Your favorite fight that showcased the jab

Cool...now you guys get yourselves a room. :Thumbs:

We don't like witnessing this mutual ball licking...

 

Poor Stafford...once a troll, always a troll.

Please tell us again how Alan Minter was a brawler.

 

Speaking of ball-licking...

 

Yep. Holmes showed his heart and resilience in that fight. At the time, I was actually pulling for him NOT to get up. ::

 

hussien - pacquiao

 

like i said - it was all set up by the jab

 

Holmes was definitely a "bitter winner" as somebody else once said (I dont remember who)

 

Absolutely. All he ever did was bitch, bitch, bitch about everything. The guy was a friggin' 7th grade drop out who went from working in a car wash for something like a buck per hour to becoming a millionaire in his early 30's, you would think he would have been at least a little happy once in a while. Holmes was a great fighter but i always cheered against him because I was so tired of listening to him complain.

 

You remember that fight like it was yesterday don't you old man.

Anyway..I'll stop trolling you for the time being.

I never liked Larry Holmes I must admit. Always wanted him to lose. But there's no denying that he was a great fighter. Sure, he seemed to have ducked a few fighters, but the dude had sklls and heart in abundance.

 

Interestingly, Holmes has become somewhat more likeable in old age... quicker to laugh, quicker to smile

though, trying to understand him in his Elmer Fudd voice can be difficult

 

:bears::bears::bears:

 

To be honest, I don't see much of a difference in the quality of your posts whether you are trolling or "not" (term used loosely) trolling. It's all pretty much the same to me.

And, if you were watching that fight when it happened...that 7th round is not one to be forgotten. It really did look for a brief time that Shavers was the new champ...but Holmes got thru it. I was 16 at the time. but it's one of those boxing moments that will stick with me forever.

Anyhoo...I never denied Holmes was a great fighter. I have said he is a top 5 all time heavy many, many times. His oppsition wasn't the greatest, and there were some fights he should have taken, but he's easily one of the best ever at heavy.

 

Yeah, Holmes has mellowed over the years. I hate him much less now than when he was fighting. He is still good for an asshole quote now and then, but overall seems like a more likeable guy now.

 

Yeah.

Cooper was the guy in the vid, on the DLH-Gonzalez undercard. De La Hoya showed a really good jab against Gonzalez. I remember in one sequence, I think the 4th round, he hits him with 4 straight jabs to the face.

 

Great example of the "power" jab to the body that brings the hands down and quickly going upstairs with the right!

Tommy Hearns did it beautifully against Duran. He set up the jab from the first round on, and used two flicking decoy jabs in the second round just to get a reaction and measure distance; when Duran bought his hands down to guard against those jabs to the body, BOOM!!! That masterful right hand destroyed Duran!

 

his quotes about Foreman are often hilarious

"You don't need a Foreman Grill, all you gotta do is tilt the pan. Stop lyin to the people, George!"
--Larry Holmes

 

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My favourite is still the post fight presser after he lost the first Spinks fight.

 

That'll make you 47/48. Cool


We agree on Holmes and the Holmes-Shavers fight.

 

Eddie Murphy's take on that interview still makes me scream every time I hear it. And the rest....

'It's a good thoup, it's a hot thoup, it's a chunky soup, it's a liquid thoup. It's both a liquid and a chunky at the thame time.'

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"when I bite in to a York peppermint pattie, I get the themthat... themthation... fuck, dat's a hard word to thay... I get a themthation that I'm runnin through the woodth and little chilren are thprinklin cool water on my butt":atu:

 

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I stick that clip on at least once a month.

 

Any fight with Poison Junior Jones!!!!:Ramonza:

 

Post it!!!!