One of the greatest heavyweights in the history of boxing, American Larry Holmes is very disappointed with how heavyweight looks these days.
Everyone got it, starting from the punchers: “Deontay Wilder and Anthony Joshua? So they are nothing! Yes, they don’t know anything at all. Just look at how they throw the jab! It flies from their waist. The jab is a straight punch. This is how they do it (shows). And what you have is not a jab, I don’t know what it is. And protection! This is how you need to hold your hands (shows), it helps to protect yourself from a blow. Do you understand what I mean? They don’t even know how to throw away even the simplest things – twos. I’m not talking about movements to protect myself … “
“Who, you say, moves well? Holmes started up. — Tyson Fury? He has to move like Larry Holmes (laughs). And he needs to strike, not take them on himself. What is he trying to prove? What does he have a holder? This is boxing. Here the whole point is to hit and not get in return. In general, all this is not the same. But in my day it was different. We did not hide from each other, but fought the best with the best. Just look at what is happening in boxing today! Nobody wants to fight, but everyone wants to earn! Why don’t you make all these men work off their fees?
They tried to take a comment from Holmes about the Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk (19-0, 13 KOs), but nothing really happened: “Oh, yes, all these cruisers rise in weight, and then they get sick like that. Usyk beat Joshua? Yes, I heard, but I did not watch the fight. I don’t think it says anything.”
On August 20, in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Usyk and Joshua will have a rematch. The British expert believes that the Ukrainian “got loose” on the eve of the second fight for a reason. And all the same Wilder bet on Usyk: “It will be an easy victory.”
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