Honey Nasty: The Night Lloyd Honeyghan Ruined Donald Curry
Posted: 21 Dec 2018, 00:45
“The brief, harsh dramas that change the lives of fighters are often enacted in memorably peculiar places,” as Hugh McIlvanney once wrote. So it was for Donald Curry, when a little-known welterweight from South London via Jamaica left him in bloody tatters in the “jarringly inappropriate” setting of the Circus Maximus Showroom in Atlantic City in September 1986. Back then only Marvin Hagler was considered a better fighter than Curry, whose domineering knockout of Milton McCrory in 1985 had sent him shooting towards stardom. Then a louche polyamorist with a sonorous name reduced him to nothing.
Lloyd Honeyghan’s philandering had already made him the subject of tabloid intrigue, although nothing could prepare him for what was to come. Later he would be tabloid fodder, the subject of stings and sanctimony and confected rage. Then he was just a 6-1 underdog whose insouciant manner seemed hardly well-earned. “More interesting than endearing,” as McIlvanney wrote, no one gave Honeyghan a chance against Curry. The Guardian called him a “no-hoper,” “too inexperienced to take on a fighter as formidable” as the “Lone Star Cobra.” The veteran Welsh fighter Colin Jones was supposed to have said that Honeyghan risked getting killed. To almost all ears, his manager Mickey Duff’s assertion that Curry would face “the toughest fight he’s ever had in his whole career” rang wildly untrue.
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Lloyd Honeyghan’s philandering had already made him the subject of tabloid intrigue, although nothing could prepare him for what was to come. Later he would be tabloid fodder, the subject of stings and sanctimony and confected rage. Then he was just a 6-1 underdog whose insouciant manner seemed hardly well-earned. “More interesting than endearing,” as McIlvanney wrote, no one gave Honeyghan a chance against Curry. The Guardian called him a “no-hoper,” “too inexperienced to take on a fighter as formidable” as the “Lone Star Cobra.” The veteran Welsh fighter Colin Jones was supposed to have said that Honeyghan risked getting killed. To almost all ears, his manager Mickey Duff’s assertion that Curry would face “the toughest fight he’s ever had in his whole career” rang wildly untrue.
https://hannibalboxing.com/honey-nasty- ... ald-curry/