Larry Holmes---greatest of all-tıme?

[rjj tszyu]

Larry Holmes was a great fighter no doubt.

Greatest of all time? No chance IMO. He had no real top notch competitors whilst in his prime and to be that GOAT, you must have the fights that define you. Wlad really reminds me a lot of Holmes. He too is in a poor era of HW boxing and it will be hard to place him in an all time list due to this fact.

I agree that Holmes beat Spinks though, but I actually think he was robbed due to the fact that in the 80's racism was still much more apparent in the media and I basically think they didn't want a black man to take a white mans record. Then again had he dealt with Spinks in the way a true HW should against a LHW (like Tyson did) then it couldn't have happened anyway.

[THE PHILOSOPHER]

Some of ali's oponents:

-Patterson weighed 188½lbs.

-Quarry weighed 190lbs.

-Frazier 205½lbs for there 1st fight..

-Bob Foster Weighed 180lbs for the ali fight.

-Jimmy elliss was 185LBS for the ali fight.

-Henry-Cooper weighed 185LBS.

-Karl mildenberger 195lbs.

-Leon spinks 197¼ lbs.

-Zora folley 202½.

-Archie moore 191lbs.

-Doug jones 188 lbs.

etc etc

So how is byrd not a HW??

Chris Byrd 215 lbs beat David Tua 233 lbs by UD in round 12 of 12

Chris Byrd 214 lbs beat Evander Holyfield 220 lbs by UD in round 12 of 12

Chris Byrd 210½ lbs drew with Andrew Golota 237½ lbs by PTS in round 12 of 12

Chris Byrd 214 lbs beat Jameel McCline 270 lbs by SD in round 12 of 12

Wladimir Klitschko 238 lbs beat Chris Byrd 213½ lbs by UD in round 12 of 12

Chris Byrd 217¼ lbs beat Maurice Harris 224½ lbs by UD in round 12 of 12

Chris Byrd 215 lbs beat Jimmy Thunder 230 lbs by TKO at 1:07 in round 9 of 10

Chris Byrd 213 lbs beat DaVarryl Williamson 225 lbs by UD in round 12 of 12

I don't understand how byrd is not a HW? Holyfield fought as a CW, Michael moorer as a LHW!!