Can You See Any Other Lightheavy s Beating Holmes?

Careful John, some poster might interject Canelo Alvarez into your post.. Ha Ha.

 

That's an interesting question actually. What happens when neither guy can make weight? Why wasn't the fight just recorded as a cruiserweight bout?

 

It's just mislabelled on your page i'd say. Perhaps both were supposed to come in under but i'd think not as holyfield didn't hit 175 in any subsequent bouts so it's not as if he tried to campaign there. The fight wasn't for any title or anything for their to be any strictness on weight.

There's a chance they were meant to come in under but given they didn't the fight wasn't at light heavyweight/175. TV billed it as light heavyweight.

Looking deeper they actually talk about the weights at 2.40 and say something indicating they should have come in at 175 as they mention the limit. Maybe you can decipher the exact comment better than i can as it's hard to pick up. At any rate they were overweight.

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Around 5:00, the commentator talks about Spinks moving up to heavyweight and winning championships, says "and I predict this for Holyfield". Well called.

 

He certainly wasn't wrong.

 

Good scrap. Byarm was game. When Holyfield decided to box (not enough) , he took over. I guess Holyfield was too impatient to box, bell to bell. He had some surprisingly Clay-like stuff going on, when he decided to box.

 

Holyfield could definitely box when he wanted to. Out of shape Buster or not Holyfield showed some nice stuff in their short clash.

 

Charles for me has a chance.