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Mike Tyson (USA) vs Larry Holmes (USA)

ladies and gentlemen I present you The Undefeated Undisputed heavyweight champion of the world h m p tonight he’s the Challenger ladies and Gentlemen The Man known as the easn Assassin former heavyweight champion of the world Larry H the Undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and ion Mike Tyson taking on Larry Holmes here a former WPC heavyweight champion lost the title in his 20th defense coming up for round one here against Larry Holmes the heavyweight championship of the world Tyson quickly on top of Holmes and he

Nails him right away defensive fighter in this the first round looking at no respect for anything that Holmes does as he BS in leading with the left hand the fear of Mike Tyson in the first round box can that left jab keep him away so far Tyson is coming through him expect to see Larry fight him and wonder if it will frustrate the cutting Holmes off in the corner Larry lashes out with that left hand and then ties him up Larry Larry looking almost exactly the way to throw Tyson off balance by shifting left and right

is how long can Larry Holmes do it Tyson showing no respect so far boring in the way he always does knows exactly how to TI him up when he gets inside he’s not going to let Mike whale away with [Applause] him Tyson just showing no fear of homes nowry finally goes on offense at the closing Bill your jab make ITT WBC W Larry but Larry got up and stopped him a couple of rounds later this is round two scheduled for 12 the Undisputed heavyweight championship of the world at [Applause] State again about round to score three minutes for 6 7 8 nine 10

Rounds if it goes that far inside Mike counters by throwing four five puns the champion he lets the right hand St Mike Tyson attacks Larry Holmes traed blows Larry with a sneaky right hand almost CAU Mike coming in atts Larry has brilliant defense Mike really has come on get come on unless he’s in better shape than most people believe he can get his body in ulating punches before his knockout secur forget he’s 5 11 a half Larry’s 63 big question is how long can his leg stay strong there’s a lot of pressure on him

constantly Larry just missed him with but the old Larry Holmes would have been snapping the left hand off instead Larry’s just holding it out trying to through the right hand that time 20 seconds to go in the second round boring in look at the look on Larry’s face he looks almost in total fear Larry has got to start muss like this and Larry with that left hand down and he better not leave it down he better keep it up in the face of this guy lar him on the chin Mike shakes his head [Music] no one of the big questions if in fact

Larry can nail Tyson Tyson’s blows he’s going to keep the pressure on him constantly this is the third round when Larry was up in his toes and sticking the way he’s backing up he’s going to need it Holmes comes with an uppercut of his own heavier than when Larry throws a punch Larry doing a nice 20 seconds to go in this the third round Mike is showing no respect for Holmes’s punching power plus Larry is a guy in his career that won his let break oh break out oh first good right hand landed this is the part right at the end

of the round he caught Larry flush that time Larry able to shake it off and come back with a shot this is round four let’s see if Larry can pick up the offense a bit Larry up on his toes now this is the way a Larry knows exactly how to take away that punching P some offense here [Applause] and again Larry knows how to tie him upar look in his face now than he had in the first round left hook caught now loves to see this Larry definitely a Sentimental favorite you see that [Applause] head tyon bors in his Tyson attacking

again 38-year-old Larry Holmes cannot continue that round after round oh a big right hand and down goes the former Champion he was now running the button the count is up to six seven and eight Larry is hurt he definitely hurt his legs are gone and in comes Mike it was a big right hand Larry’s n again down he goes I don’t know if he’ll be able to continue it’s up to four and five his eyes are clear how do you feel it’s up to seven and eight knows he has them in trouble it’s just a matter of time Larry will not survive this round he’s trying

to fight back with everything left hand 17 he’s trying desperately but this is he should be hanging on there with the right hand the left hand that was able to do it against Ronaldo Snipes he goes with a big right hand the left one come inside there’s the left there’s the right Larry’s ready to go again he’s got to hang on and he’ll stop the fight there he goes there he’s hurt it’s all over he is not out it didn’t even bother the C it was a vicious vicious right hand it came like a b a big right hand ends the career of

the former champion of the world the end comes at 2 minutes 55 seconds of the fourth round the winner and still the Undisputed undefeated heavyweight champion of the world IR Mike Hey sir