Mike Tyson had a better career than Larry Holmes.

The fights were there for King to make.

 

Yes, wasn’t HBO doing a heavyweight tournament of sorts? Like pushing for a unified champion?

 

Yes.

The fights were there to be made.

But it wasn’t like that in the early 80’s.

 

A Rooney trained version of Mike would have destroyed Hitler and Churchill on the same night.

I’m not sure about a post prison version though.

 

Holmes gave Ernie Shavers a rematch after boxing his ears off the first bout. It almost cost him. Beat him twice though.

 

Holmes is comfortably a top 5 heavyweight alltime. He simply accomplished more than Tyson. I believe Tyson belongs in the top 10.

Being a seek and destroy type of fighter i think Mike was a more sensational performer than Holmes. Larry was the one with his hand raised more often over a longer time frame against slightly better opposition.

That is the reason threads like this get made. Emotion. The way Tyson fought when he was at his best was sensational. Larry Holmes jabbing Trevor Berbick's head off might not trigger that type of lasting memory.

 

So Wlad wasn't undsiputed either. You can't have one without the other.

 

Then Holmes was undisputed from July to October of 1979 as he was the only champion

 

I'm following YOUR logic. And by the logic presented in your latest post, Holmes was undisputed from July to October of 1979.

I'm following the consensus that Holmes could be called undisputed from the Ali fight.

 

Wlad had multiple points in his career when he could have established the lineage: Byrd fight, Ibragimov fight, Chagaev fight, Haye fight, Povetkin fight, Vitali's reitrement and Pulev fight.

Holmes had 3 points in his career that he could have established or take over the lineage: when Weaver beat Tate for the WBA belt - The Ring crowned him the champ at that point, the Ali fight and the Cooney fight, since he was the highest ranked opponent he hadn't yet beaten.

Both guys are proper lineal champions and both guys were seen as undisputed at some point of their careers. That's all we need to know.