Donovan Ruddock or Larry Holmes?

I believe hitting the canvas brought Ruddock back to consciousness. He was out going down, and hit the canvas harder than any fighter Ive seen. I dont know if thats the case, but youve seen people come back to when they get smacked in the face, maybe thats what happen, but Ruddock had no life in him going down, its like someone dropped a mannequin out of a building.

 

Here the two are sparring in 1989, not related to the thread really, just found it interesting.

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Both impressive displays of heart and recovery, I'd say probably on par.

 

I think both of them were woken up by the canvas.

About Ruddock, it was not the only time he went down violently and got right back up as if it was nothing. For whatever reason he had a tendency to go down as if he was shot.

Had he been given the chance to finish the round, he could have probably come back from the knockdown. Morrison was spent.

 

Seems an effective method but I'll stick to my obnoxious cellphone ringtone, thanks. :scaredas:

 

Unrelated but in other combat sports such as mixed martial arts you see fighters being knocked out cold and woken up by follow-up punches on the ground. In most of those cases the fighter will complain that he was never knocked out in the first place.

Yes, I'll very much stick with my cellphone as well instead of hitting the canvas or being beaten back to consciousness.

 

Ruddock was past his prime and had been fighting infrequently up to that point. Holmes was in his prime and active. I think Ruddock deserved more credit.

 

Good ****, dude............. But I think my man Holmes at age 40 was schooling the 25 year old Ruddock in '89...............
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MR.BILL

 

Holmes stopped Shavers in the fight in which he was dropped. He won a wide decision in heir first fight.

As far as which is more impressive, I don't know. They were both impressive. Holmes was hammered hard from a great right hand, Ruddock looked dead when he was dropped, then the canvas seemed to awake him, and I did not agree with the stoppage later in the round.

 

this was 1986.....not 89...........holmes was 36 yrs old.....ruddock was 22 yrs old and only 210 lbs here.....:good

 

Very tough choice...I'll take Ruddock's inhuman recovery from the knockdown, just because most fawn over Larry's recovery. (Which is justified.)
Ruddock's was at least as impressive, if not more so.

 

After that Shavers bomb Larry had no right to get up, so I go with Holmes

 

Ruddock vs Smith was almost as impressive, because Ruddock was hit flush on the chin with a huge right from Bonecrusher, went down like a ton of bricks and just busted out laughing.

I'll try and get this fight uploaded.