Is this forum overrating Larry Holmes?

Of course ... and that's what separates General from Classic .. Prime Holmes is tough H2H for any heavy .. . and imo , he would come out with a winning record with the 6 you just mentioned above

 

I used to be more excited for new fights, but now a days there is co much ducking and corrupt decisions it's hard to get as excited. PPV to watch some hype job against a non-contender? No thanks!

 

Ya me too .. how many times has Crawford , Spence , and Thurman got in the ring with each other ?? over what the last 5 years ? lol
Enough said .... I hear ya ..

 

He gets over rated here for sure. I don’t think he falls in top five and borderline not top ten. Mainly his competition wasn’t good but he also didn’t dominate the competition like some of his competitors in the top ten may have. He also lost or had super close decisions with the best he faced.

 

In my opinion there are other fighters who are severely overrated, they did not have longevity on their side to be considered great. Larry Holmes was a fine champion. He was not a flash in the pan to make numerous excuses over.

 

Well we are glad that the thread doesn't say Marciano right ?? Are you sure this doesn't have to do with that ? somehow? Putting Holmes outside the top 10 criminally underrates him .. and a lot more than Marciano in case you are wondering ??
All good having Larry top 5 -10 .. but much outside ,, You are reaching

 

You do know that beating a young very good fighter is better than a shot ATG right? Bruh? Shot Tyson, It's a f*cking shot Tyson. Norton was only slightly past his best who was coming of a pretty good win over Jimmy Young. If you count shot Tyson is a career defining win for Lewis than Shot Ali would become Holmes career defining win

 

Good lord…not everything is Marciano related mate lol. We are referring to Holmes. Plenty of Marciano threads. Growing up Holmes wasn’t considered all that “great”. Modern revisionist history try’s to say otherwise. I have Holmes in my top ten personally but I can see an argument of
Ali, Louis, Lewis, Foreman, Liston, Wlad, Frazier, Marciano, Tyson, Johnson, Jeffries, Holyfield, Langford to be made over him.
The odd Marciano obsession continues. Even in posts completely unrelated.

 

Norton,Williams,witherspoon,snipes,weaver,shavers.A lot of guys either hurt him or gave him a very competitive fight.I also heard he turned down 3.5 million dollars to fight Greg page because he didn’t think it was enough.

Top 10 is fair I think,but certainly not top 3.

 

I agree. His chin could be shaky at times, his defense was great and his offense underrated.