Prime Larry Holmes vs. Prime Muhammad Ali

Tantum · Post by **Tantum** » 28 Jun 2005, 12:17

I bet 56 year old Larry Holmes would knock your ass out with one "girly" right hand.

ringsider · Post by **ringsider** » 28 Jun 2005, 14:44

I bet I would knock you out, with one of my right hands...

....so what?

Totybear · Post by **Totybear** » 28 Jun 2005, 17:17

ringsider wrote:
I liked your points, I agreed with your outcome, but to suggest he hit like a girl!!!!!!!!!
Totybear I did not say Larry hit like a girl. I said he threw a right hand like a girl. There is a difference.

Point taken, but I think you were being a bit harsh. He may not have had the greatest right hand in heavyweight history but IMO it was reasonablely accurate and hard enough to deal with most.

It just irks me to see in these threads over a short time I have read that Holmes had no body punches, no left hook, no foot movement, no right hand etc etc. It seems to me he has done remarkably well for a man with a left jab and a right uppercut.

For all that a prime Ali would have danced rings round him and boxed his head off!!! (Not literally before someone jumps on me)

Sweet Scientist · Post by **Sweet Scientist** » 01 Jul 2005, 15:23

ringsider wrote:I bet I would knock you out, with one of my right hands... ....so what?

If you threw it as well as Larry Holmes...

Sweet Scientist · Post by **Sweet Scientist** » 01 Jul 2005, 15:24

Tantum wrote:I bet 56 year old Larry Holmes would knock your ass out with one "girly" right hand.

We wouldn't really want to see that...I've seen enough dead people...