Why did Tyson fight Holmes in 88?

[jack_the_rippuh]

Well since he could see things coming so well he should have saw himself going flat broke dealing with Don King.

[DiegoFuego]

Well, I do recall during the pre-fight conferences when Holmes said something about Tyson ending up in jail in near the future. He was right.

Larry Holmes is a wise, wise man

[catskills23]

You know larry thinks that if he had more time to train for his fight against tyson he would of beaten mike

[gnostic19]

There was no animosity bewteen the two going into that fight, guys.

It was truly one of those "changing of the guards" typ of fights.
Holmes was the great heavyweight, before Tyson.....& much like Holmes fought & beat Ali, Tyson fought & beat Holmes.
Holmes wanted a shot....& as a former great, he was granted one.

Tyson truly respected Larry Holmes.

ditto


these kind of fights happen all the time. It's was way fpor the box promoters to show the not so interested general public that Tyson has suplanted Holmes as teh main man. Everyone woh follows boxing knew the outcome of teh fight, but it was symbolic as much as anything else.

[Sir_Jose]

Hadn't Holmes been retired for 2 years or something? It's not like beating an old Holmes was going to get Tyson the name recognition he needed anything. I mean, he'd already become the undisputed heavyweight champion, correct?

Money plain and simple

[tri4ben2]

In both the case of Ali Holmes and Tyson Holmes, the champion did not want the fight, but did not want the old HOFer alling them out.

The difference is that Holmes out-jabbed and out worked Ali to win a late stoppage, but still respected him.

Tyson blew through Holmes coming off two close losses to Spinks.

At the end of the day, you fight the guy that is in front of you.