larry holmes best performance?

he had quite a few. Both shavers bouts are excellent showings by Holmes. The norton, leon spinks, Cobb, and Ocasio are all bouts worth watching as Holmes preforms very well and is in control in these fights.

 

Shavers I and II and Leon Spinks

 

I wouldn't say Holmes was "in control" against Norton, it was a razor-close war which he won by a hair.

Although the quality of Norton makes it a superb performance.

 

Yeah but Norton was such a game challenger and made Holmes give everything he had.
It was a great preformance and an exciting fight i think holmes controlled most of the fight norton obviously made a comeback in the later rounds but it was all holmes for the majority of the fight

 

I'm not taking anything away from his great performance, he gave everything & showed great character.

I'm just in a little disagreement about the degree to which Holmes controlled the action, but i do think he was the clear winner.

 

alright i may have overexagerated but still what a good win holmes beat norton better then ali ever did

 

I agreed with Arthur Mercante that Holmes should have had Norton sewn up on the cards after ten rounds, and this with a damaged left arm that was public knowledge. I never saw anybody else outbox Ken quite the way Larry did over the first 2/3rds of that one. (Ali also swept the first several rounds of Norton II, where Ken just followed Muhammad around while hardly doing any punching by choice. That was a little different than Holmes schooling Norton.)

For me, his best performances were Shavers I (winning 34 of 36 minutes), Ocasio (showing Listonian jab power off the front foot-LeDoux later said Holmes had regressed to flicking it against him) and Cobb (which detonated the notion that he was rapidly aging with diminished stamina).

 

His easiest performance,,,,,,,,,,,,over Muhammad Ali.

Larry could have read 'War and Peace' in his right hand, while winning that fight
with his left hand.

Maybe the most one-sided one handed win in Heavyweight History.

 

Muhammad ripped LeDoux a new one for Scott's apathetic challenge of Holmes, then underpassed it. 1980 was the easiest year any heavyweight champion had enjoyed since Foreman in 1973. Snipes gave him a timely wake-up call, one he badly needed for Cooney.

 

Drew 'Bundini' Brown, arguing with one of Larry's relatives before the fight.

'Larry can hit Muhammad with everything he wants, but none of those punches will
hurt me'

'I will become a 'witch doctor', and absorb all of Larry's punches thrown at Muhammad.'

Of course, after he got his paycheck, Bundini flew the coupe.

 

I must say that overall his best performance must have been Norton. Not his easiest fight or most dominating fight but one must admit it was perhaps the only fight in which we saw ALL of his championship qualities. Holmes displayed the great jab, the power right hand, his excellent uppercut, solid movement, excellent speed in hand and foot, power, the ability to take a punch, the ability to fight back when rocked, great stamina, guts, will and a championship heart. If you want to know about who Larry Holmes was as a fighter, this is the fight to watch. A GREAT performance by Larry Holmes.

 

expand on that a bit please

 

Holmes' best performance was against Gerry Cooney. Larry controlled most of the fight, all the while weary of Cooney's massive power. Holmes used his jab to great effect. moved in and out. delivered precise combo's when he had to. then wore Gerry down & closed the show perfectly. without getting overanxious & possibly getting caught with a desperate left hook.

 

I thought "The Homer" looked great against "Shavers '78, Spinks '81, Cooney '82 and Smith in 1984."

MR.BILL

Holmes also ****ed-up a tuff David Bey in 10 rds in 1985....
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