Quote Originally Posted by LuciferTheGreat View Post
Riddick Bowe Are you outta your mind Lyle? Sucker is a never was, never could be hasbeen that had potential and thats all.
He beat a PRIME Evander Holyfield TWICE...Evander is an all time great....am I wrong?


CARL WILLIAMS?!?!?! Dude look at the records Larry Holmes 47-0-0 vs Carl Williams 16-0-0....also Williams was a slender 215 so let's not compare the legitimate big boys to Carl Williams. Gerry Cooney was 6'6 and he was a big boy and if he was able to BOX then he would have beaten Holmes senseless...he hurt him.


I'm not saying Holmes isn't great, I'm not saying he wouldn't be a tough fight for anyone, I'm not trying to diss him, I just think he didn't have the strongest era of heavyweight competition, I don't think he or Mike Tyson had very much keeping them from being as dominant as they were as opposed to Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Lyle and Lewis, Bowe, Holyfield.

The same people arguing FOR Holmes argue AGAINST Rocky Marciano when IMO they had similar eras. They came after very great very popular champions and dominated but the same guys those great champions beat were sort of hanging around but weren't in their primes and the younger talent had not yet developed.