Hughroy/Trevor Currie?? - Info. Please..

chief · Post by **chief** » 01 Sep 2003, 05:42

Does anyone know much about this boxer??

His name has just come up in a conversation I was having and I had to say I'd never seen him fight..

Just looked up his record and I see he beat Glenn McCrory and lost to Julius Francis..

Anyway, has anyone seen him and was he any good??

Cheers..

Goz · Post by **Goz** » 01 Sep 2003, 05:52

I just recall the British Heavyweight scene of that time kind of mirroring what was going on with the world stage. Lardy(ish) Heavyweights hugging each other to death in dreary bora-thons. Hughroy Curry I seem to recall was one of those guys.

chief · Post by **chief** » 01 Sep 2003, 05:54

Yeah, I wasn't expecting him to be good or anything..

Just keen to find out a bit more about the bloke/any stories about him etc..

MightyWarrior · Post by **MightyWarrior** » 01 Sep 2003, 05:57

He was a pretty uninspiring Brit heavy of the 80's Chief - he seemed to be around for ever, had a few surprise wins but was involved some terrible "fights" with Funso Banjo - who was a touted prospect for a (short!) while...

I might be wrong and bennie will probably remember, but I think those Banjo fights were refered to by the late Harry Mullan as like watching two statues in action..

In other words they made Johnny Nelson look like Aaron Pryor on speed ( though he prefered coke ).

Horace Notice looked like cleaning up for awhile in the 80's - probably would've beaten Mason for instance - but was unlucky with a detached retina and retired early - drives a cab now I think...

chief · Post by **chief** » 01 Sep 2003, 05:59

Top man Mighty Warrior.. That's the sort of stuff I'm after..

If anyone has any photo's of him in action, that would make my day!!

MightyWarrior · Post by **MightyWarrior** » 01 Sep 2003, 06:07

No probs - speaking of pictures..how do you get one to appear on the signature...

Goz, how's it work??

Goz · Post by **Goz** » 01 Sep 2003, 06:14

MW - Same as it did on ESB.

Use the "[img]fullurl[/img]" command.

If the above isn't readable when you are typing your message hold the mouse pointer over the Img button and it gives you the parameters below.

MightyWarrior · Post by **MightyWarrior** » 01 Sep 2003, 06:23

Thanks Goz :)

bennie · Post by **bennie** » 01 Sep 2003, 07:59

Yeah, nice shots of Pipino. I hope he's in the top 100 punchers (which I haven't had a good look at as yet). He could do nothing but bang. He must have been the only guy in the history of boxing to win a world title without being able to jab. What a puncher!
Anyway, as to Hughroy Currie. He was an in and out heavyweight until he tied up with former world light-middleweight champion Maurice Hope in the early Eighties. Hope instilled real discipline into the sometimes lazy Londoner, took him to the States for a couple of fights and training, and got him in fantastic shape. And the results were dramatic. For a couple of years, Currie was a class heavyweight, probably fringe world class. He scored a massive upset (domestically-speaking) when he stopped the previously unbeaten Terry Lawless heavyweight Adrian Elliott in 1983. Elliott was a former double ABA champion who was looking really good as a pro, but Currie matched him all the way and then took him out in five rounds.
A fight later, Currie went to Spain and outboxed former world title challenger Alfredo Evangelista over eight rounds in Bilbao, winning a landslide decision. Evangelista was a dangerman, and had just licked Renaldo Snipes in the States. That was a really good win for Currie who had been riled at the pre-fight press conference when Evangelista took the piss out of him in Spanish, had all the press men laughing (you may remember Steve Collins getting the same reaction when he took the piss out of Eubank in Gaelic prior to their first fight).
Hughroy then had the first of his two boring fights with Funso Banjo, who was a good mate of his, and they didn't really have the hate to put up a good fight. And Banjo was a hard man to look good against anyway. Look how bad he made Greg Page and Marvis Frazier look!
Probably, Currie's best win was a crushing second round knockout of Glenn McCrory in Manchester in 1986. Lloyd Honeyghan had just got back from Atlantic City where he won the undisputed welterweight title against Don Curry and drove straight up to Oldham to see Currie fight (the two were also mates). The crowd gave Honeyghan a 20-minute standing ovation and Hughroy was inspired to flatten McCrory with a devastating left hook.
He was unlucky to run into Horace Notice twice in British and Commonwealth title fights - a really good fighter who I believe could have gone all the way but for a detatched retina. Notice stopped him in twice, but they were give and take fights up to the finish and took a lot out of Currie. He soldiered on for a few years in the late Eighties, but a one-round loss to Derek Williams signalled the end of his career.

MightyWarrior · Post by **MightyWarrior** » 01 Sep 2003, 08:07

I think I probably underated Currie - his big win over hotshot Elliot was a good one. Just can't ever forget those Bunjo fights..

Yes Cuevas is ranked quite high I think - some of his 1 or 2 round defences were something else - the poor guys looked like they'd been 15 rounds: broken jaws, eyesockets etc..I wonder what would've happened if he met Mayorga - defintely X-Rated

chief · Post by **chief** » 01 Sep 2003, 08:09

Cheers bennie..