Quote Originally Posted by Trainer Monkey
Quote Originally Posted by hitmandonny
Holmes is indeed at top ten with Ali.
However, I feel the reason the general boxing public fails to fully acknowledge his achievements is because he just couldn't achieve the popularity that the likes of Ali, Louis and Marciano did. In their era's each guy transcended boxing and reached the fans on a personal level. Although he was a nice guy Larry lacked the charisma that Ali had, the (racially motivated) pride in Louis or the All American love Marciano enjoyed.
But similarly to another post I made today (on PBF) Homes deserves to be remembered for his talent in the ring, his skills and abilities and his fighting courage rather than his personality and life outside the ring.

The sport is Boxing, let's remeber the Boxing he did.
Larry unfortunatly was a combination of wrong fighter at the wrongt time,and a victim of passive racism
First off he comes in right at the end of an era when every fighter was a fighter+,Foreman preached,Norton acted,Frazier sang,Ali was well Ali
Holmes just hit people
But on top of it,it wasnt the Ali fight nobody forgave Holmes for,it was him whipping the great white hype Cooney nobody forgave him for. When he beat 7 kinds of hell out of Tex Cobb,all Sports Illustrated could talk about was how valiant Tex was for taking the punishment
The bit i put in bold is what it should all be about, not who can trash talk the best.