Trevor Currie

Mimmy · Post by **Mimmy** » 25 Mar 2007, 11:52

Ive never seen any mention of this ex heavyweight champion what are your thoughts on Currie.

icejack · Post by **icejack** » 25 Mar 2007, 16:04

I take it you mean Hughroy Trevor Currie ,see him fight several times in the mid 1980,s was basically a journeyman type with reasonable power (a bit like Julius Francis) who had a short period where allegedly was trying to promote him as a possible Frank Bruno opponent. He beat the notorius spoiler Funso Banjo over 12 rounds on the undercard of Bruno v Bonecrusher but his most memorable fight was against the huge Proud Killimanjaro .This fight was shown live from cardiff on a saturday afternoon on ITV after boxing rings around Killimanjaro ,in the 10th THE AFRICAN STARTED FIGHTING LIKE A MAN POSSESED! After being decked and pushed to the floor and being covered in blood he somehow managed to last till the bell and get the descision.

Would rate him as tougher than Derek Williams but not as good a boxer.I thin he also beat world title challenger Alfredo Evangelista in spain.He was decent.

icejack · Post by **icejack** » 26 Mar 2007, 06:08

My memory was playing tricks on me! He actually beat Banjo over 12 rounds at Alexander Palace the fight at Wembley he lost over 10 rounds.He also easilly beat the vastly overated Glen Mccory of Sky tv fame. Untill I saw this thread I hadnt even thought of him,funny really because his fights seemed to be on tv a lot compared to others of the time,wonder what he is up to now?

icejack · Post by **icejack** » 26 Mar 2007, 08:58

Heres a post by Bennie from a few years back 2002!

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.

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As for Mccory ,whenever i here him saying where a fighter is going wrong I remember him losing his "world title" on a bodyshot against Jeff Lampkin. His first manager was Doug Bidwell who took Minter to a world title.John Westgarth derailed Glen .

overhand_right · Post by **overhand_right** » 27 Mar 2007, 07:04

icejack wrote: wonder what he is up to now?

Currie was waddling around ringside like some vast escaped ape in december at York Hall for the Howadr Eastman fight.

Although i have many of his tapes i didnt learn who this huge morass of black flesh was til a week or so later. Had i known it was Currie i would of got a shot of me and him.

He is a beast!

overhand_right · Post by **overhand_right** » 27 Mar 2007, 07:08

Oh yeah- and it was Currie who convinced Notice and Mason to lace up the gloves. Bit of b#stard luck for him because both went to beat him up in the pro ranks!!

wouter · Post by **wouter** » 27 Mar 2007, 07:31

What's the deal with his first name... is it Trevor or Hughroy?

overhand_right · Post by **overhand_right** » 28 Mar 2007, 09:55

Its Trevor Hughroy Currie on all the broadcasts...

Damn i wish we had this convo back in November, i coulda just asked him in person!! :x

funso banjo baby · Post by **funso banjo baby** » 31 Mar 2007, 06:38

had 2 fights with banjo...first for the southern area i think..on the bonecrusher bill...... dull fight....wading in glue.....

my dad went for a hamburger a pint and a cigarette during round 4 ..when he came back 10 mins later it was still the 4th round !!!!!

alexandra return was for the british title...this time currie took it.

he defended against notice.....live from the isle of man !!!!!

do u remember ..it was supposed to be the new home of british heavyweight boxing ?

overhand_right · Post by **overhand_right** » 02 Apr 2007, 08:37

Mr Funso, did you ever see Banjo fight Page. Think it was on a JB Williamson undercard in London, possibly v Andries.

1986, dunno if it was televised but Banjo was DQd for repeated dirty fighting.

funso banjo baby · Post by **funso banjo baby** » 03 Apr 2007, 07:13

never saw. it was slated in boxing news....a dire affair.... record breaking : combined heaviest weight in a british ring

page broke the wooden steps on entry to the ring.