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With cunning and a left jab, the saw and hammer of a boxer, Larry Holmes held David Bey off last week when the latest heavyweight stranger looked strong enough to rip right through Holmes' oaken arms. For four rounds, the only undefeated-and-recognizable champion in the world seemed in...
Just two seconds short of ten full rounds, a Las Vegas referee ended Bey's dream and Holmes' career. "It's been an exciting career for me," he said. "Let the history books record me, but I think I am a great fighter." So, as boxing understands the term, Holmes...
As Ezzard Charles' misfortune was to succeed Joe Louis, Holmes' sorest miscalculation came in following Muhammad Ali, who claimed to be bigger than boxing and was correct. Often graceless in public, Holmes has a gentler streak that comes out in private, for instance, when discussing Ali, whom he served as...
...things in, and I just waved. It wouldn't be right for the world heavyweight champion to be crying." Having seen Ali wander from Louisville to Chicago to Los Angeles, Holmes knew enough never to leave Easton, his home since childhood. "Back there, I can keep up with the Holmeses and leave those Joneses alone," he says. Financially, Holmes is secure, though he admits, "If I had got the $10 million I was supposed to have got with Cooney, I'd probably be long done." Like every boxer, he came to learn, "I had all these people taking money...
Further the Red Raiders looked wear and inexperienced in that showing. At one point, freshman Mark Holmes tied the puck up against the board, and held it there, without anyone pressuring him, for long enough to draw a race delay-of-game penalty.