Steve Bunce: Larry Holmes Interview

[patharris1996]

My favorite soup am the campbell soup

[ilovefrankandbeans]

i like john holmes better...big penis

[MrBrunothedog]

@ilovefrankandbeans LOOL

[RurickTheGreat]

He had no idea who haye was, first he was talking aboult calzaghe, then he was saying that haye was undefeated (thompson). Larry put his bs face on but couldn't pull it off.

[hotrodd29]

Bunce is a big fan of Larry.......... Haawmes lol

[benjpaine300]

was anyone else thinkin yer this guy has some good points then he said harrison lol

[jrgniuwer]

yeah.... audley harrison definatly slept alright! lol!

[jarvobrrrrap]

@jrgniuwer lol dont give up on him he will come back when he is 44 and do a george forman lol

[jrgniuwer]

@jarvobrrrrap IM NOT GIVING UP ON HIM I SAID LEGEND AND UNDERATED :)

[jrgniuwer]

if you open any dictionary and look up 'larry holmes' there will be 2 words there.....LEGEND and... UNDERATED!

[MrKongboi]

steve "kev byrne" bunce

[bigmace1000]

A young Ali would have beat Larry up.....

[lukedalegend]

i like the way larry say's that joe should keep his nose clean. obviously dismissed his advice lol

[ArchitectOfEvil]

Anyway, nobody gives a shit about boxing anymore. Who is heavy weight champ? Noone cares.

[ArchitectOfEvil]

@ArchitectOfEvil The sport is too full of divers and Don King rip off artists.

[Dungeondust]

3:37. Man, I didn't even watch this video and HOLMES is saying the same thing about Bernard Hopkins that I said. Hopkins, Hit's Hold, Hits Hold. Bernard Hopkins Stinks. He rob the sport of boxing and got away clean with a stinking style. O, Long Live Larry Holmes.

[500bhpcossie]

larry homes never bullyed tyson at all he never lyed a bule print what a prick homes was backing up the whole fight tyson creamed him easy 4 4 rounds and show how much he knows because aduly harrison continued to flop

[FIGHTFANFORLIFE]

Bunce says "Audley Harrison is just as good as the "SO-CALLED" heavyweight champions at the moment. LOL!!! Bunce is a retard. Didn't Harrison get smacked around by a Irish cab driver? Anyway, Bunce needs to start aknowledging the greatness of the slavic heavies. God dam English sissy boy!!!

[rapeyou8991]

fuck that british bald fucktard, TYSON DESTROYS ANYONE YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!

[MultiGreat1]

@rapeyou8991 No he does not, Tyson was great but no the GREATEST.

[bluemoonomen]

holmes...one of the greats!

[xcalumt91x]

love what spinks said about fighting everyone to prove your the man shame boxings not like that anymore

[OrthodoxSteel]

Holmes was always bitter. Look at him. In 9 minutes he makes out that Ken Norton was a good fighter and that the Klitschkos and Foreman were not. What a bitter. I bet he is a Toffee and all. Bitter Bitter Bitter.

[ArchitectOfEvil]

He's not bitter. He's just sensible. He's got one of the best hearts in boxing. You don't know what you are talking about.

He's intelligent and very humble.

[KLC899]

Sorry Bunce Tyson won every round against Holmes and then KO'd him badly in the 4th. And everyone knew how to beat Tyson, that you have to push him back, thats how you beat any swarming puncher--its just that no one had the physicality or composure to do it.

[Blackson187]

Tyson beat himself. He pissed away his prime when he stopped taking his career seriously and associated himself with Don King. No one was going to push away 1987 Mike Tyson.

[ArchitectOfEvil]

Oh really?

Everyone knew how to beat Tyson? Here's another jerk talking shit and repeating shit like a parrot.

Tyson was 32-0 when he fought Holmes. Noone actually "knew" how to beat him.

Talk is cheap. Also, Holmes was at the end of his career and making a comeback after being totally ripped off against Spinks in their 2nd fight.

[KLC899]

Yes I am repeating stuff like a parrot, but what I am repeating is basically common knowledge in boxing. And if you listen to the cornermen in Tyson's fights vs guys like Biggs and Berbick you will see that the advice they give is what Douglas and Holyfield were later able to implement. And I'm not knocking Holmes by the way. He was indeed over the hill and coming off a long layoff. But Bunce was trying to make this fight seem close, and it wasn't. There's no need to hurl insults either.

[ArchitectOfEvil]

Ok I shouldn't throw insults.

You have a point about keeping Tyson out of range. But you are a little bit ignorant.

That's not hurling insults. I'm just saying that you are ignorant of something. I'll tell you what it is:

An in-fighter has an advantage over an out-fighter. An out-fighter has an advantage over a puncher, and a puncher has an advantage over an out-fighter.

Tyson is an in-fighter. Homes is an out-fighter.

[ArchitectOfEvil]

I made an error.

A puncher has an advantage over an in-fighter

[ArchitectOfEvil]

Tyson has the advantage in style match up, and he was 17 years younger than Holmes and in his beast like manliness prime.

