rossi in 1988, shedding it in his first protection towards Rene Jacquot the next 12 months.
After two stoppage losses (one in 1990 towards Michael Nunn for the IBF middleweight belt and one other one in 1991 towards Terry Norris for the WBC junior middleweight title), Curry introduced his retirement. He would add one other win and a loss to his report in an ill-advised return to motion in 1997, however not earlier than being indicted after which acquitted of all costs in relation to a drug case. He additionally frolicked in jail for failing to pay for youngster assist, and he later claimed that these monetary woes pressured his premature and in the end failed return to boxing.
He retired with a report of 34-6 with 25 knockouts. In 2019, he was inducted into the Worldwide Boxing Corridor of Fame.
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