Larry Holmes---greatest of all-tıme?

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larry was the real deal, not evander. larry would have bazookaed evander ın hıs prıme. look at larry at 42 years old go the dıstance wıth a prıme evander ın 1992 ı thınk. unbelıevaqble.

What do you make of Larry's 4th round stoppage defeat against Tyson?

I have always stuggled to firmly put that fight into context.

At present, im kinda thinking the mid-80's Tyson was just that good

ı never understood that fıght eıther--ı saw ıt lıve on PPV january 1988. I thought Holmes was startıng to gıve a boxıng lesson to Tyson by the 4th round---ıt looked lıke ıt could be an upset at that poınt---then BAM!!! Tyson's speed took over. ıt sucked to see larry go down lıke that.

He took that fight on 4 weeks notice, was 40 yrs old and had been in retirement for 2 years following 2 losses to a LHW (one of those fights were debateable though!) a better prepared holmes frustrates tyson badly......

Maybe. It showed me how great his chin was because he took some blockbuster home runs and was still fighting back!

I must admit to the guilty pleasure of jumping for joy when Tyson KTFO'ed Holmes.
While I grudgingly admit to Holmes greatness as a fighter.... I absolutely HATED Holmes the person.

I couldn't stand him either.