The British lost generation of heavyweights
When looking back on British heavyweights of the 80s it’s difficult to find a happy ending, writes Steve Bunce
TREVOR HUGHROY CURRIE was part of Britain’s very own generation of lost heavyweight champions from the Eighties.
There was the original fabled gang of fighting brothers, dubbed the Lost Generation by Tim Witherspoon; they reigned as heavyweight champions for about ten years, were violent, tragic and talented fighters at the same time.
The British version skipped the prison stays, assaults and crack cocaine, but they still have a story to tell. And not all the stories have a happy ending and few of the fights were memorable for the right reasons.