Larry Holmes vs Lorenzo Zanon
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- Larry Holmes vs Lorenzo Zanon
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Love watching these old fights from when I was just a kid. Love hearing Cosell too.
Another sparring session for Larry Holmes.
Zanon gave everybody fits. He good timing and skill . He fought in the arguably best era in heavyweight boxing.
Cosell was too critical of the Champion. Holmes held the belt for over 5 years and respect that.
Cosell never liked Larry Holmes. Just listen to his garbage calling of the Larry Holmes vs Leon Spinks fight. Leon never had Holmes "rattled" or "losing his cool" as Cosell called it.
Cosell was being a biased, jerk. All that came out of his mouth was brown fecal matter that came from the south end of a bovine animal.
@@tomhowells7617Cosell can rest in piss
For a guy who looked like a forklift driver, Zanon had a surprising amount of skill.
Howard Coshell, never had a nice word about Holmes, 7.5 years undisputed and quite a case for the GOAT, yet Coshell just sniped at every fight, finally retiring after Holmes battered Tex Cobb's.
He was upset about the Ali fight I suspect
@@GuyFromTheSouth at this point, Holmes hadn't fight Ali yet
Was never undisputed, never unified titles, droped wbc to have new Ibf title were he could dictate who he could defend aginst.
@@akuzatiivs that's right. Holmes was a very good fighter, he is the one i enjoy the most watching but i agree about the fact that he should have fight Page, Coetzee, Dokes, Jimmy Young, John Tate, Berbad Mercado etc and should had given rematches to weaver, witherspoon, Williams. And you're right, it's a shame that Holmes didn't try to unify the titles. But we shouldn't forget that Larry became champion close to 30 years old, so he tried to capitalize the much possible on his WBC belt. And we should remember that except vs Cooney, he wasn't given enough money to fight the best opposition, so he tried to capitalise by fighting a weaker opposition, wich i can totally understand, to earn the best possible money. I don't think it had soemthing to do with fear at all, it was just a buisness matter. For example by the end of1983 he was offered much more money to fight Marvis Frazier than Greg Page... who would honestly take the risk to fight a better fighter for less money ?
@@emzid5105
Agreed
That was a low moment for Howard.
O lutador de calção Branco além de ser mais velho não tem condições de lutar com esse Larry não passou a luta toda sem bater com com vontade e sem saber bater
Larry Holmes was smart fighter and always well spoken. handled that interview well I thought.
I know that Howard is an icon, but what fight is he watching?? How do you use lateral movement when you're walking a guy down??
exactly what i tought. To move and dance against a fighter like Zanon would have been a nonsense tactically.
Great Larry..i love him...also as a great person .... I m italian and i love sport......this fight was very correct by both parts... Larry superior...but Zanon as said the great Larry was a good fighter in this match....💪🥊❤️
Larry Holmes un superclase y además tenía mucho valor y coraje
Howard made a small mistake at the beginning. Carew was already a 7 time batting champion at the time
I'd say Cosell had a vendetta against Holmes for using his boy Ali as a punching bag...but that hadn't happened yet. This came first
I hated to see Ali get battered like that. Larry idolized him. But this is the fight game and Ali was an adult. He had been fighting since 1960. He knew what he was signing up for. Still, I have images of Holmes begging the referee to stop the fight, in my head. What a mess.
@@DrSeuss-nv9hw That's why I don't understand why Holmes was a villain. What was he supposed to do, take a dive? Finish him off with a thunderous hook? Ali fans are ridiculous sometimes
@@ReflectionOfPerfection ...I'm an Ali fan, but will try to take a logical approach to looking at things. Holmes respects him, but what if he just flicks the jab all night, then Ali catches him with a knockout blow? Ali was an adult. Whoever sanctioned the fight was/were adults. The doctor that examined Ali, pre-fight, was an adult (Ali was already exhibiting signs of neurological damage). The referee was an adult. Holmes just did what was required by his job. The man was one of the all time greats in the Heavyweight division. I don't know what people want from him.
Zanon was an excellent boxer (undisputed European Champion beating opponents such as Alfredo Evangelista) but due to an accident he had a disability in his right leg which limited him and made his right punch less powerful.
