{"id":1568,"date":"2024-04-14T07:38:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T07:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2024-04-14T07:38:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T07:38:29","slug":"i-promoted-mike-tyson-and-muhammad-ali-lone-star-cobra-could-have-been-as-good-as-sugar-ray-leonard-but-never-reached-his-full-potential-vu-thuy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/i-promoted-mike-tyson-and-muhammad-ali-lone-star-cobra-could-have-been-as-good-as-sugar-ray-leonard-but-never-reached-his-full-potential-vu-thuy\/","title":{"rendered":"I \u0440romoted M\u0456ke Ty\u0455on \u0430nd Muh\u0430mm\u0430d Al\u0456, \u2018Lone St\u0430r Cobr\u0430\u2019 \u0441ould h\u0430ve been \u0430\u0455 good \u0430\u0455 Sug\u0430r R\u0430y Leon\u0430rd but never re\u0430\u0441hed h\u0456\u0455 full \u0440otent\u0456\u0430l"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Arum has promoted some of the biggest names in boxing during his 40-plus years working in the sport.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From\u00a0Mike Tyson\u00a0and\u00a0Muhammad Ali\u00a0to\u00a0Floyd Mayweather\u00a0and Oscar De La Hoya, Arum has worked with them all.<\/p>\n

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Donald Curry never lived up to expectations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One fighter, who could have been as big a star as the aforementioned but never reached his full potential was Donald Curry.<\/p>\n

‘The Lone Star Cowboy’ was a sensational amateur boxer with an impressive 400\u20134 record in the unpaid ranks.<\/p>\n

He qualified for the 1980 Moscow\u00a0Olympics\u00a0with the United States national team yet he did not get to compete at the Summer Games due to the U.S.\u00a0boycott.<\/p>\n

Instead, Curry turned over as a professional later that year and went on to win his first 25 fights.<\/p>\n

During this impressive run, he was crowned the undisputed welterweight champion of the world when he knocked out Milton McCrory at the Las Vegas Hilton in December 1985.<\/p>\n

At that time, the last man to unify all the belts at 147lb was Sugar Ray Leonard, who bested Thomas Hearns for the prestigious distinction four years prior.<\/p>\n

Arum expected Curry to go on and carve out a similar legacy to that of Leonard, however, it didn’t quite work out that way for the Texan.<\/p>\n

“The fighter that comes to mind quickly is a welterweight that I promoted who was extraordinarily talented and I thought would be a huge star but fell short, named Donald Curry,” Arum told\u00a0talkSPORT.com when asked who the biggest underachiever he promoted was.<\/p>\n

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Arum (centre) thinks Curry could have been as good as Leonard (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“I co-promoted with\u00a0Frank Warren\u00a0in the UK. He was a tremendous talent, but he never ever reached his full potential…<\/p>\n

“I thought that skill-wise he was the equal of Sugar Ray Leonard and Tommy Hearns when they were welterweights, he was enormously talented.<\/p>\n

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Legendary boxing promoter Bob Arum reveals the reason why he decided to stop promoting Mike Tyson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“But he ended up with managerial problems and business problems. And he got sidetracked and when he came back after sitting out for a while, an English fighter named Lloyd Honeygahn beat him.<\/p>\n

“That was the beginning of the end for Donald Curry.”<\/p>\n

When Curry fought Honeyghan in 1986 he was widely considered to be one of the best fighters in the world.<\/p>\n

He opened up as a massive favourite but was battered from pillar to post by the Brit before he retired on his stool at the end of the sixth round.<\/p>\n

In the lead-up to fight night, Curry’s training had been disrupted after he was kicked out of his gym by his long-time manager David Gorman.<\/p>\n

A string of legal issues followed him throughout the back end of his career and he would subsequently go on to lose six of his next 14 fights before retiring as one of boxing’s great underachievers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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