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Originally Posted by sortie
Reynaldo Snipes only got one lucky punch that stunned Holmes for a while so I don't
count that.
Maybe he wanted to be "the best ever" but I think it was more like he wanted to
be given his just respect for missing the Marciano record by one fight and that
fight was a farce because Holmes won it for sure. And people celebrated that
Holmes didn't break the record. Now that's lack of respect.
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They didn't like Holmes, and he didn't do anything to make them like him. I will spend exactly 45 seconds thinking about this:
HEAVYWEIGHTS WHO WOULD BEAT LARRY HOLMES:
Mike Tyson
George Foreman
Sonny Liston
Muhammad Ali
Ike Ibeabuchi
Lennox Lewis
Evander Holyfield
And that's without giving it any serious thought. I would give either K brother a good chance against him, and I would make a young David Tua the favorite against him, although he's not a lock.
Larry wasn't far from his prime when he got beat by Spinks, a man MUCH smaller than him, and he DID lose that second fight no question about it. He gets credit a lot of times for having the 'best' jab, when Ali's was MUCH better. Had he been born a couple generations earlier, there would be no need to debate his greatness, because he would have had some L's hung on him right quick.
Again: You're trying to talk about fighters who don't get enough respect. Holmes, in all likelihood, gets more than he deserves. For what it's worth, I DO think he won the first Spinks fight and should have got that record, and sure as hell he would kick Marciano's ass all over the ring.