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    Default Re: Larry Holmes fought bums for the most of it.

    No love for Scott LeDoux eh . I'd love to have ol bitter Larry with that stick at heavyweight today. The man was literally sandwiched between two absolute dynamos era wise. But he faced a pretty decent run of tough talent and a half dozen Wal Mart shelf stockers, seem to recall even Renaldo Snipes giving him a helluva fight but may be off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spicoli View Post
    No love for Scott LeDoux eh . I'd love to have ol bitter Larry with that stick at heavyweight today. The man was literally sandwiched between two absolute dynamos era wise. But he faced a pretty decent run of tough talent and a half dozen Wal Mart shelf stockers, seem to recall even Renaldo Snipes giving him a helluva fight but may be off.
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    then there was this....you gotta be great to come back from stuff like this


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    Default Re: Larry Holmes fought bums for the most of it.

    The Lorenzo Zannon fight was his best fight. Hard from bell to bell.
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    Default Re: Larry Holmes fought bums for the most of it.

    Quote Originally Posted by Spicoli View Post
    No love for Scott LeDoux eh . I'd love to have ol bitter Larry with that stick at heavyweight today. The man was literally sandwiched between two absolute dynamos era wise. But he faced a pretty decent run of tough talent and a half dozen Wal Mart shelf stockers, seem to recall even Renaldo Snipes giving him a helluva fight but may be off.


    Larry beat up on one half of that sandwich... old, stale bread.

    Then, in beautiful justice... he got slaughtered by the other half. (A battering I could watch over and over again).

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    Quote Originally Posted by TitoFan View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Spicoli View Post
    No love for Scott LeDoux eh . I'd love to have ol bitter Larry with that stick at heavyweight today. The man was literally sandwiched between two absolute dynamos era wise. But he faced a pretty decent run of tough talent and a half dozen Wal Mart shelf stockers, seem to recall even Renaldo Snipes giving him a helluva fight but may be off.


    Larry beat up on one half of that sandwich... old, stale bread.

    Then, in beautiful justice... he got slaughtered by the other half. (A battering I could watch over and over again).
    Even the beating he took from Tyson, being knocked down 3 times, showed how great his chin and recuperative powers were. Those were truly brutal punches he took from a prime Mike Tyson.
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    Default Re: Larry Holmes fought bums for the most of it.

    ..... everybody fought bums apart from Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Norton and Holyfield
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    Larry Holmes is one of those fighters to whom I give grudging respect (very grudging). There's no denying his ability nor his greatness... but boy did I ever root for him to lose every time out. He was such an insufferable whiner. He wasn't given enough respect... Marciano couldn't carry his jock (didn't he say that?)... wah, wah wah! He should've never gotten in the ring with Ali... and I was oh so happy when he got destroyed by Tyson.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TitoFan View Post
    Larry Holmes is one of those fighters to whom I give grudging respect (very grudging). There's no denying his ability nor his greatness... but boy did I ever root for him to lose every time out. He was such an insufferable whiner. He wasn't given enough respect... Marciano couldn't carry his jock (didn't he say that?)... wah, wah wah! He should've never gotten in the ring with Ali... and I was oh so happy when he got destroyed by Tyson.
    There must be some bit of you that was happy when he beat the undefeated Ray Mercer and cause that big upset. Larry was in tears that night because he got some respect for out smarting the Olympic gold medallist who had recently destroyed Tommy Morrison. It was emotional.
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    Default Re: Larry Holmes fought bums for the most of it.

    Quote Originally Posted by Master View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by TitoFan View Post
    Larry Holmes is one of those fighters to whom I give grudging respect (very grudging). There's no denying his ability nor his greatness... but boy did I ever root for him to lose every time out. He was such an insufferable whiner. He wasn't given enough respect... Marciano couldn't carry his jock (didn't he say that?)... wah, wah wah! He should've never gotten in the ring with Ali... and I was oh so happy when he got destroyed by Tyson.
    There must be some bit of you that was happy when he beat the undefeated Ray Mercer and cause that big upset. Larry was in tears that night because he got some respect for out smarting the Olympic gold medallist who had recently destroyed Tommy Morrison. It was emotional.

    I must've blocked that one out of my mind.

    Nah... again... I give Larry the respect he deserves. He was also unlucky to come in after Ali and before Tyson... two formidable bookends to his own career.

    The best (or more exciting) fight of his career, IMO, was definitely his war with Ken Norton. That was one of those classics.

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