Larry Holmes: Today’s heavyweights are no big hitters

May 15, 2008 · Filed under: Boxing History, Boxing News · 147 views  

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.

“Fighting Mike Tyson, I was out of my prime a little bit. I retired, I came back. He beat me. But, you know what? It was a good fight from me, it was a good fight from him and it put a whole new grudge on it. And that’s what really makes a champion.”

A career highlight for Holmes was his WBC Heavyweight title bout against Ken Norton, where the pair battled it out toe to toe for 15 rounds. He said:

“Fighters don’t do that anymore. They don’t fight 15 rounds, they barely fight ten rounds. We were in terrific shape, we had a great time out there and I became victorious that night.”

Holmes is confident that if Great Britain’s Joe Calzaghe gets to fight Roy Jones Jnr, there will only be one winner. He said:

“Roy Jones doesn’t take the best punches anymore, but he still has quick hands and he still punches well. If he [Calzaghe] lets Roy’s clowning and showboating get to him he’ll be in trouble. But if he goes in concentrating on what he’s got to do, he hasn’t got a problem.”

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