Larry Holmes destroys Muhammad Ali

And here come the 40,000 posts of protest.......

:roll:

 

He did look sharp and fit in that fight. Few people would have beaten the Holmes of 1980. But we shouldn't factor the job that he did on Ali too much into the equation as the " greatest" was no longer great by then.

 

C'mon...Ali was a walking dummy in boxing terms that night.
Larry great fighter no doubt...but nonsense to use this "fight" as a yardstick.

 

Ali also looked at his sharpest against Brian London. However,Brian was far from being Muhammad's greatest opponent. Same applies to Holmes and that version of Ali he fought.



It was mentioned that Ali was competitive against Trevor Berbick the year after the Holmes fight,and he certainly was but he was in slightly better form than he was against Holmes. In the Berbick bout,Muhammad was actually throwing punches.

 

Holmes is great no doubt, but in regards to ops post, one of the reasons he looked great in that particular fight was the fact that his opponent was shot, had been through brutal wars and was suffering from Parkinson's at the time, not to mention he was also taking thyroid pills.

ffs Bruce Seldon probably could have done a job on that Ali

its just as relevant as me saying Tyson destroys any version of Holmes.

 

ya and look what larrys 38 yr old lighting quick jab did too mike tyson...not much:hi:

 

I think it's all too easy to lose sight of either of these equally true statements and want to lean too far in the opposing direction based on whether your agenda is to give or withhold as much credit to Holmes as possible.

Objectively speaking, it was still a creditable victory and impressive performance despite Ali being a shell of himself, which he undoubtedly was.

 

I agree that Larry Holmes was at the pinnacle point of his career. But his performance against a completely diminished and faded opponent is not what I would base this on.

 

Also, before that fight, Ali was ordered by the Nevada Boxing Commission to visit the Mayo clinic for a neurological exam. The results (not made public) were:

Muhammad Ali was a little off when he tried to touch his finger to his nose.
He had trouble coordinating his speech and
the fight legend couldn't hop on one foot well.

The fight never should have happened.

 

Ali, was brain damaged by the shavers fight. This was confirmed to ferdie by a ny doctor after the fight!!

 

The re-writing of history on here by people with an obvious agenda sometimes reaches astonishing proportions.
In other cases though it's just plain lack of intelligence.

 

true i forgot to mention that, Ali was unable to touch his own nose.

if anything Holmes was in a much better place when he fought Tyson than when Ali fought Holmes

 

Azzer..u are correct.

 

Put Larry in with a prime Ali (which we never actually saw due to the 3 yrs of forced inactivity) and I think we'd have a different outcome. It's ludicrous to gauge Holmes' greatness by his performance against a zombie with boxing gloves on which is pretty much what Ali was that night. He's lucky he made it out of the ring alive.