Super retrospective on Honeyghan v Breland

[dondada]

Excellent piece.

http://news.boxrec.com/news/2012/saturd ... -honeyghan

I used to love the Raggamuffin Man. I watched this on the box and 'taped' it too. Was going loco when the Honey Monster gave him the old Aaron Pryor fist just before the bell.

Then...ouch. A sad night.

[mickey1975]

the guy Henry boxed was very durable. I dread to think what he would have been like with the lemmings.

[MightyWarrior]

Really good article, brought back some memories.

I was a massive Honeyghan fan too, but even I knew he had no chance against Breland. There was no coming back from that career ending beating Starling dished out.
A few of my mates thought he'd trounce Breland though, and were horrified when they saw Lloyd's miserable performance, and pretty scathing about the whole thing after - to them it looked like the ragamuffin man had took the money and run, but really, his legs were gone and he just refused to believe it until Breland started landing.

Still, what a great fighter for the UK Lloyd was. Balls of steel to go over there and up-end Don Curry like that

[gasman]

Excellent piece.

http://news.boxrec.com/news/2012/saturd ... -honeyghan

I used to love the Raggamuffin Man. I watched this on the box and 'taped' it too. Was going loco when the Honey Monster gave him the old Aaron Pryor fist just before the bell.

Then...ouch. A sad night.

I remember that well. I think the commentator said the fist salute to Breland prior to the first round was some kind of African warrior salute. Then it was an anti-climax when he got flattened.

[stujones]

Didn't know enough about Breland to give a solid prediction at aged 10 - but hindsight is a wonderful thing I guess. Watching Honeyghan vs Starling recently, he looked like a shot fighter at the start of that fight, let alone what the beating he took that night did for him.

Honeyghan showed, even years down the line that he was still capable at domestic title level, just his world ambitions were over. I think if Honeyghan needed any redemption (he didn't in my eyes) for his performance against Breland... then his brave brave brave effort against Pazienza - in which he was hopelessly outgunned by an underated fighter gave him that redemption. No one could shout "what a load of rubbish" at Honeyghan that night.

[Twinkle Toes]

Yeah I always thought his legs didn't look right in the Starling fight - The Breland fight was painful to watch, interesting to read that Andy Till was getting the better of him in sparring.

His team must have known that he was in for a painful night.

Good article, enjoyed reading it.

[JWP]

i was there that night, quite a ruckus after the fight everyone charging off to the ticket office to see if they could get their money back.

dissapointing though that was i remember seeing lloyd some years later being brought in as an opponent on the benn/wharton undercard, great big lad with a knock out record he fought, lloyd just beat him up and felled him like a tree, hilarious.

[fatcity69]

Good article. I always thought Honeyghan was never the same fighter after the Starling fight and he also just wasnt 'right' against Starling. He seemed to have a kamakazie attitude against Starling and fought totally the wrong fight against such a dangerous counterpuncher like Starling. I was frankly disgusted with those who boooed Lloyd and complained after his fight with Breland... shows the fickleness of the public even with one of the best boxers England has ever produced...

[milpool]

I remember it well, watched it at home and couldn't believe that a once great fighter could succumb so easily.
I remember when he did the old pointing of his arm I said to myself that he wasn't going to be winning. Something told me that it was all bravado and that Honeyghan himself knew he didn't stand a chance.

I was gutted as I remember meeting him when he was in his prime, I got his autograph and had a photo taken, I was only about 12/13 at the time so he was obvioulsy one of my favourites.

[Glyn Leach]

Best web article I've read in a good while. Literate, intelligent and colourful, well done to the lad - and no, not just cos I get a namecheck.

[Syntax Error]

Excellent piece.

http://news.boxrec.com/news/2012/saturd ... -honeyghan

I used to love the Raggamuffin Man. I watched this on the box and 'taped' it too. Was going loco when the Honey Monster gave him the old Aaron Pryor fist just before the bell.

Then...ouch. A sad night.

Great article & great memories.

I must admit, I didn't like Breland back then; even though I knew how good he was, I didn't like how the ref tried to give him every advantage in one of his fights against Starling.

All that aside, as desperate as I was for Honeyghan to win, I just didn't think he had the tools to beat Breland, but I was surprised at how easy it was for Breland to beat Honeyghan down though.

[Old bones Ian]

well written article, thanks. One of those fights that was really painful to watch, from seeing Honeyghan in his prime to watching him get stopped like that wasn't good.