Lloyd Honeyghan (born April 22, 1960) is a retired British boxer. Born in Jamaica, he was WBC/WBA & IBF welterweight champion from 1986 to 1987. and WBC welterweight champion from 1988 to 1989. He retired from the sport in 1995 and now works as a boxing promoter.

Honeyghan stunned the boxing fraternity when he knocked out super-star Donald Curry in seven rounds on September 24 of 1986 to win the world Welterweight title. Before the fight Curry dismissed his unknown foreign opponent, asking "Who is this ragamuffin?". Honeyghan adopted the title "ragamuffin" or "Ragamuffin Man" with relish.

The fight had taken place one night after another "expert shocker", when Edwin Rosario knocked out Livingstone Bramble in two rounds to claim the WBA world Lightweight title, and one week after Honeyghan's win, Ring Magazine mentioned his victory on their "Weekend of shockers!" issue's cover. (Rosario's photo was featured on the cover of that issue). In his second defence of the title, Honeyghan defeated American Maurice Blocker on points. He then changed his box-puncher style to that of more of an out-and-out slugger to become a firm TV favourite in Europe with a series of dramatic KO wins, one of which was a 40 second blow-out of former light welterweight champion Gene 'Mad Dog' Hatcher.

Honeyghan became only the second British boxer in history to regain a world title, the first being Ted (Kid) Lewis earlier in the 20th century.

Honeyghan disagreed with the WBA's rules that allowed fights to take place in apartheid South Africa, so he publicly dumped the WBA world Welterweight belt into a London trash bin soon after winning it, relinquishing the title rather than defending it against South African Harold Volbrecht. This move would prove significant, as soon after, the WBA stopped sanctioning fights held in South Africa.
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