Donald Curry

This article is about boxer Donald Curry. For the farmer, businessman and life peer, see Donald Curry, Baron Curry of Kirkharle ; for the shipowner and politician, see Donald Currie .

Donald Curry
Data
Birth Name	Donald Sample
Weight class	Welterweight
nationality	US-american
birthday	September 7, 1961
place of birth	Fort Worth
style	Left delivery
size	1.79 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	40
Victories	34
Knockout victories	25th
Defeats	6th

Donald Curry (* 7. September 1961 in Fort Worth , Texas , as Donald Sample ) is a retired American boxer.

Professional career

After the successful amateur was prevented by the Olympic boycott of the USA in 1980 from taking part in the Olympic Games in Moscow , he turned professional that same year.

In the build-up phase in 1982 he beat the undefeated Marlon Starling , who never lost to a knockout in his career . In the next fight he won the vacant WBA world title in 1983 ; a little later he also took the title of the newly founded IBF . Nino LaRocca and Welsh Colin Jones were very respected opponents, whom he was able to defeat prematurely in the following championships, he beat Starling a second time on points.

In 1983 and 1984, his older brother Bruce Curry was also the WBC light welterweight title holder .

On December 6, 1985, he met the undefeated WBC world champion Milton McCrory in a unification fight and won by knockout in the second round. But nine months later he was sensationally defeated by a Lloyd Honeyghan boxing unleashed prematurely. He was never the same again. After this defeat, he rose to the light middleweight division.

On July 18, 1987 he got against WBA world champion Mike McCallum the chance to win a world title in this weight class. However, he lost by knockout in the fifth round. A year later, in July 1988, he finally won the WBC title of the Italian Gianfranco Rosi , but was only able to hold it for seven months and lost it to French René Jacquot in his first title defense .

Then he rose again to a weight class and tried on October 18, 1990 the middleweight title after the IBF version of the unbeaten Michael Nunn to win, but lost again by knockout in the tenth round. Then, thanks to his reputation, he still got another chance to fight for the WBC light middleweight title now held by Terry Norris, but failed in this title fight on June 1, 1991 again by knockout in the eighth round; then he resigned. In 1997 he completed two last fights without success.

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predecessor	Office	successor
Sugar Ray Leonard	Welterweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) February 13, 1983 - September 27, 1986	Lloyd Honeyghan
-	Welterweight Boxing Champion ( IBF ) February 4, 1984 - September 27, 1986	Lloyd Honeyghan
Milton McCrory	Welterweight Boxing Champion ( WBC ) December 6, 1985 - September 27, 1986	Lloyd Honeyghan