[Galactus247]

Crap analysis by Steve Bunce. Both Holmes and Tyson were slightly overrated fighters in their prime. Holmes had problems with big punchers and didn't clean up the division (like Tyson and Ali did) to become undisputed champ. Can't really be on the 'GREATS' hit-list if ur not undisputed or beat a reigning undisputed champ. Shame Holmes didn't fight Page, Dokes, Thomas, Coetzee, Tubbs and avoided return bouts with Weaver, Cooney, Witherspoon, Snipes! Tyson came along when all these boys turned old

[ArchitectOfEvil]

Holmes was extremely under rated dick head!

[Galactus247]

ArchitectOfEvil. Lol. Nice of you to call names when sum1 tells the TRUTH & rattles your little cage! Are U out yet? I rattled yr cage hard with yr 4 Donut responses!

Holmes WAS Overrated! He came in at right time, didn't have to face MONSTERS like Foreman, Frazier, Liston, & prime Ali etc. Nearly got KO'd by old Shavers & young inexperienced Snipes & Witherspoon. With more wisdom, Snipes & Spoon would have SMASHED Holmes! Holmes was LUCKY! Next MONSTER Holmes faced was TYSON & we know result!

[ArchitectOfEvil]

Mate, let the record set it straight.

Holmes beat all them guys. No excuses mate. He won them.

And you are just a wanker that has a few favourites, and you reckon they are the only good fighters.

Stop talking about luck. It's got nothing to do with it.

[ArchitectOfEvil]

And what's more, the funniest thing about our argument. Do you know?

The funniest thing is, you gave me minus 1 on all my comments.

But you have -4, not from me at all.

Hahahahaha

[Galactus247]

I don't give a shit about my comments ratings, unlike you.

Freedom of speech regardless!

Looks like you love HOLMES so much, have made love with him yet??

Bet you DREAM of him everynite!

[ArchitectOfEvil]

I got nothing against speech. Just against stupidity. I'm like a LaVeyan Satanist.

About the ratings.. don't assume what I care about.

[ArchitectOfEvil]

And you totally don't know what you are bloody talking about. You are ridiculous.

What? He wasn't undisputed champ?

He fought every contender there was. He beat them all.

Just to show what an idiot you are:

After beating Snipes, Snipes only won 1 of his next 6 fights and then won a few fights in 86 when Holmes had retired.

Witherspoon lost to Holmes in 83, Holmes lost the title after that to Spinks. It's similar to the Snipes scenario.

[FlaviusConstantius]

Holmes didn't even come close to fighting "every contender out there". He never fought Dokes, Page, Thomas, Tubbs, Tate or Coetzee. In fact he never fought any of the other champions. Most of his title defenses were mismatches against journeymen or novice level heavyweights.

[ArchitectOfEvil]

@FlaviusConstantius You are a dumb idiot. Get it?

That means an IQ of 25. Not a moron with a high IQ of 75.

Read my comments here below or above exactly related to the names you just RE-mentioned. Someone said that a year ago bozo. What a waste of our time.

Have a read. Those guys were not even very good. WTF you talking about? Have a read of my comments.

[FlaviusConstantius]

@ArchitectOfEvil A dumb idiot, eh? Does that mean there are idiots who aren't dumb? You need not worry on that score, as you're clearly in the first category.

All those guys held a portion of the title and had a lengthy spell in the top ten and most assuredly were much more talented and dangerous than Zanon, Evangelista, Leon, Cobb, LeDoux, Marvis, Ocasio and the rest of the bum of the month club Holmes defended against.

[ArchitectOfEvil]

@FlaviusConstantius Yes. Some idiots are smarter than you because they don't try to argue. They know they are idiots.

You could not count to my IQ. it's above 150. You couldn't count the IQ of an idiot, it's above 10.

Are you saying Leon Spinks sucks as a fighter? Good one man. You must be smart huh?

[FlaviusConstantius]

Ha, you're too dumb to realize how dumb you sound. None of your blithering can hide that there are about a dozen prime quality heavyweights active in Holmes' prime that he never faced. If Holmes is underrated then he's the most overrated underrated fighter who ever lived.



IQ of 150, eh? Well done, we're all proud of you. You certainly hide it well though. Like a millionaire who sweeps the roads.

[ArchitectOfEvil]

@FlaviusConstantius Why are you proud of me? Do you define your self worth by my ability?

What's wrong with a millionaire that sweeps roads? At least he fucking works. Not like most rich people that make money from other people's sweat.

A dozen? Fucking hell. That shows you are a jerk. So there are dozens of possible undisputed world champs are there? In his time or any time?

Snap out of it.

[FlaviusConstantius]

@ArchitectOfEvil We're all proud of you, my friend. An IQ of 150 is not to be sniffed at, naturally.

A millionaire who sweeps the roads is not likely to be mistaken for a millionaire. Likewise a genius who acts the dimwit is not likely to be mistaken for a genius.

Yes a dozen. At least. Holmes turned pro in 1973 and lost to Spinks in 1985. Want me to list all the top fighters active in that timeframe that he never faced?

