I know am stealing this from somebody who started a thread on George Foreman's top 10 wins. I'm just curious to see a list of Larry Holmes top ten wins
1. Ken Norton 2. Tim Witherspoon 3. Ray Mercer 4. Gerry Cooney 5. James Smith 6. Earnie Shavers 7. Carl Williams 8. Mike Weaver 9. Trevor Berbick 10. Muhammad Ali (Only because of the name)
Just because Mercer is the best win of Holmes' "second career" I would trade Mercer and Witherspoon. And instead of Muhammad Ali, Marvis Frazier could come in, who has the already mentioned Smith in his resume.
Ken Norton Earnie Shavers 1 Earnie Shavers 2 Gerry Cooney Ray Mercer Trevor Berbick Tim Witherspoon Mike Weaver 1 Bonecrusher Smith Leon Spinks No particular order. People leave out Shavers 1, but it may have been Larry's most dominant performance, other than against Leon. Earnie was coming off the Ali fight. A lot people thought Earnie won the Ali fight. He was highly ranked at the time (#3, I believe). Holmes won every second of that fight. And people forget the Leon Spinks fight, but Leon was back to form heading in to that fight. Leon had just stopped the #1 contender Bernardo Mercado and looked damn good doing so. Leon was the #2 contender behind Cooney. Holmes-Leon was a live fight. People were excited about it. But Leon talked crap to Diane Holmes before the fight, and Larry was out for blood. Larry hated Leon. And he beat the hell out of him.
1. Cooney 2. Norton 3. Shavers 1 4. Mercer 5. Witherspoon 6. Shavers 2 7. Berbick 8. Williams 9. Weaver 10. Smith
Holmes didn’t have a lot of nice things to say about Leon in his book he said the animosity started with LS disrespecting Joe Louis at an event I forget which one.
