Holmes possessed one of the fastest most accurate and powerful jabs in boxing history.

@HarryHeath-pb6rv

8 ай бұрын

Right here Holmes was like superman just ready oiled up and prime-time he beat on Jones like a heavy bag threw slashing hands on him beat on him like a big brisket of beef wow

I never heard of Leroy untill today but damn ! He went toe to toe with my all time favorite in his prime .

I remember watching this fight when it aired on ABC TV ch 7. It was broadcasted as "Night of Champions" with 4 consecutive title defenses. Gregory beating Johnson for the light heavyweight title, Weaver knocking out Tate in the 15th round for the WBA heavyweight title, Sugar Ray successful KO against Green and concluded with this fight and I stayed awake watching every fight on a Friday night

@jogman262

4 жыл бұрын

Dude thanks! I was trying to remember the other title fights that evening. I remember this one, Tate-Weaver, but couldn't recall the other ones.

@jogman262

4 жыл бұрын

I just looked it up, there was actually a fifth championship fight not televised. Marvin Camel defeated Mate Parlov for the vacant WBC Cruiserweight title.

@gl6996

4 жыл бұрын

I saw it live too. John Tate is from the same are I'm from. We were all shocked when/how he got ko'd...

@robertbisbal6252

3 жыл бұрын

@@jogman262 .. wow I never knew that. Thanks for the info. It must have been a preliminary title bout.

@robertbisbal6252

3 жыл бұрын

@@gl6996 ..Yeah that 15th rd KO was surprising. Tate was dominating the majority of the whole until he just ran out of gas and fell like a tree face first on the mat.

Rip Leroy Jones love you pops 🙏 💔 💙

Holmes' prime began with this fight and extended to his brutal beating of Tex Cobb. During that time period, Holmes was one of the best heavyweights of all-time.

@jogman262

4 жыл бұрын

I think when Witherspoon took him to a split decision, it showed a little downslide.

@NoName-gv6nm

4 жыл бұрын

@@jogman262 atleast he pulled through and kept on rolling. That's the sign of a great champion.

@johnulmer1622

3 жыл бұрын

@@jogman262 Yeah, but that was the best version of a motivated 'Spoon. He was a helluva fighter, when motivated and in-shape. Supremely talented.

@torvilasulvstle362

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! He is so underrated!

@emzid5105

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnulmer1622 oh yes. I really like Holmes but the more i rewatch the fight, the more i feel that Tim has won this fight. Amazing fighter, However Larry showed his big heart to survive.

"When he goes against Leroy Jones, a big fat blubbery guy, but he's unbeaten" - Howard Cosell.

@gl6996

4 жыл бұрын

A heavyweight championship fight...on a Monday nite!!! When boxing RULED!!! 🥊😠 🥊

@jogman262

4 жыл бұрын

4 other championship fights that night. Damn straight boxing ruled then. Now it's all Pay per View.

@gl6996

4 жыл бұрын

@@jogman262 Amen!!! And everybody understood that the order of undercard went from lightest weight up to the heavyweights, if titles were on the line. You think Mayweather, Canelo or GGG would fight as a undercard?

@jogman262

4 жыл бұрын

@@gl6996 Nope.

@ronmailloux9370

3 жыл бұрын

@Allen Wilson as you may have noticed big muscles and such do not always make a great champ...I give you tyson fury

0:20 --> "...a big, fat blubbery guy but who is unbeaten"...lol Oh, how times have changed.

A good jab is a thing of beauty!! The frustration of being hit with that same 🥊 must’ve been so aggravating. You know it’s coming yet you can’t bock it.

Holmes' body punching ability is vastly underrated. Best jab ever...but those body shots by a picture boxer are impressive.

I feel for Leroy , seem like a cool dude

@robertstdon9280

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah me too feel sorry for him .

@SPIDERM0OSE

3 жыл бұрын

Wat happened to him ?

@robertstdon9280

3 жыл бұрын

@@SPIDERM0OSE he got beat up .to nice to get beat up by Holmes

Leroy looks like don king imo lol

The Champ Larry Holmes Fighting a punching bag with legs. Larry is a master boxer and definitely one of the greatest fighters of all time.

Larry had to be thinking, what do I have to do to put this guy down!

They should have taken away two points from Jones before the first round for having such a nappy head!!

I didn't know Dolemite boxed too!!!

@jogman262

4 жыл бұрын

I thought he looked like a slimmed down Refrigerator Perry.

@gl6996

4 жыл бұрын

@@jogman262 Lol!!! Teeth and all...

@jogman262

4 жыл бұрын

@@gl6996 Little bigger fro too.

@gl6996

4 жыл бұрын

@@jogman262 Yes suuh...

