Watching Holmes/Spinks 1

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  1. PernellSweetPea

    PernellSweetPea Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Either way, Holmes came out looking worse.. In my eyes it proved Spinks was the greater fighter in someways. He moved up and beat him significantlythe first fight.
     
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  2. escudo

    escudo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I think this pretty much sums up Holmes championship reign on the whole.
     
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  3. Saad54

    Saad54 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Irregardless of Rocky Marciano's quality of opposition, Larry was clearly milking it post Witherspoon. You don't have to be a Marciano fan to see this.
     
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  4. RulesMakeItInteresting

    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Well, he still had a couple of good wins, Bey for example was a good fighter and he got stopped.

    I do mostly agree with you overall, though. I think Witherspoon was the last we saw of prime Larry Holmes, which coincides with my assertion that Tyson beat a Holmes nearly five years past his prime.
     
    RulesMakeItInteresting, May 18, 2019
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  5. JohnThomas1

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    That scare certainly caused him to shut up shop and sit on the title - well the IBF after he was stripped of the WBC.
     
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