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Close But No Cigar: The Trouble With Larry And Lennox

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  • Close But No Cigar: The Trouble With Larry And Lennox

    A good-natured young pal of mine from the Evergreen State of Washington winged me a missive by email on Week One of the NFL season. Cheered by the Seahawks’ 9-6 victory over the Detroit Lions, he then made the mistake of looking at my all-time heavyweight rankings as he was retiring to bed to dream of Super Bowl glory. What rattled him most was the apparently premature onslaught of senile dementia (I am fifty after all) that prompted me to place Gene Tunney above Larry Holmes.

    My friend’s rocket soared across the ocean with typical tongue-in-cheek sting, landing with some force in my peaceful little Kentish domain.

    The warhead contained the following message: “These all-time rankings of yours are the work of a diabolical madman, Casey. One part genius, one part insanity, one part Nat Fleischer, one part Unabomber Ted Kacyzinski….”

    I was getting along just fine with the ‘genius’ part until Mr Fleischer entered the fray. (Mr Kacyzinski I will quietly ignore). Ah, yes, the old Nat Fleischer jibe: a crafty weapon often deployed against men of my vintage who are perceived as being two steps away from the local rest home for punchy boxing writers. [details]

  • #2
    i agreee with the article but sadly the reason alot of people dont rate lennox or larry highly is because lennox is british and larry made a big deal of how he did not like ali and did not respect him culminating in his humiliating fight

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    • #3
      Mike, you know how I feel about Holmes.....

      Congratulations. You have now forced me to re-evaluate my rankings and even my ranking system. Once again, just when I think I've got a grip on things, you go and write something so insightful, intelligent, and exemplary; that I am forced to follow the time-honored tradition of realizing there's more to it than I had thought before and that there are far more variables to consider than I ever have previously.

      Thanks.

      Incidentally, I had Tunney at 13....previously.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by K-DOGG View Post
        Mike, you know how I feel about Holmes.....

        Congratulations. You have now forced me to re-evaluate my rankings and even my ranking system. Once again, just when I think I've got a grip on things, you go and write something so insightful, intelligent, and exemplary; that I am forced to follow the time-honored tradition of realizing there's more to it than I had thought before and that there are far more variables to consider than I ever have previously.

        Thanks.

        Incidentally, I had Tunney at 13....previously.
        K-DOGG.. good to see a friendly face ... I have exiled myself from ESB.. C-ya around dude.. And now to the POINT.. great article and I enjoyed reading it.. even if it was long..

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        • #5
          K-Dogg, my old friend, that's very sporting of you. But if you believe that Larry was the greatest, kid, then you damn well carry on believing it.

          Thirty years in this game has taught me one sober lesson - the fact that I don't know more than you or anyone else.

          God bless, slugger!

          Mike

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