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...they pay me right, I'll be back one more time," he agrees, but there seems no one left to fight. After Bey, Bonecrusher Smith and Tim Witherspoon, it is hard to go back to ordinary opponents. Just two more victories and Holmes would pull even with Rocky Marciano; a third match and his lasting record could be 50-0, the roundest figure in boxing since Buster Mathis. But Holmes appears to be impervious to such things, and it is just as well...
...Holmes would be pleased. "But I don't think he's coming back, do you? Deep down inside, Cooney really don't impress himself." By this standard, Holmes is fulfilled. "As a boxer, you got to put me up there with all of the top three," he figures, "Marciano, Louis and Muhammad Ali. I just didn't have the charisma. If Ali came in here now (Holmes is speaking in a restaurant), right away he would start shadowboxing with you. But I can't be that way. I'd be afraid of sticking a thumb in your eye." Meanwhile...
...John L. Sullivan, and Biggs' flaws are that he has no charisma and cannot punch. But the state of the division must hearten him: it is the main reason boxing seems moribund again. When Dempsey went, he was taking boxing with him. Then Louis came along. Marciano. Ali. Sugar Ray Leonard made the welterweights the heavyweights, and this is slim Breland's slender hope too. The first opponent served up to him (from more than a half foot below) was better than the best Cuban he ever fought. "He looked at me like...
...YORK -- Unbeaten Larry Holmes, casting aside Gerrie Coetzee, will fight James "Bonecrusher" Smith for the International Boxing Federation heavyweight title Nov. 9 when he continues his quest to catch the ghost of Rocky Marciano...
...timetable for Holmes, who will be 35 on Nov. 3, calls for him to fight five more times. If he wins all five, he would be 50-0 -- and surpass the late Marciano's unblemished record...