Honeyghan became only the second British boxer in history to regain a world title when he knocked Vaca out in a return fight, the first being Ted " Kid " Lewis earlier in the 20th century.

Curry was such a prohibitive favorite that there wasn't a betting line on the fight, but Honeyghan came into the fight with great confidence.

" Honeyghan manhandled Curry in rounds five and six.

In Hatcher's next-and last-chance at a world crown, he lost by knockout in 45 seconds to Lloyd Honeyghan in August 1987, with Honeyghan's WBC and IBF welterweight belts being at stake.

* March 29-Lloyd Honeyghan recovers the WBC world Welterweight championship with a third round knockout of Jorge Vaca in their rematch at London.

Two ringside physicians examined the cut after the sixth round and told the referee to stop the fight, giving Honeyghan a TKO victory.

* October 28-Jorge Vaca dethrones WBC world Welterweight champion Lloyd Honeyghan with a controversial eighth round technical decision in London.

Curry's next defense of the title was against London-based Jamaican Lloyd Honeyghan on September 27, 1986 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

In his second defence of the title, Honeyghan defeated American Maurice Blocker on points.

Stracey currently does autograph and private speaking tours with friends and fellow former world champions Alan Minter, Lloyd Honeyghan, Jim Watt and John Conteh, among others.

Honeyghan disagreed with the WBA's rules that allowed fights to take place in apartheid South Africa, so he publicly dumped the WBA welterweight belt into a London trash bin soon after winning it, relinquishing the title rather than defending it against South African Harold Volbrecht.

Honeyghan adopted the title " ragamuffin " or " Ragamuffin Man " with relish.

By this time Honeyghan was past his best, having lost the WBC title to Marlon Starling in 1989, and was stopped by Breland in 3 rounds after being knocked down 6 times.

Honeyghan was 27-0 and ranked # 1 by the WBC.

After losing to Honeyghan, Hatcher continued to fight.

The controversy was that a point deducted to Honeyghan by the referee that night proved to be the margin of difference.

Lloyd Honeyghan ( born 22 April 1960 ) is a retired British boxer.

Honeyghan claimed to be weight-weakened, but was probably suffering from the effects of the punishment he had taken in the Starling fight.

Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.

Washington was not involved in any other major fighting on the expedition, and the British scored a major strategic victory, gaining control of the Ohio Valley, when the French abandoned the fort.

In 1938, Greenberg led the league in runs scored ( 144 ) and at-bats per home run ( 9. 6 ), tied for the AL lead in walks ( 119 ), was second in RBIs ( 146 ), slugging percentage (. 683 ), and total bases ( 380 ), and third in OBP (. 438 ) and set a still-standing major league record of 39 homers in his home park, the newly reconfigured Briggs Stadium.

Lieutenant Nikolaos Votsis scored a major success for Greek morale on 31 October: he sailed his torpedo boat No. 11, under the cover of night, into the harbor of Thessaloniki, sank the old Ottoman ironclad battleship Feth-i Bülend and escaped unharmed.

The British Royal Navy scored a major victory over France in 1782 at the Battle of the Saintes and France finished the war with huge debts and the minor gain of the island of Tobago.

" With the help of record producers Herb Alpert and Lou Adler, Jan and Dean scored a No. 10 hit with " Baby Talk " ( 1959 ), their first song to contain a few of the soon to be famous elements that became associated with surf ( close vocal harmonies, selective use of major and minor chords, falsetto doo-wop singing ) and then scored a series of hits over the next couple of years.

In 1974, Bench led the league with 129 RBI and scored 108 runs, becoming only the fourth catcher in major league history with 100 or more runs and RBI in the same season.

On 13 February 1976, the Argentine Army scored a major success when the 14th Airborne Infantry Regiment ambushed the 65-strong Montoneros Jungle Company, in an action near the town of Cadillal in Tucumán province.

In June, Owain scored his first major victory in the field at Mynydd Hyddgen on Pumlumon.

One of Denver's new major additions was rookie running back Bobby Humphrey, who rushed for 1, 151 yards, caught 22 passes for 156 yards, and scored 8 touchdowns.

They have undertaken seven major world tours and scored multiple films.

In 1199, Tamar's armies scored another major victory when two brothers, Zak ' are and Ivane Mkhargrdzeli, dislodged the Shaddadid dynasty from Ani, the erstwhile capital of the Armenian kingdom, and received it from the queen as their fief.

Weir scored a major Australian hit and further international praise with his next film Gallipoli ( 1981 ).

The Fatimids, under the governor of Damascus Manjutakin, scored a series of successes against the Hamdanids and their Byzantine allies, including a major victory against the doux of Antioch, Michael Bourtzes, at the Battle of the Orontes in September 994.

Three minutes before the end of extra time, Ove Kindvall scored Feijenoord's winning goal to make them the first Dutch team to claim a major European trophy.

Two years later, Ravel completed his Rapsodie espagnole, his first major " Spanish " piece, written first for piano four hands and then scored for orchestra.

In 2006, Kirsten Gillibrand ( D-Hudson ) scored a major upset, unseating four-term incumbent Republican Congressman John Sweeney ( R-Troy ).

The only major competitive match to be decided by a silver goal was the semi-final match of Euro 2004 between Greece and the Czech Republic, when Traianos Dellas scored for Greece after a corner kick in the last two seconds of the first period of extra time.

Its activists scored a major victory in 2003 when the Ontario Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling which made same-sex marriage legal in Ontario, the first jurisdiction in North America to do so.

She finally scored a major box-office hit as Sukie Ridgemont in the 1987 adaptation of John Updike's novel The Witches of Eastwick, alongside Jack Nicholson, Cher and Susan Sarandon.

The conspirators scored a major coup in early July when they managed to initiate Erwin Rommel, the famed " Desert Fox ", into their ranks.

He holds the major league records for career stolen bases, runs scored, unintentional walks and leadoff home runs.

Keyboard duties were taken over by highly-rated singer-keyboardist Paul Carrack, a former member of British soul-pop band Ace, who scored a major international hit with the song " How Long.