{"id":4505,"date":"2024-04-22T01:03:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T01:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2024-04-22T01:03:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T01:03:29","slug":"larry-holmes-on-sharing-the-ring-with-ali-i-still-love-you-man-vu-thuy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbiz.thongtinluat.com\/larry-holmes-on-sharing-the-ring-with-ali-i-still-love-you-man-vu-thuy\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u0430rry Holme\u0455 on \u0455h\u0430r\u0456ng the r\u0456ng w\u0456th Al\u0456: \u2018I \u0455t\u0456ll love you, m\u0430n\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

On October 3, 1980, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nev., Larry Holmes, then 31 and the WBC Heavyweight Champion, badly defeated a tired, failing Muhammad Ali. The two had been sparring partners in the early 1970s, but unbeknownst to Holmes, the Greatest was in the early stages of Parkinson\u2019s Disease. This is Holmes\u2019 remembrance of that fight:<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cListen, Ali was good, man.<\/p>\n

Ali dealt with everybody, the women, the men, everybody. He didn\u2019t f \u2013 \u2013 k around. He didn\u2019t jive, man. He was a good guy.<\/p>\n

[The fight] was difficult, because he was my buddy. I knew I could whup him, because I was doing it in the [training] camp.<\/p>\n

You know how in boxing, it can start getting to the guy, so I didn\u2019t want to get to him and hurt him and whatever.<\/p>\n

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I said, \u2018Why are you taking all these goddamn punches? What the f \u2013 \u2013 k\u2019s wrong with you?\u2019<\/p>\n

And he cussed me out.\"SI<\/p>\n

I said, \u2018Don\u2019t take all these goddamn punches,\u2019 and he told me to \u2018Shut the f \u2013 \u2013 k up.\u2019<\/p>\n

I never heard Ali swear until he got in the ring with me. All them years that I worked with him in the gym as a sparring partner, he never cursed.<\/p>\n

It shocked me.<\/p>\n

After the fight, you know, I went to him. I said to him, \u2018Man, I still love you, man.\u2019<\/p>\n

He said, \u2018If you love me, why\u2019d you whup me like that?\u201d<\/p>\n

Listen, I\u2019m going to tell you what I\u2019m going to miss. I\u2019m going to miss knowing him. That\u2019s what I\u2019m going to miss. Just knowing him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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