[ArchitectOfEvil]

@FlaviusConstantius I'm not a genius, they have very high IQ's like 180.

Couple of things... which black guy in that era was gonna fight Gerrie Coetzee? Where was he from? How many fights did he have outside South Africa?

What about Tate.. Tate was leading on all scorecards going into the last round when Weaver landed a punch to the chin that left the champion unconscious on the canvas for several minutes.

[FlaviusConstantius]

Coetzee had lots of fights outside SA... he fought Dokes, Thomas and Snipes in the US. Last I checked all those guys were black, as were Weaver, Tillis, Page and Tate. Enough for you?

Tate was a fine boxer who was vulnerable against sluggers, not gonna be an issue in a Holmes fight. He would have presented a much stiffer challenge than Marvis, Zanon, Rodriguez and the rest, wouldn't you say?

[ArchitectOfEvil]

Also Tate made a comeback against Trevor Berbick but was KO'd by a hit to the back of the head.

Tate became the object of ridicule after these humiliating losses. Although he fought until 1988, he was never again taken seriously as a challenger. That's from the Wiki.

As for the other guys, I don't think it's simply the way you are trying to impress, that is, that Holmes was scared or had no chance. The sport is corrupt to start with, and political to say the least. Fuck Don King.

[FlaviusConstantius]

Holmes wasn't the scared type. But it's clear he was taking the path of least resistance for much of his career. He missed most of the golden era heavies, despite turning pro in '73, and missed most of the other champions when he was champ in the 80s.

He came along at a time when ABC were willing to pay him to face anyone, and he faced anyone. Why risk getting beat by a Thomas, a Dokes or a Page when you can make good money fighting Euro champs and fringe contenders?

[ArchitectOfEvil]

Holmes beat Cooney, then Cooney only had a few more fights before retiring himself.

Holmes beat Weaver when he was 51 and Weaver was 39. That was Weavers last fight.

On the other note: the fighters he didn't fight.

Tubbs had never worked his way up to contention before Holmes was retiring.

Then when Holmes was retired, Tubbs lost to Witherspoon, whom Holmes had defeated 3 years earlier. Page also lost to Witherspoon.

[ArchitectOfEvil]

Holmes started earlier than Dokes, and remained undefeated for 48 fights. Dokes had already lost a fight 3 years earlier against Coetzee. So it was bad timing.

Coetzee started a year after Holmes and lost 3 fights before Holmes even lost 1.

Maybe they weren't the contenders?

Later when Holmes made comebacks there were probably good reasons he didn't fight them then either.

Holmes fought everyone. He was the best sportsman.

[ArchitectOfEvil]

I've shown that you are extremely superficial and ignorant I must add.

You obviously don't care about analysing anything properly. You just like big explosions

[Squire2222]

'audley harrison is my sleeper success of 2007'. comments like this are the reason i think wlad will take haye apart when they fight. haye is getting the same hype now that harrison got a few years ago

[shareschannel]

Holmes would have beat foreman

[Bunceyboy1]

no way foreman was a hard hitter holmes wasn't

[shareschannel]

Im talking in larry holmes prime, he would have out classed foreman - and even in there fortys i still think he would have took foreman

[vinniedurrant]

definetly holmes would have boxed formans head off and possibly stopped him later on imo

[lizardman77]

Holyfield bat Tyson by playing matador, pure and simple. Let the bull charge in and side step him. Holmes was great and never gets the recognition that he should, George didn't want to fight Holmes cuz he'd lose. He never wanted to fight Shavers either.

[ProfRogers]

Lol funny seeing Larry get confused between Haye & Calzaghe. But yeah Larry Holmes is definately one of the best of all time. He had it all. Best Jab EVER, Heart, Chin, Stamina, Brilliant Boxer!

[SmelOdies]

Yes, and then Bunce and the other guy went on to confuse Holyfield with Douglas as the first guy to beat Tyson.

[tairanman]

no he didnt!

[jessisweetheart]

Wow what a nice guy! Good on ya' Larry :)

[JoeFraze]

Steve Bunce is the one who's punch-drunk. He musty be crazy to expect Audley Harrison to do anything. It's a shocking comment.

[ihatelifejosemartine]

Larry Holmes is NOT Punch drunk. He still has his brains, and is an extremely SHARP businessman.

[holmes1978]

Larry Holmes is # 1 !!!

[rtfuhj]

1.ali

2.tyson

3.mayweather

[dougm1971]

i agree with bunce that holmes is under-rated...but, i dont agree with his memory of holmes v tyson..how he describes pushing tyson off etc sounds more like the douglas v tyson fight...holmes didnt push tyson off in their fight...bunce forgets some of us have actually seen that fight :-)

[steve12168]

Bunce doesn't know anywhere near as much as he likes to think he does. He seems to forget that some of his audience have been around a bit.

[makajam]

haha...hayes is calzaghe...larry is punchdrunk!

[jozza5589]

oh yeh whoops he explained

[jozza5589]

kl...did he get haye confused with calzaghe theer haha