Larry Holmes on Lennox Lewis' jab (Sept. 19, 2011)

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Larry 'Mr Humble' Holmes...mmm was very lucky to beat Ken Norton, was incredibly lucky to get off the floor after Shavers nailed him. Holmes was a great HW and i believe he would beat Lewis, but Larry please stop blowing your own horn will ya?

Larry Holmes had a torn bicep, and beat Ken Norton more convincingly than Muhammad Ali ever did. He was hit by possibly the hardest hitting Heavyweight of all time, right on the button and he was up within 4 seconds. Shook it off and then handed Earnie Shaver's his ass.

Larry Holmes would outpoint Lennox Lewis quite clearly.

The word 'Convincing' when talking about Holmes' win over Norton should never be used.

I said more convincing than Muhammad Ali in his 3 fights with Ken Norton, but i still think its overrated as a close fight i had Larry Holmes winning 9-6. And i think you'd have to be bit biased to Ken Norton to have him winning.

He lost too many early rounds atleast 7 of the first 9 rounds, and didn't win enough late rounds.

If neither thing is 'convincing' then neither can me more 'convincing' but that's just me been a kunt

Holmes deffo beat Norton, I had Norton winning a lot of the middle rounds, but had Holmes by 2 rounds. He could and should've won the fight much more convincingly, this was a veteran Norton.

My thoughts on Holmes are, that he could possibly be the greatest HW ever, but the lack of any defining (real defining) fights means we really don't know just how good he was.

I feel Ken Norton was as good as he was against Muhammad Ali in 3rd fight, and remember Larry Holmes did have torn bicep. But im glad you see the scoring as i did, i feel Larry Holmes dominated scoring wise in the 1st half of the fight.

You could say Gerry Cooney fight was a defining fight, i know people now like to say Gerry Cooney was just a pretender. But at the time he'd dominated Jimmy Young, Ron Lyle, Ken Norton, that's good form.