Larry holmes wikipedia

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Boxer, businessman

Larry Holmes, "the Easton Assassin," was known as much for his retirements and comebacks as for his skill in the boxing ring.

He emerged from a small shack in Cuthbert, Georgia, to become, as Arthur Ashe wrote in A Hard Road to Glory, "the most underrated and underpublicized heavyweight champion in history." With one of the greatest left jabs in boxing history—the result of training while his right hand was in a cast—Holmes won forty-eight consecutive matches, one short of Rocky Marziano's record, including twenty successful championship defenses.

Quit School to Help Support Family

Born on November 3, , in Cuthbert, Georgia, Holmes was the fourth of twelve children of John and Flossie Holmes, sharecroppers who lived in a small shack with a corrugated metal roof and a red clay floor.

In the Holmes family moved to Easton, Pennsylvania, where the opportunities were greater, as were the struggles to keep the family together. "I'll never f