5 Fav Larry Holmes fights?

RulesMakeItInteresting · Jun 20, 2021

Lenny said: ↑

I was in a hotel room drinking too many beers when the he lost to Spinks #1. Completely dumbfounded as to why he did not just hunt him down,,,I remember the announcers saying that he was not "pulling the trigger:. Anyways----the second fight was a travesty. He won that fight and everyone knows it. What happened during that brief period? The Holmes of the early 90s was so much better. Burnout? Did he get tired of fighting the young guys after Witherspoon? Name me a heavy who was so good-----maybe not great---for so long. Someone said on this post earlier-----he simply was a great fighter. Let the people talk..... No one with the exception of Ali and Foreman on a good day beats him. too tough, too durable. You cannot knock him out. Outpoint him? Peace everyone
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Switch the name Foreman with Joe Louis and I feel this post.

RulesMakeItInteresting · Jun 20, 2021

Eddie Ezzard said: ↑

I would have thought Larry being down against Snipes, the trouble he was in against Witherspoon and Weaver compared to Ali surviving the bombs of Foreman, Liston, Lyle seemingly unshaken edges it towards Ali.

Plus their relative reactions to being hit by Shavers. Fair enough, Earnie got Larry on the button but that was prime Holmes. Ali was 35, probably ill and had taken far more punishment during the fight when Earnie really nailed him in the 14th and he seemed to take it better. It does all point to Ali but not having Ali's chin is no sleight.

The Tyson kayo doesn't really factor in evaluating Larry. He was rusty, out of shape and just after the cash. That said, even prime Larry would have been in trouble if he had taken the bombs Tyson was throwing. But that's a big if.
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Weaver had Tyson-level power, Cooney had Foreman-level power in the hook. He took many shots flush from them. Stopped them both.

He just didn't see the Snipes right, to me that's obvious in the footage.

surfinghb · Jun 21, 2021

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