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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.

    I don't know about you, bro. But I've never seen a more irreverent, "whiney" jerk in my years of following boxing. He disrespected Rocky Marciano, when the poor guy wasn't even around anymore to defend himself. No other boxer to my knowledge has ever done that. He whined constantly about not getting enough of "this" or enough of "that", because he was black. It got to the point to where just looking at his sorry ass face rubbed me the wrong way. I was ecstatic when Tyson knocked the stuffing out of him.
    In express fashion!!

    It just doesn't stand to reason that the greatest of all time gets knocked out in 4 rounds... Even if he was 38.

    Hell Lennox Lewis was 38 and under prepared when he was tearing Vitali's face to shreds.

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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.

    I don't know about you, bro. But I've never seen a more irreverent, "whiney" jerk in my years of following boxing. He disrespected Rocky Marciano, when the poor guy wasn't even around anymore to defend himself. No other boxer to my knowledge has ever done that. He whined constantly about not getting enough of "this" or enough of "that", because he was black. It got to the point to where just looking at his sorry ass face rubbed me the wrong way. I was ecstatic when Tyson knocked the stuffing out of him.
    In express fashion!!

    It just doesn't stand to reason that the greatest of all time gets knocked out in 4 rounds... Even if he was 38.

    Hell Lennox Lewis was 38 and under prepared when he was tearing Vitali's face to shreds.


    I like to think it was "karma".
    Apparently.... Holmes couldn't carry Tyson's jock.



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