The thing about super heavyweight with skills.

Ali And Holmes were two master boxers with great speed and skills. In the case of Holmes, he could infight too.

Yet as great as their jabs and solid right hands were, each was a little vulnerable to shorter swarming pressure fighters.

The game has changed. Modern super heavyweights with skills, such as Bowe, Lewis, and Klitschko also have top jobs, however, the separate themselves from past greats as they are taller, have a longer reach in general, and much more power in their right hands.

This makes it even harder on the shorter pressure fighters to land his best as he needs to navigate through a longer danger zone, take harder blows, and avoid being clinched by a much heavier man bearing his weight down on him.

As Mike Tyson once said, everyone has a plan until they get hit. But if you're giving up a lot of inches and weight, you really don't have much of a plan B vs longer range artillery and clamp down clinching. The much smaller man is going to need power first. Then a tough chin and stamina in abundance to win. A good heart is also needed.

 

Holyfield is a rare case, and he's 1-4 vs. Lewis and Bowe on fair score cards.

Sure he won one time vs Bowe and it was a very close fight and one that had a time stoppage of 16+ minutes allowing Holyfield ( who was often gassed ) time to completely re-fuel. Bowe had the worst defense of a lot of super heavies with skills, and Manny Stewart was in his corner.

Moving in and out in the lower divisions is most often done vs opponents their size.

 

Rahman, Brewster and McCall were not small men, and none of them won on points. Anyone can be knocked out. Rahman, McCall, and Brewster despite their flaws could punch!

The taller men Tyson beat were not super heavyweights with skill. Certainly not in Lewis or Wlad's class. Tucker was the closest thing, and he hurt his hand early in the fight, after starting out well.

The best big guys Tyson fought were Bruno, Douglas, and Lewis, and he struggled in all three matches.

Frazier never beat one good big guy with skill who can punch....ever.

 

Not on that night, he was fat and uninterested.

 

McCall was 238 pounds with an 82" reach, and was heavier than Lewis for that fight!

Rhaman was 236 pounds, with an 82" reach. Lewis was heavier.

So both

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Foreman was 42 years old, slow and never very skilled.

Bruno came close to upsetting Tyson. He had Tyson rocked and hurt.

If the examples you are using are from the 1980's and 1990's and 25-35 years have passed, it pretty much supports what I am saying.