Holmes and Right handed punchers

Not Tyson

 

Mike Spinks is a good answer.

 

Well 68 guys did not get away from Earnie. That aside, come on Bummy ..

Holmes defeated Earnie Shavers, Ken Norton, Mike Weaver, Tim Witherspoon, Trevor Berbick, Bonecrusher Smith, Ray Mercer and fought competitive fights well past forty against Evander Holyfield and Oliver McCall .. sixty nine fights, stopped once against a prime Tyson a bout he was poorly prepared for .. the Tyson fight aside he never did not hit the floor in twenty one years , from 1981 to 2002 ..

If you want to split hairs, you can do it against any fighter .. Holmes was an exceptional heavyweight champion and his record proves it .. make your case about his weakness and I'll return serve with like kind...

 

Bummy, I've often been curious about if the Coetzee fight had been made, if a "bionic right" hand would have found it's way to Holmes'chin.

 

Coetzee beat no one in his career but a drugged out Mike Dokes ..

He was diced up by John Tate

He was KO'ed by Mike Weaver

He drew w Pinklon Thomas

He was destroyed by Page.

He was destroyed by Bruno.

He made his career by KOing a near amateur in Leon Spinks on national TV after Spinks lost to Ali and did not have any significant wins in his whole career but Dokes .. if you think this one dimensional, one armed fighter was beating Holmes that's a hell of a long shot ..

 

I didn't suggest that he would have beaten Holmes...I merely speculated on what would have happened if one of his right hands connected. If Snipes could deck Holmes, Coetzee certainly could have...he had a better right than Snipes.

 

He's very fortunate he lost to Bobick when he did. Stevenson and his big right hand was the next fight. A bad loss there and just what way does that pro career go? That easily could have made for 3 bad ko defeats---2 to Wells and a Stevenson. That's an awful lot to recover and rebound from.

Speaking of Wells, it his his right hook that got him and not the southpaw's left. A southpaw with a nasty right hook is a problem for anyone.

 

Yeah you guys are right. He really turned out to be a bust as a pro. :nut

 

I think Greg would have decked Larry, but he definitley would have had to been in shape.And when he decked Holmes, Holmes would be in very serious trouble.

 

Holmes had a weakness for getting hit with rights. But its not something that was unmanageable. He survived the best right handed fighters he ever faced with the exception of one whom he met at 38 years of age and after two years in retirement.

 

That would give say....Max Schmeling a pretty good shot at Holmes, wouldn't it? I would say Baer and Johansson as well, but Schmeling's right, though not singularly as lethal as the other two I mentioned, had an educated, more strategic delivery.