Larry Holmes Is a Good Fighter!

[jabsRstiff]

Yeah I personally think he is top 5 all time heavyweight material. In fact, I'd say he's fourth behind ali, louis, and Foreman.

Sounds about right.

[SnoopySmurf]

** Holmes gets more respect than he deserves. He might have escaped the shadow of Ali, Frazier, and Foreman had he taken on the best. He didn't, he fought a very weak collection of heavies. The better primed heavies he avoided and there were too many fighters in his era he failed to match up with to be accidental.

Who did he avoid that could have beaten him? I saw his fights Live on TV against Shavers (twice), Marvin Frazier, James Bonecrusher Smith (who he TKO'd, while Tyson went the distance), Kenny Norton and a lot of other top heavies of his time.

This is like saying Lennox Lewis avoided John Ruiz.

[Dynamite76]

Great fighter who lost his way near the end, avoided some deserving heavyweights, but definitely had most of the attributes you want in a heavyweight champ.

[marvdave]

avoided some deserving heavyweights,

I'm still waiting for someone to tell me what heavyweight he ducked..

[The_One77]

Great fighter no doubt, i think he would be beat Lewis....Lewis had trouble with fighters with good jabs.

1. Ali
2. Louis
3. Holmes
4. Foreman
5. Lewis

[DaddysBoy]

No one talks about Holmes either...He had a great chin, he was a champion for 8 years and made 20 title defenses...he beat The Greatest of all time...sure Ali was 40 yrs old, but he was still damn fast

WTF??? Still damn fast my ****in ass! That fool never beat the greatest, **** no. He beat a sick ol man with parkinsons syndrome.

Holmes was bad though, and would **** tyson and holyfield up in his prime for sure.

[Run]

1. Ali
2. Louis
3. Holmes
4. Foreman
5. Lewis

Ok yeah.....I realize Holmes is top 5 but better than Foreman?

I'd say Big George is better all time with his second career. To remain active, fight the level of opposition and be successful at his age was astonishing. Their resumes are comparable but lets keep in mind some of the names Foreman knocked out.

Frazier
Norton
Lyle
Qawi
Cooney
Moorer

and he "struggled" against Moorer if you want to call it that.



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[Dirt E Gomez]

My list of heavyweight greats is changing and I've finally moved Ali to 3rd behind Louis and Foreman. Holmes is always somewhere around 4-6.

[hollister]

"Larry Holmes Is a Good Fighter!"

....& oranges, are orange.


No **** !

C'mon, cut the guy some slack lol

That was pretty funny though..

[LondonRingRules]

what fighters did he avoid? Page? Coetzee?

** Great, you got 2 out of a dozen fights he could have made that would have given him the respect he is always whining about. It's easy to look great against Frank, Bey or Zanon. Had he had to go up against Ali, Frazier, Norton and Foreman, he wouldn't have been wanting to make a comeback. He's lucky that he was a late bloomer in a weak division that he made weaker by his choice of opponents.