When was Holyfield in his prime?

87 to early 90s. He definetly wasn't in his prime in the third Bowe fight & against Tyson.

 

Stunning work.

 

Nonsense.

Holyfield was 210 pounds in his two previous fights to the first Bowe fight, when he fought Bert Cooper and Larry Holmes.

Lou Duva thought that Holyfield should try to rely on superior speed for the fight against Bowe, so Holyfield came in at 205 pounds(his lightest weight in over 4 years).

Holyfield obviously thought this was a dumbarse strategy by Duva after the fight, no doubt because he would have felt weak and not strong enough to slug with Bowe, so for the 2nd Bowe fight, Holyfield came in at 217 pounds, 12 pounds heavier than he was for the first Bowe fight, and only 7 pounds heavier than the fight immediately prior to Bowe I, when he fought Holmes.

Your 20 pounds in one year is just crap.

 

I would have thought you were joking, but then I noticed your avatar. atsch

 

hasn't hit his prime yet...

 

Before he won the title and coming up from Cruiserweight as a number one WBC and WBA contender. He beat Michael Dokes after stopping both Pinklon Thomas and James Tillis, and that win in 1989 was for the WBC Continental Americas Title... With just 206 pounds, you could sense nobody could have beaten Holyfield at that time, not James Buster Douglas when they met in Oct 1990, not George Foreman when he made his first undisputed title defense in April 1991, not Riddick Bowe if they had fought before November 1992 and not surely Mike Tyson or Lennox Lewis had they have one not been encarcerated or the other presented as an opponent as early as in 1993. See the Dokes fight - too much heart, too strong, too much of a complete athlete.

 

No.

No version of Holyfield beats a prime Lennox. Lennox was robbed in the first fight, that should never have been scored a draw and then beat him in the second fight.

 

As a boxer, 88. As a HW, 96.

 

The second fight was a lot closer than the first fight incidentally, probably to make up for the terrible scoring in the first. Either way, if Evander is capable of boxing that well against him outside of his prime, I don't think it's absurd to suggest he could've fared even better and won in his prime. Then again I've always found Lennox to be quite a bit overrated.

 

James "Buster" Douglas fight

 

I'd say going into the Bowe trilogy

 

When he KO'D dokes...

Or the ko of Douglas..

RIGHT AROUND 89-90...

He was starting to slip when he almost was ko'd by Cooper of all people...

 

What a warrior.


Who was he fighting @ :35? That was a great exchange.

 

Seamus McDonagh

 

Thanks for that highlight, an incredibly well edited package with great music to match.