Curry has better skills and he deserves to be favored. But I do think Trinidad is live with a good chance of taking him out late if Curry gets careless.
I think if Curry brings the same type of discipline he brought to the Starling rematch into a fight with Trinidad, he bamboozles him, in all honesty. He wins BIG Puerto Rock is right, if Curry is a bit careless, Trinidad could start getting the punches home late... even then, though, I think he'd need some luck to get a stop.
And who's best fighter Tito BEAT at 147? (the DLH gift doesn't count). Beating a shot to shit Whitaker doesn't count either. The best fighter Curry ever beat was Starling, who's by FAARRRRR better than anyone Tito beat at Welter. And Milton McCrory was a helluva lot better than say, Oba Carr. Hell, Colin Jones was better than Campas. Curry's welterweight resume shits on Tito's.
Tito simply isn't capable of beating someone as good as Curry, he just isn't. He was not an elite fighter, he was an overhyped, 1 dimensional plodding puncher, with good punching technique and left hook. Curry dominates him 12-0.
Tito punched wider that the Titanic's turning circle. The guy was really terrible at a lot of things. He had height, reach, leverage and two-handed power, but lacked a lot of other things. His performance vs Oscar was terrible, awful, for 9 rounds. Only the faggit cross-dresser getting tired saved him.
Wrong question. It's not who did Tito beat at 147? It is who was Tito stopped by at 147lbs that was better than Lloyd Honeyghan? ::
Yeah, the problem with that is this mythical matchup is both at their best, not the weight drained version that lost to Honeyghan.
True. I still believe Trinidad would have beaten both of those guys, though. But I agree that Curry is on another level in terms of talent and skill than even those guys that Trinidad did not face.
Trinidad beating Milton McCrory (assuming he did so legitimately and not DLH style) would be his best welterweight victory by several light years
Tito would have KO'd McCrory. It took a higher calibre fighter than McCrory to beat Tito. However, he wouldn't have obliterated Milton in 2 the way Curry did. Tito simply didn't have the type of speed Curry had.
That much better than Carr, Whitaker and Blocker? Besides I know y'all don't like it when I do this...but you MUST consider Tito's wins over Vargas and Joppy when evaluating him as a Welterweight, even though those fights were above Welter. For him to KO Middleweights, it shows that at Welterweight his power was beastly. McCrory was brittle like china.
Blocker and Whitaker were both shot to shit when Tito got to them. Hell, Norris destroyed Blocker in 2 before Tito did. And McCrory was a better fighter than Carr. And nobody is disputing Tito had a power edge over Curry. Tito is easily a top 5 all time puncher at 147. But other than power, there's nothing else he had over a prime Curry.
And yet Curry was the only fighter to dispose of McCrory in that fashion. Somehow this "brittle" fighter was able to last into the later rounds against a great champ like McCallum at a higher weight. Exaggeration, as usual, from you. Your "McCrory was brittle like China", which you only say to discredit Curry in your ongoing "I hate the 80's" agenda, rings as hollow as "Mugabi was tiny" or any of the many other misrepresentations you have tried to sell as the truth over the years.
Yep. A prime McCrory was a better fighter than any of those fighters at the time Tito fought them. It's still funny to see you just pull names off of a fighter's resume on BoxRec, no matter where those names were in their careers at that point, and try to make a "point".
Shit happens in boxing. Brittle guys sometimes survive long against good guys. Can't think of examples off the top of my head...but I will if pressed.
Like fragile Cotto going 12 with Mayweather after getting beaten up brutally by Margarito and Pacquiao?