Larry Holmes,this 18th day of July in 2020 at 17:10, rates 5th best heavyweight champion of the world, topping my list being Jack Johnson marginally ahead of Muhammed Ali and Joe Louis.The 4th spot belongs to Jack Dempsey and there in the 5th is Larry Holmes,6th George Foreman,7th Gene Tunney,8th Joe Frazier,9th Vladimir Klitscho and the 10th is for Rocky Marciano.The Galvenston giant I maintain was the greatest in the sense that he held the world championship at the time when the situation was horrible for people like him and surprisingly he prefered public to hate him rather than love him.He once said"I am black and they never let me forget it.I am black,alright,I'll never let them forget it.He made white people hate so intensely and he did not care.

Holmes could take on the super heavies with Jones, Cooney and Roy Williams

@gl6996

4 жыл бұрын

The referee Richard Green committed suicide after the Boom Boom Mancini-Duk Koo Kim fight. He felt guilty for not stopping that fight, which caused Kim's death. Duk Kuk Kim's mother committed suicide also. That was the fight that made boxing commissions change from 15 to 12 Rd fights.

@emzid5105

3 жыл бұрын

@@gl6996 i feel really sorry for Green in a way. He made a huge mistake by not stopping the fight earlier, but it unfornately happens, in sport's fighting? Even tho i really love boxing, it isn't just a game, it's extremly dangerous, and many fighters got at least "minor" brain damage at the end of their career.

@gl6996

3 жыл бұрын

@@emzid5105 I felt sorry for him too. Referees are in a catch-22. Listen to the fighters, their trainers or use your own judgement? Tough sport but I love it.

@tlig

3 жыл бұрын

All three were low-quality fighters though. No one mentions that.

ShoutOut Leroy ... Thats a Big Deal where Im from , NY State Armature

RIP MY DAD LEROY JONES LIVE YOU FOREVER 💔💔💔💔🕊️🕊️🕊️

Is that Gene Clark in the audience (2nd row, wearing a yellow shirt) ?

Don king can box!

@sonofapollo5892

4 жыл бұрын

Huh?

@zincalloy75

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking about that haha good one

@swedenoble6083

3 жыл бұрын

the only thing that Don King's famous for his stealing all the boxers money and killing two men point blank in card games and getting away with it 😉

@emzid5105

3 жыл бұрын

@@swedenoble6083 yeah he even did it with Holmes. He warned him that if he took the fight vs mike spinks and didn't take him out, he would loose on decision. It tells shows how this sport ( and many others ) is rigged...

00:25... Yea, he said that!

Both guys looking like someone's father, ESPECIALLY Leroy. He looked like one of those down homeeee fathers, from Jackson Mississippi, who just got home from a hard day at the plant, cut the grass, and then is really to slap some meat on the grill, grab a beer, and watch the game, before turning in.

Leroy be lookin like Dolemite lol

Randall Rex Cobb played in Many movies including Critical Condition and the the The 1979 Version of The Champ

and he was in Diggstown and many more

Jeez Larry just never seems to run out of gas neither

Gran barriga yenia ese jones

Easton Assassin. Nuff said.

There's no way you can get a blacker name, then Leroy Jones .

Amazing, One of the greatest fights in boxing history. Left speechless by the end.

I could see from before the bell Jones was in trouble

Howard Cosell was a hater of Larry Holmes

He has done a big belt of cocaine here ! Lol

bad bad leroy jones badest man in the whole damn town

respect too leroy

@lamarmartin6792

20 күн бұрын

Thank you for saying that bout my dad

Leroy Jones reminds me a little bid on Andy Ruiz. Both can/could fight but, most likely, will run out of gas if the 'lucky' punch don't come.

@emzid5105

3 жыл бұрын

Leroy had a real potential. You can see in the early rounds some of his slickness, some very good moves with the head and body and good speed with his hands. Good boxing ability but didn't seem to really work hard in training.

I wonder how Jones would have done againest Cooney .Jones one his first 24 and Cooney first 25 .Holmes made them both look bad .Jones lack power but to go 12 rounds with weaver so his chin may have been ok and shows heart .Perhaps he could surive Cooneys power and win on points.

@emzid5105

2 жыл бұрын

@Google Sucksballs Yep but he fought only 4 times during 8 years after the fight vs Holmes. Even Spinks destroyed him....

@emzid5105

2 жыл бұрын

@Google Sucksballs Of course but the forman's fight wan't legit neither. 4 fights in 8 years is just ridiculous.

@emzid5105

2 жыл бұрын

@Google Sucksballs ok my friend. Peace

Like the Buffalo Bills in their Superbowls, Leroy Jones was a legitimate heavyweight contender but just couldn't beat Larry Holmes in Larry's prime. Sad, but that's how it goes. Leroy wasn't a bum nor a blimp--He just fought the wrong guy. (Holmes' thumb in the third didn't help, either.)

This was the beginning of all the out of shape fighters started

Holmes came in at 211... That Weaver fight woke him up... Jones knew after the 1st round that maybe he was quick for his size, but Holmes was more than a beat faster... The last 10 seconds of R7 Holmes landed every punch. Mismatch...

