what factors derailed don curry from greatness

[Isaac Hunt]

#1Assassin, You pretty well covered it. I will expand on what I meant by

"Curry looked better than he actually was."

It was written in the context of the thread title.

"What factors derailed Don Curry from greatness "

Many are called few are chosen and the legendary greats pretty well have EVERYTHING. Curry had the "look" of legendary greatness about him,his upper body movement and his style made him look super impressive. But as I stated the legendary greats have everything and his footwork was his weakest suit and his limiting factor and that contributed to Honeyghan being able to get away with his deliberate policy of headbutting and ramming himself to victory. There is one headbutt in the fight where it looks like he broke his nose and it was all downhill from there.
IMO had he worked on his footwork and got it up to the standard of the rest of his technique we would be talking about him today as one of the greats.

" his feet were spread too far apart and his movement suffered. he also had a habit of squaring up his feet making himself a bigger target and even less mobile. when he did move it was often in a straight line which is what got him knocked clean out against mccallum."

This is spot on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwNsz8yRoBg

FYI I consider Curry a great fighter who had the potential to be a legendary great fighter. When someone does so much right imperfections are more obvious. i boxed at the time and my coach pointed out his footwork flaws and predicted that Honeyghan would try and ram him out of the title.He did not think he would do it but said it was the only way he could do it.

[Bodyshot3]

In a word Honeyghan; an almost unknown Brit, served-up for a TV beating by Don King who turned-out to be something completely different.

Duff and Honeyghan took their chance and they saw their chance.

Honeyghan was on a hell of a run of form, strong at the weight and had finally dedicated himself in an almost messianic way to boxing.

He applied the right tactics as well, going right at Curry and backing his power and workrate and totally ignoring Don's reputation.

Rewatching the fight it is fascinating to see the way Honeyghan just bullies Curry. Lloyd is also a massive guy.

Duff - sadly, just departed - played a great set of cards as well. Downplaying Honeyghan's chances and making sure his man just appeared on fight night as an uncompletely unknown quantity.

[Ham Porter]

Arum was Curry's promoter, not King.

[tyger]

Curry did not seem like he really ever could rebound from the Honeyghan fight.