Comments Thread For: Larry Holmes: Current Heavyweights "Couldn't Stand A Chance" In My Era

[Combat Talk Radio]

What is special abot Fury? Fury a cruiser Cummingham knocked down and had resort to dirty tactics and officially got warned for that? There's nothing special about Fury.

Michael Spinks couldn't handle bullies. The Fury that showed up in the recent Wilder fight does to Spinks what the original Tyson did.

[The D3vil]

He's right, mostly.

Fighters don't fight enough today to beat Holmes, who regularly went 15 rounds.

That being said, Fury would give Larry Holmes hell & could beat him due to his sheer size and skill and athleticism for that size.

I think Wilder & Joshua due to their athleticism & power stand a punchers chance against anybody.

But guys like Whyte, Parker, & Ruiz are not even contenders in Holmes' era.

[Rusty Tromboni]

Tyson really fu.cked him up. Not that Holmes really had brains to begin with.

He wins a nip-tuck against Fluffy. Everyone else has their way with him.

[Rusty Tromboni]

He's right, mostly.

Fighters don't fight enough today to beat Holmes, who regularly went 15 rounds.

That being said, Fury would give Larry Holmes hell & could beat him due to his sheer size and skill and athleticism for that size.

I think Wilder & Joshua due to their athleticism & power stand a punchers chance against anybody.

But guys like Whyte, Parker, & Ruiz are not even contenders in Holmes' era.

And yet Bey and Frazier were.... and they weren't even the worst!

[Rusty Tromboni]

Does anyone here believe Norton lasts as long against Fluffy as Joshua did?

[Rusty Tromboni]

Michael Spinks couldn't handle bullies. The Fury that showed up in the recent Wilder fight does to Spinks what the original Tyson did.

Nope.

Wrong.

Try again.


Fury puts him away one ONE round, not 4.

[Roadblock]

The HWs today are big men and ordinary fighters. I would put money on prime Ali to beat all the champs today.

[alexjust]

Fury, for all his dominance in the first Wilder fight, was almost knocked out. In the rematch he closed the distance and we all saw what happened.

Joshua is labelled as chinny but it strikes me that he doesn't know how to ride a punch. Fury to his credit knows how to do this, probably because he's been fighting since childhood.

Based on what I know about Joshua, I'd say he also grew up knowing how to punch. I don't know who and why labels Joshua chinny, I don't see it and I think people who think so have never been hit by a HW or don't have imagination to envisage how it might feel. Or just don't understand how body works. There are practically no HW at or near elite levels who have never been at least knocked down. There are exceptions, like Vitali Klitschko, but they confirm the rule.

[skinnystev]

what larry holmes fails to realize is that the Gypsy King put a dent the size of a softball in the side of the heavyweight champion of the world deontay wilder's head leaving him a vegetable for life this has been verified by birdlegs brother and discovered in a post fight autopsy with power like that Tyson fury would very near kill fighters like jack johnson joe lewis muhammad ali and yes even larry holmes

[HitmanTommy]

All these American midgets get tooled up by either the klitschkos or Fury

This is the modern heavyweight division not the era of PED fuelled Americans vs part time coal miners from the rest of the world.

Holmes gets beaten to a pulp