Was Zanon one of the bad guys in the Naked Gun 2? The guy that explodes? 🤔
Thought Howard Cosell was a bit out of order here. Holmes didn't have to be at his best this fight, he was doing as he wanted with Zannon.
La mejor época de los pesos pesados
As a champion you can't fight superstar opponents in every defence you have to deal with this kind of limited challenger too and get little credit for winning.
Holmes was a class of his own not just in this fight but every fight
Even today's celebrities don't have the same class and style of celebrities past...
I'd like to see today ' bigs ' get up on their toes the way Holmes and others of this era did.
Sad to see Julio from Sanford and Son get beaten like that.
You big dummy! Julio was Puerto Rican
Huh what okay!
Larry Holmes really didn't need to unify. He clearly was the best heavyweight in the world at this point...Page nor Coetze wouldn't have beaten him. I don't think Cosell could ever get past worshipping Ali. In this fight, Larry evaluated what Zanon had and took him out. It wasn't nearly as complicated as Cosell unfairly was making it out to be.
Also, Holmes has the lineal title from Ali. Holmes defeated the men who defeated Page and Coetzee. Berbick, Bey, and Witherspoon defeated Page. Holmes defeated Berbick, Bey, and Witherspoon. Weaver defeated Coetzee. Holmes stopped Weaver.
@@76WestSports 👍
Zanon... didn't do well with American fighters lost to Norton And Quarry before this fight
Holmes was the best champion at the back end of the 70,s through to the mid eighties. Todays heavyweights weren’t good enough to be sparring partners for holmes let alone fighting him. Heavyweights now have about as much skill as an infant in a play pen.
Today's guys would have trouble with the movement.
you're extremely biased. there are quite a few heavyweights that could give larry a lot of trouble
@@ucheshi2619 it’s not being biased at all, you can’t give me a name of the current heavyweights because none of them are at that level. None of today’s so called top ten could fight with Witherspoon, Thomas, dokes, tubbs , weaver or Holmes. Sorry to say it being a boxing fan but heavyweight boxing now is a joke.
he knocked him down 4 times. How is that a bad performance?? Larry never got the Respect he earned as one of the Best Heavyweights of all time.
Grandissimo Zanon un saluto da un tuo cugino un po alla lontana Giuseppe mia nonna sartori di Marostica VICENZA👋👍💪👌🚘🏐
Cosell knew how to hype any event and give drama to it. That said, his boxing knowledge was second-rate at best. I understand that he didn’t see his first boxing match until he started his sports career (he started as a lawyer and switched to sports announcing in his 30s) and he had to be given notes by ringside boxing experts to sound halfway competent about the action in front of him. If the way a fighter fought didn’t fit his narrative, he became highly critical. And it was annoying as hell. The worst example of this was his call of the Ali-Bonavena fight, where it was “Ali isn’t what he used to be” ad nauseum. I understand this cost him a spot on the announcing team for Frazier-Ali I, as promoter Jerry Perenchio, who hired Cosell for Ali-Bonavena, was yelling, “Just shut up and call the damn fight!”
Redd Foxx!
Zanon non-existent in this match. No jaw, no power, no technique. Just the chance to earn some money.
Another example of side betting effecting the flow of a fight. Pretty clearly, Holmes had money on a 4th Rd KO, and apparently also in the 6th if necessary. . He essentially sleepwalked and refused to throw the right hand 1-3 and again in the 4th. This is a rather common occurrence in such situations,where the Champ looks rather disinterested while going thru the motions creating the impression of an "off night" for the favorite and the Challenger looks better than expected...And then the money round comes up and the Champ calmly dispatches of the nuisance and goes home.....
Kind of a mismatch really
The alphabet organizations overrated Zanon by quite a bit.
@Exar No, he was not in the ring magazines top ten in 1980.
@ExarPull up Ring ratings January 1980. It’s on line.
@Exar He fought Holmes in March of 1980. He wasn’t in the Ring’s top 10. He was ko’d by a one armed Jerry Quarry in 1977. Quarry re-retired after the fight.
@Exar Ok. Zanon was one of the best. You win.
Zanon was robbed
On the plane going home!
Yeh they stole his toupee