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By Eric Thomas: WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman says heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder’s performance last Saturday night against Bermane Stiverne reminded him at times of great heavyweights of the past in Larry Holmes, Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson.
By Todd C: Today, let’s take a look at the life and accomplishments of Larry “The Easton Assassin” Holmes. When looking at the Heavyweight division of the past, stuck in the era between the great Muhammad Ali and the always media friendly Mike Tyson, Holmes’ name often gets overlooked. Holmes is one of the few fighters to have faced both of the aforementioned fighters. Holmes had a long (1973-2002) and busy career, competing in 75 total bouts.
By Allan Fox: IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (60-3, 51 KO’s) will be passing former heavyweight world champion Larry Holmes next month as the heavyweight champion with the 2nd longest world title reign. Holmes is in 2nd place with having previously held a world title for 7 years and three months, according to Dan Rafael.
Wladimir will be toping that next month once he goes past 7 years, three months and 12 days. Wladimir has held his IBF title since beating Chris Byrd by a 7th round TKO on April 22nd in 2006, and he’s successfully defended the belt 14 times. Even with Wladimir moving into 2nd place next month in the longest title reign department, he’ll still trail Holmes in the overall title defense department.
By John F. McKenna (McJack): Former heavyweight champion Larry Holmes still thinks a Pacquiao – Mayweather fight will happen. Holmes is seen by many boxing pundits as one of the most underrated heavyweight champions of all time. Holmes had the misfortune of following the great Muhammad Ali, who is high on everyone’s list as the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. But Holmes, who held the heavyweight championship from 1978 to 1985, was a great heavyweight champion in his own right. Holmes was second only to the immortal Joe Louis in title defenses with 20.
By Robert Elmore: The public has been screaming about crooked promoters, how there are too many belts floating around, and how pay per view view is killing boxing. Well, this may come as a shock to some, but nothing stays the same. Nonetheless, thousands of fans sit in front of their TV.’s if a fight is on Showtime or HBO. People still crank out money whenever a pay per view event occurs. Some fighters get more buys than others, but still the money is spent. People may ask why is boxing still going?
Former Heavyweight Champion of the World Larry Holmes has dismissed the current crop of heavyweight boxers as nothing more than ‘big and strong guys who don’t know how to fight.’
Speaking to Setanta Sports News Holmes said:
“If you want to prove yourself as a champion, you have to fight everybody and anybody who comes up and gives you that challenge. You have to prove yourself worthy of being Heavyweight Champion of the World.
Former heavyweight champion Larry Holmes (69-6, 44 KOs) is still bothered by his comment he made about former boxing great Rocky Marciano, when Holmes remarked “If you want to get technical about it, Rocky Marciano couldn’t carry my jockstrap,” after losing to challenger Michael Spinks in September 1985. The loss was even more disappointing because Holmes was 48-0 at the time of the fight and poised to tie Marciano’s long held record of 49-0.