Modern Classics: McCallum-Curry

By: Sean CroseCall it the shot heard round the boxing world. With a single punch, the widely unknown, masterfully skilled Mike McCallum knocked out former welterweight kingpin Donald Curry on a summer night in 1987, rattling a public that saw Curry as being on the comeback trail. Not that McCallum-Curry was supposed to be a walk in the park for the Texan. It's just that Curry was a true big name who, after encountering a bump in the road when he faced Lloyd Honeyghan less than two years earlier,