larry holmes vs lennox lewis

[The Fightfan]

I have just watched Holmes vs Shavers I and II.It is very hard to see Lennox beating a prime Larry Holmes.Holmes by decision

[ICB]

I have just watched Holmes vs Shavers I and II.It is very hard to see Lennox beating a prime Larry Holmes.Holmes by decision

Yup spot on have your first CC on me.

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

Ive not seen either Shavers-Holmes fight. Iv got about enough time to see one before i leave work, which one is the better fight?

[ICB]

Ive not seen either Shavers-Holmes fight. Iv got about enough time to see one before i leave work, which one is the better fight?

I uploaded 1st Holmes vs Shavers fight on Youtube. 1st fight was one sided Holmes beat the living crap out of Shavers and won pretty much 12 rounds to 0. The rematch was going the same way until the 7th round when Holmes got hit with one of the hardest punches i've ever seen. Not only did he somehow manage to get up. He then went about kicking Shavers ass and stopping him in the 11th round of a thriller.

[The Fightfan]

Holmes easily would outbox Lennox. I'll take Holmes over every current or recent champion for that matter, and yes the 1982 Holmes over the 88 Tyson.

[coog]

It is very difficult to compare fighters from different eras. However, I have always liked Larry Holmes he was the champion when I was training. great Jab, good short right, moved well. Larry Holmes beat some good fighters cooney from what I understand was a very hard puncher with decent boxing skills but was usually drunk in the ring. To fight Lewis, Holmes would have had to fight more in the pocket and take a chance of getting hit more often. He did take a good punch: but we are talking 6'5" 240 and in close he had that clinching style. This would have been a trainers fight. Who really knows. Holmes seemed like an angry man, Lewis seemed Mostly calm. I pick calm

[cockey cockney]

holmes all the way.....lewis was good however i always felt that he was overated by alot of people. Holmes always seemed very unrecognised by alot of people however to me he was a genuine great heavy, always rated him. Holmes UD, jab being the factor.

[X]

I would go for Holmes - both of their problems was that they were the only 'big' name around when they were in their prime (for Holmes, he succeeded Ali and basically cleaned up the heavyweights as best he could when Don King was screwing the division as much as he could. For Lewis, both Tyson and Holyfield were well past their peaks and he never fought Bowe)

Both great fighters, though.