When Was Holyfield's Prime?

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  1. ashl3y72

    ashl3y72 Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    When do you think it was? Around the Foreman fight? The Bowe fights?

    very hard to tell :think
     
  2. shimmy

    shimmy Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I'd say 1987-1992 he was peak. If you ask him he's still in it.
     
  3. chitownfightfan

    chitownfightfan Loyal Member Full Member

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    IDK.....Wlad is 36 and prime. Why does Holyfield have to be prime at 31. He just put up one of his best performances in 04 at 42. I'll say Tyson 2........Tyson 1 was this greatest fight IMO, and if you asked me after that fight, I would said he could beat Ali.:think
     
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  5. TheGreat

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    Early to mid 90s (minus the bouts he was sick), In the mid 90s he took roids and had some size to him.
     
  6. JeanPaulValley

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    I'd say Foreman fight-Moorer 2.
    After that time he got more inconsistent although he still has some good wins.
     
  7. JeanPaulValley

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    Never Proven. He started out in heavyweight at like 205 pounds. Any athlete with dedication can put on muscle like that. David Haye did it,Adamek did it etc
     
  8. Bazooka

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    From Qawi 1 to Bowe 1, where he peaked IMO was during his fights with Douglas, Dokes, and Cooper... the man just had the goods back then We will never get any heavyweights like Holyfield and or Tyson again
     
  9. luke

    luke Well-Known Member Full Member

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    when he was cruiser champ up untill, round about the bowe loss, i think when he was cruiser weight champion
     
  10. Fists o Foreman

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    Adilson Rodriquez - Buster Douglas.
     
  11. Big Ukrainian

    Big Ukrainian Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I'd say Holy's prime was around 1987 - '93 (till Bowe 2). Since then, he was past-prime, even though he's had great wins (like win over Tyson).

    Holyfield seemed to become a shot fighter around 98-99 (fights vs Bean and Lewis 1), and since 2000 it was clear for everyone that Holyfield was shot and nowhere near to his early 90's version
     
  12. TheGreat

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    :rofl:rofl:rofl Sure Evan Fields or whatever the hell alias he used was clean, ok :roll:
     
  13. Hands of Iron

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    1987-93 with a very nice renaissance as the best from 1996-99 up to when he lost to a bigger, stronger, younger, fresher prime Lennox Lewis. And wasn't stopped in either fight.
     
  14. knockout artist

    knockout artist Boxing Addict banned

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    From the Douglas fight, until the first Moorer fight (when he started having health problems)
     
  15. sinol

    sinol Guest

    the douglas fight and the foreman fight.............