picture of larry holmes and nick wells

I think the last punch Tyson landed against Holmes was the right hook

 

yeah, well managerial disputes aside wells was average as a pro, holmes is the atg, stop giving wells praise for being a failure ffs

 

Holmes was an odd shaped heavyweight.

 

You're biased. I just think there's been a fair few threads about someone recently, who, apart from being a posters Father, would not warrant the space otherwise.

 

Kolcade your Wells's son aint ya? i think you mentioned before

its good to have you on here, you do post alotta threads on him but its interesting and you have informed me about him and i knew nothing of him before

 

How did Holmes end up fighting both Wells and Bobick in the Olympic Trials if he was beaten by both? Doesn't one loss eliminate a guy from the trials, or is the system different?

Thanks.

(Postscript on 7/9/09: I found the answer to this question myself. The Olympic selection process involved two consecutive tournaments, the trials and then the box-offs. Wells beat Holmes at the Olympic Trials in Fort Worth, July 1972. Bobick beat Wells in the final of these trials. This meant that Bobick and Wells were supposed to meet several weeks later, in August 1972, at West Point in the Olympic box-offs. The winner would go to Munich. Wells was sick, however, so Holmes subbed for him at West Point.)

 

I feel had Wells had the correct pro trainers outside of Texas with the right connections he would have been a force but he had to raise his son alone, I remember there were a few other top Heavys he beat at the time. If he had a charley Goldman or Freddie Brown in his corner Who Knows

 

How tall was Wells? Boxrec says 5'10", but I always thought Wells was more like 6' or 6'1". Also, does anyone have any more pictures of Wells, especially as a pro?

I saw Wells fight only once, in an amateur bout televised in the summer of 1976.

 

To be fair, I'm always interested in big hitters, amateur or pro. Sorry for flying off the handle. it's a shame Wells never got to realise his full potential.

 

I don't see any problem myself with you being interested in your father's achievements. I personally can't think of any other all-time great fighter who was ko'd twice by one man as an amateur.

I think Nick Wells in general, and certainly his ko's of Holmes, is of interest to boxing fans.

 

I agree. The Classic forum is supposed to be about boxing history, and Nick Wells was a very important part of amateur boxing in the 1970s. The Wells story has actually started to fascinate me. I'm interested in learning more about the guy now.

Kolcade: please continue to post about your father.

By the way, can anyone tell me what happened to Wells in the Mike Koranicki fight? Was the bout stopped because of cuts?