@emzid5105

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair, he was sick before the fight vs weaver and he wasn't just pretending. He had huge fever and should never be in the ring that night. He even took an injection of antibiotics just before the fight. we can notice that since the 2 nd round, Holmes was sweating so much, that his shorts fell down lower than his jockstrap lol

@burtonrivera5253

3 жыл бұрын

@@emzid5105 it was probably the best fight of his career in my estimation... It's also my favorite because he was also out of shape a bit...you can see that he didn t respect Weaver until a couple left hooks arguably put him down. Maybe Weaver wasn t the best boxer out there, but as Larry found out, he was quite capable and hit pretty hard. He may have underestimated Weaver, but he won that fight with heart. As late as the 10th round Holmes got wobbled ( think it was a straight right )and even into the 11th he took a stiff left,so he pooled his strength and loaded up on that tremendous uppercut. Maybe one of the best fights that division had, for the era.

@emzid5105

3 жыл бұрын

@@burtonrivera5253 i agree. did you notice how many times Weaver hit him below the belt, we often talk about the cooney low blows but Weaver did exactly the same thing vs Holmes. Just a guess of course but i think Norton who was close to weaver advised him to use the low blow to slow him down. I also think that Holmes who was always searching recogntion tried to punch instaed of boxing vs weaver, that was a big mistake and like you said, it was nevethless one of his best fights cause he showed a great heart.

@burtonrivera5253

3 жыл бұрын

@@emzid5105 no I didn t take low blows into account.

@emzid5105

3 жыл бұрын

@@burtonrivera5253 rewatch the fight when you can an you'll see. I can tell you, many many hard shots straight into the balls

Larry Holmes god fight

3:11 "Holmes again fighting brilliantly, winning the first 6 rounds without trouble....BUT THERE IN THE 7TH ROUND, CARELESSNESS!!!!! Gotta love Howard Cosell

So Jones didn't like dentists?

Why is leroy look like Dolemite

65 now I am been an athlete all my life.drug cheats stand out like a sore thumb..but the truth prevails in later years the clean fighters have good health in later years .and visa versa. The drug cheats turn to shet and die.

on a given night Holmes could defeat anyone it is a toss up...vs young ali......he would box Louis to a points win...Joe HAD ALL KINDS OF TROUBLE WITH BOXERS.....I.E. Billy Conn.....oddly enough SONNY LISTON....with his ram rod jab would be interesting....Maricano would be tough for a few rounds but he would get sliced up...a young holmes vs a young holyfield ....edge to holmes....I think Holmes would be too busy for L. Lewis...or Vlad...k.....Vitali K.....would present a huge challenge holmes points win......

Man Jones face was a mess.

World champ boxer versus club boxer . Why did jones only have one more fight after this one

@bestgrimbarianever

4 жыл бұрын

he suffered a detached retina from this fight which pretty much ended his career eventually...

@fredsmith3575

2 жыл бұрын

Jones eye got damaged in this fight was told to retire detached retina but must of had one more fight any way .He was the North American champion but we never know how he would of done againest the 80s heavyweights .

leroy jones didnt turn out to be so bad...bad

Those jabs look so annoying haha

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damn, LEROY JONES had no kind of punching power, .. 24 Wins, - 0 Losses is cool, but only with 12 KNOCK OUTS ??? LOL LOL.......

@curtismcneil8695

4 жыл бұрын

He was a pretty good amateur fighter before he turned pro. His biggest win was over Mike Weaver. He was undefeated with one draw and at that time was ranked No.2 by the WBC. HE was deserving of a shot. No not a big puncher but he could get your attention.

@bigdaddy4069

4 жыл бұрын

do you know anything about boxing ? that's a ridiculous statement

@Echo-mz6tz

4 жыл бұрын

@@bigdaddy4069 let him stand on the end of leprosy Jones punches and see if he can still even talk after

if MIKE TYSON fought this same version of LEROY JONES and knocked him out, people would immediately call LEROY JONES a - "BUM" !!!!!....... LOL

Disgrace of a fight. Jones had no business being in there. Complete mismatch.

@tlig

3 жыл бұрын

A lot of Holmes challengers didn't belong in the ring with a champion - it's one of the reasons he reigned so long.

@Ffeoli1039

2 жыл бұрын

He beat Mike Weaver. He earned his shot. Larry is just too good

@MrCrystalcranium

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ffeoli1039 Well...a lot of fighters beat Mike Weaver, especially early in his career before he fully committed to the sport...but, in retrospect, describing it as a disgrace is probably too strong a word. Larry fought everyone and dodged no one. It was a time of very sparse competition in the heavyweight division. Ali, Frazier, Norton, Foreman, Quarry, Lyle...they were all gone. Cooney had been unmasked as a seriously flawed fighter by none other than Larry himself. Larry was reduced to fighting his own version of the "Bum of the Month Club" and LJ certainly was in that category. Happy he didn't get hurt and Larry, for all his tough guy talk, despite all of the pre fight hype and animosity, Holmes was genuinely a very nice guy who wasn't out to hurt anyone. You could see he without a doubt, pulled many punches and didn't want to seriously and permanently injure Leroy.

@aleksthegreat4130

3 ай бұрын

He was an official number 1 or 2 contender,he got his spot.

Commentary from back in the day was poor quality