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Donald Curry (born September 7, 1961) was a Fort
Worth fighter, called the 'Lone Star Cobra'.

Curry made the 1980 United States Olympic
Games|Olympic team, but could not compete due to
the U.S. boycott.  He then started his pro career
and rose to superstardom rather quickly, putting
together an undefeated streak that culminated in a
15-round points win over Jun-Suk Hwang of South
Korea in 1983, giving Curry the then-vacant World
Boxing Association|WBA welterweight title.  He
then defended this belt mostly by KO or TKO,
against the likes of Nino LaRocca, Elio Diaz,
Roger Stafford (whom he beat within a round), and
Colin Jones.  Also included in this stretch was a
1984 points win over the future world champion
Marlon Starling to claim the division's new IBF
title, while retaining the WBA title.

Curry was riding on top of the boxing world in
December 1985, when he added the World Boxing
Council|WBC title to his chest of laurels by
beating Milton McCrory in the second round.  He
then defended the undisputed (WBA/WBC/IBF) title
once with a second-round stoppage of Eduardo
Rodriguez before his hometown fans in March of
1986, but his status as world Welterweight
champion would last only six more months as United
Kingdom|Briton Lloyd Honeyghan came to Atlantic
City, New Jersey to beat Curry by stopping the
defending champion on cuts (considered a knockout
win) after the sixth round.

After winning two fights at junior middleweight
against Tony Montgomery and Carlos Santos in early
1987 (both interestingly ending in fifth-round
disqualifications due to headbutts on the part of
Curry's opponents), Curry had a chance to vault
himself back into titlist status in July of that
year, this time at the Jr. Middleweight division. 
His opponent was Mike McCallum, who held the
division's WBA world crown.  Curry had his moments
early on, but in the fourth round, a left cross
from McCallum sent Curry reeling to the canvas and
Donald could not beat the 10 second count.

After a couple more wins, Curry did win another
title, the WBC junior middleweight title, in July
1988, stopping Gianfranco Rosi of Italy on cuts in
the tenth round.  His junior middleweight
championship lasted even shorter than that of his
welterweight days, however, when he was beaten by
Rene Jacquot of France in February of 1989, losing
a 12-round decision (and thus the title) in his
first defence.

Curry continued to fight, and had two more stabs
at a title, but came up on the short end both
times (more specifically, by knockout).  IBF
Middleweight champion Michael Nunn took him out in
the tenth round in Paris, France|Paris in October
1990, and up-and-coming Terry Norris, who defended
his WBC Junior Middleweight title against Curry,
beat him in eight frames in Palm Springs,
California|Palm Springs in June of 1991.  After
that, Curry spent most of his energies training
fighters rather than fighting himself.

When Donald's brother, Bruce Curry, beat Leroy
Haley by a twelve round unanimous decision on May
18, 1983 at Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas, Donald
and Bruce Curry became the first pair of siblings
in the history of boxing to hold world titles at
the same time.

==External links==
* http://www.boxingpress.de/records/CURRY.HTM
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