Please tell me why Holyfield is so highly regarded

holyfield at 34 had more in the tank than tyson did at 30 which is a testament to evanders commitment to the sport and sadly to mikes stupidity whenever i watch the 2 fights the thing that strikes me the most is how flat footed tyson looks i think prison took mikes foot speed away from him completely while at that point i still think evander had his foot speed evander lived the life of a top class sportsman mike never did after he left rooney and cayton for king

 

Great reaction to the OP. Couldn't have said it better!

 

i think you got me mixed up with the other poster..i butchered up the use of "quotes" when quoting him, so may have look like his thoughts were mine...we were on same page in ever aspect

 

you sound like a defense attorney. no matter how bad your argument looks, you will point to something obviously positive and look for ways to simplify or discredit or downplay. i can do that too, with anyones record....you talk about rocky marciano beating a cruiserweight Holyfield...when he was getting knocked down and cut up by has beens from his generation. make a case for someone you think ranks higher than holyfield that is fight in the same era or after him...i would like to see that...that is if you have one in mind
:think

 

I see you've calmed down some and dropped the street****.

My comment on Rocky v Holy was an aside really, tiny part of my post, which was mainly a response to the earlier list of Holy's wins.

In that post, I gave Holy his dues. I also pointed out that no serious Holy fan would count Foreman and Holmes as among Holy's better wins.



As for you final point, I rank Tyson and Lewis both ahead of him.

As I mentioned, he was the greatest bever cruiserwt and a very good heavy, but not IMO, a top ten heavy.