Former heavyweight world champion Larry Holmes is the featured boxer in this edition of the Top 5 Notable Wins series. » Read More
The Night Howard Cosell Should Have Listened To Larry Holmes
- Leave a CommentA big fight that attracted millions almost began before the first bell. » Read More
Today In 1992: An Ageing Larry Holmes Stuck Around For All 12-Rounds With A Prime Evander Holyfield
- Leave a CommentImagine if he’d fought him when he was in his prime. » Read More
George Foreman Vs. Larry Holmes: Who Wins?
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Between them, these two all-time greats compiled astonishing numbers: 145 wins, just 11 losses, and a staggering 112 KO’s – George Foreman and Larry Holmes – two of the greatest heavyweights of the 1970s, in fact of all-time. » Read More
Respecting The Great Larry Holmes
- Leave a CommentThere was a time, quite remarkably when we look back now, when the great Larry Holmes, as he often lamented himself, never got his “just due,” his “respect.” Holmes, a man who would absolutely clean up the heavyweight
world today, was once looked at as a decent at best fighter. » Read More
On This Day In 1988: Mike Tyson KO’d The Hitherto Unstopped Larry Holmes – does this mean Tyson would also have taken out Foreman?
-At the time of his rendering an ageing Larry Holmes unconscious, in disturbing fashion, not too many fans, experts or historians took too much notice of the Mike Tyson KO win; certainly the reigning heavyweight champ was given little praise or credit for taking out the 38 year old who had himself ruled the division from 1978 to 1985. » Read More
George Foreman Vs. Larry Holmes, January 23rd, 1999 – The Fight That Bounced
-George Foreman and Larry Holmes, two of the greatest heavyweights of the 1970s, in fact of all-time, somehow managed to avoid one another during their ’70s prime, but the two former champs did come oh, so close to getting it on in 1999. » Read More
Happy Birthday To The Great Larry Holmes
-Former world heavyweight king Larry Holmes celebrates his 69th birthday today. » Read More
Larry Holmes: Is He Top-Five All-Time?
-Most lists you come across, practically all top-10 greatest heavyweight champions lists, have Larry Holmes in there somewhere. » Read More
40 Years On: Recalling The Great Holmes-Norton Battle
-June 9, 1978 – Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.
Unbeaten and, to his own disgust, largely ignored heavyweight contender Larry Holmes was getting a shot at the WBC crown. » Read More