“They Got No Skills!” – Larry Holmes Doesn’t Hold Back On Today’s Heavyweights

[GhostofDempsey]

thats cause George is a sociopath he is constantly living in sarcasm so deep nobody can detect it. It’s like he’s playing reverse psychology 24/7. We can all remember him saying he was “terrified” of Joe Frazier - then watching the replay of the calmest heavyweight champion swagger back to his corner all in the same interview. I understand the workings of the mind and he could have been very nervous secretly. He has to know what he’s displaying to the public when he talks like that though.

he picks other fighters to beat him. And hell say it in interviews. I wouldn’t want to fight him, no sir” “this man is much stronger than I ever was”

I think it was Atlas that called him a “big phony”

I remember in his book he said he never says anything bad about anyone in public because it will turn around and bite you in the ass.

just remember, George was in the hurting business and he was quite good at it lol.

Or it could be George just wasn’t a fan of trash talk and speaking badly of opponents. Many of the old time fighters refrained from that sort of thing, they showed sportsmanship and respect towards their opponents. Ali was really the one who made trash talking a mainstream phenomenon in boxing, even if most of it was all for show.

Im sure Foreman, especially young Foreman wasn’t afraid of any fighter. Mike Tyson didn’t buy into Foreman’s nice guy image. He thought George was crazy and beneath that soft exterior was an animal.

[QueensburyRules]

Larry might be touching 400.

he’s right though they don’t have any skills. And while he’s guilty of being tagged huge by shavers, his defense was good if we are going by the ratio of dangerous blows that came his way. He was in some pretty big firefights with a lot of leather being thrown. You can see his defensive savvy in his fights with Mercer and Holyfield. Both whome he beat (he beat Holy). Holmes slipping and rolling shots, parrying, using angles and head positioning. Resting in the clinches and throwing hard only when the oponent has been lulled to sleep (pace slowed down purposefully).

- - Looked like shyte vs Mercer and Holy, half his ring time illegally holding himself upright on the ropes.

He got an assist when the thug Mercer decided to mug and humiliate him instead of beating him up, and when his elbow sliced up Holy big time, like Tyson in their first bout, Holy reacted poorly to seeing his own blood.