I think you entirely over exagerate Larry's right hand problems. If I had never seen Larry fight before you'd have me believing that either one of us would stand a good chance of catching Larry with a right hand and dropping him.
1. Mike Tyson 2. Muhammad Ali 3. Lennox Lewis 4. Joe Frazier 5. Sonny Liston Marciano bulked up to 210lbs would perhaps go above Tyson.
I think any Tyson beats any Holmes young or old - Holmes wasn't that good?? Prime Norton would've beaten him and Prime Ali absolutely beats him - I thought Witherspoon beat Larry. Marciano, Dempsey, Johnson are in another stratosphere as fighters in my opinion - they don't lose to Larry - it's just not happening - i really don't understand it when I here some people going on about how he'd beat Ali - thats ridiculous - he wouldn't beat Sonny Liston in my book?? Tyson absolutely destroyed him - and with relative ease really - and Larry was 38 - it's not that old?? Millions of fighters at 38 have been amazing fighters - i relly think that people brush off the Holmes comeback against Tyson as though Larry was a creaking veteran - he wasn't - he just wasn't that good - if Tyson had've fought the Larry of 5 years previous he would've kayoed Larry just as easily - Larry was a champion and a fine fighter but he really doesn't come close to being in the same bracket as Rocky/Demps/Louis/Ali/Johnson - Larry against the Foreman of Frazier/Norton I think would be 50/50
I agree with this..esp. the right handed chances of the two Maxes...particularly Schmeling, who's right was quicker, though less torqued.
I'll always think that the Muhammad Ali between 1965-1974 would have beaten Holmes. Tough fight though. Others that would have given him problems were Joe Louis,Lennox Lewis and Joe Frazier. A larger version of Marciano would have stood a good chance too.