Larry Holmes vs. Ray Mercer- TEXTBOOK!

[ruthless rocco]

[ykdadamaja]

LOLOL.... what a joke. I had Larry to win that without even fighting. lololol.... everyone thought Butterbean would have knocked Larry's block off, but that doesn't work like that.

[ykdadamaja]

PS: Tyson clips Holmes, pound for pound and prime for prime, and finishes him just as much as he finished him in their fight. The rounds may vary. But Tyson is a much better finisher than Witherspoon and the rest of them.

A shame Witherspoon couldn't finish the champ when he had him. But Larry was always a cut above the average fighter and/or average champion, but Tyson wasn't average.

[Beanflicker]

That's the first Larry Holmes fight I ever saw because it happened when I just got into boxing. 53 year old Holmes outboxing a toughman fighter.

[ykdadamaja]

That's the first Larry Holmes fight I ever saw because it happened when I just got into boxing. 53 year old Holmes outboxing a toughman fighter.

It was a gross mismatch now that you look back at it.

[Beanflicker]

I guess any Butterbean fight is gross, what a fat man, I can't believe he went 12 rounds even if it was in his plodding, inactive style.

[ruthless rocco]

I guess any Butterbean fight is gross, what a fat man, I can't believe he went 12 rounds even if it was in his plodding, inactive style.

I don't think he ever went 12 rounds. This Holmes fight was his longest at 10 rounds.

[Beanflicker]

Even 10 rounds is amazing. I think every other fight had been 4 rounders and those hardly ever went the distance anyway.

[Beanflicker]

I wonder if he was the heaviest man to ever go 10 rounds, he outweighed even Valuev.

[SlimTrae]

Larry Holmes without question only trained 3 weeks ITS HIS OWN FAULT for his Tyson fight. Had he trained 9 weeks....different story.

Larry Holmes #3 ATG HW.

only Louis, Ali ranked higher.

Absolute bullshit!

The fight was being organised at least as early as when Tyson fought Biggs 3 months prior to the Holmes fight. Holmes talks shit because he cannot give any credit to Tyson. He knows he faired better Holyfield, Mercer and McCall and that Mike dealt with him easy and giving Mike any credit is almost as good as saying Mike could beat any Holmes.

Watch this interview with Holmes ringside after the Biggs fight.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m861f99Nkvk

Well, that vid gave the verdict.
Anyone ever read Holmes' book "Against the Odds"? He wrote that in the dressing room that night- he felt like cancelling- Something he never felt before.

Thats how good Tyson was.

Looking back on it, I didn't realize at that time..Holmes went on a 6-0 streak including the Mercer fight followed by a 12 rounder with Holy.

Had to check out boxrec...wow he won 7 more? before a decision loss to McCall & then some. Yeah, Tyson blasted Holmes so cold, I forgot that Holmes was still a viable fighter.

[Spicoli]

Holmes read the same book to Mercer that cream puff Francisco Damiani had prior. He showed more holes on Ray and boxed his ears clean off save for a single lone uppercut that snapped his nose like a dry twig. Very respectable classroom put on by Holmes here no doubt and solid cagey effort vs Holyfield but by no means was that a draw Holmes comeback for the majority was extremely well choreographed and he was oozing guile, snap jabs and a lot of trap fighting shuffling back and forth to ropes. He maxed out the effort and did very well but Ribalta hurt him, Ferguson had him out on his feet and I thought beat him, similarly with Quinn Navarre.

[Master]

Holyfield definately beat Holmes but the old man made him work for the victory.

[ross]

Its Wilder v Stiverne.....

[ykdadamaja]

Even 10 rounds is amazing. I think every other fight had been 4 rounders and those hardly ever went the distance anyway.

Holmes was near damn 80 here. lolol....