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HEAVYWEIGHT HISTORY HERE AT THE
CONVENTION HALL IN ATLANTIC
CITY,.
BEFORE THE OFFICIAL
ACKNOWLEDGE A N RE IN D MAN O
IN 1960, HE WAS AN OLYMPIC GOLD
MEDAL CHAMPION.
IN 1964 HE BECAME THE
HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE
WORLD.
IN 1974, HE AGAIN WON THE
HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE.
IN 1978, HE BECAME THE ONLY MAN
IN HEAVYWEIGHT HISTORY TO WIN
THREE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE FORMER
THREE-TIME
T WORLD, MUHAMMED ALI.
MUHAMMED ALI!
TRUMP PLAZA HOTEL AND CASINO
PRESENT HEAVYWEIGHT HISTORY.
THIS BOUT IS IN ASSOCIATIOND
DWEISER, BRS, BUE
NEW JERSEY ATHLEC BOARD.
RING ANNOUNCER: THE THREE JUDGES
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RING ANNOUNCER: COUNTING FOR THE
KNOCK DOWN SECONDS, CC S
DR. LE WILND DR.
STANLEY EDIT.
RTEZ.EFEREE FOR THIS BOUT IS
AND NOW, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!
12 ROUNDS FOR THE UNDISPUTED
HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE
WORLD, INTRODUCING FIRST
WEARING THE WHITE TRUNKS WITHER,
RED TRIM
DEFEATS, 34 FOR KO'SFOSEVEN AND
A HALF YEAS THE UN
UNDEFEATED CHAMPION WITH 20
TONIGHT HE'S THE CHALLENGER,
KNN THE EN,THE MAN
LARRY HOLMES!
HIS PROFESSIONAL RECORD, 28
KO'S, 16 KNOCK JOTS IN THE FIRST
ROUND, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I
PRESENT TO YOU THE UNDEFEATED,
UNIOSPUTED
OF THE WORLD, IRON MIKE TYSON!
REFEREE: ALL RIGHT, GENTLEMEN, I
GAVE YOU BOTH THE RULES IN THE
DRESSING ROOM.
REMEMBER WHAT I TOLD YOU.
I'M HERE TO ENFORCE MY RULES.
OBEY MY COMMANDS AT ALL TIME.
SHAKE HANDS, GOOD LUCK TO BOTH
OF YOU
BARRY: TO ME THE REAL ISSUE HERE
IS HOW LARRY HMES IS GOGOING
TSAL WITH THIS FORCE OF NATURE
HURT.
LL EFFETEUST FOLD
OR WILL HE O?
I THINK THAT IS WHAT MADAT IS WE
EVENT THAT IT IS.
BARRY: ANYBODY WITH TACTICAL WISDOM WILL
GO AFTER THE BODY AND TAKE AWAY LARRY HOLMES' LEGS.
RAY: LARRY HOLMES IS TRYING TO USE THAT REACH÷
,RRPY
LARRY: TYSON WORKS THE BODY EARLIER.
LARRY IS NOT DANCING, MOVING.
LARRY IS EXTENDING A STIFF LEFT HAND.
BARRY: SOMETIMES HOLMES SAYS HE WILL USE THE JAB,
OTHER TIMES HE SAYS, "I DON'T NEED IT.
RAY: TYSON IS NOT ABLE TO MEASURE LARRY HOLMES.
TO FRUSTRA MIK
IS HOLDING MIKE TYSON OFF.
RAY: TYSON HAS TO WORK HIS WAY INSIDE AND WORK THE BODY.
HOLMES WILL HAVE TO BACK UP MIKE TYSON.
NOBODY HAS BEEN ABLE TO BACK UP MIKE TYSON YET.
RAY: TYSON NEEDS TO PICK THE PACE UP.
BARRY: THE REFEREE IN THIS GAME WAS THE JUDGE
WHO GAVE LARRY HOLMES THE FIGHT AGAINST MICHAEL SPINKS.
HE CANNOT SCORE IN THIS FIGHT, HOWEVER.
LARRY: IN THAT ROUND, ANY WAY,
THE LANDMARK AVOIDED THE
RECORDS.
TYSON'S CORNER: LISTEN TO ME.
I WANT YOU TO GET BEHIND HIM.
HOLMES' CORNER: STOP NOW.
HOLMES' CORNER: COME,
BACK.
N'S CORNER: USE YOUR JAB.
UNDERSTAND?
BARRY: LARRY HOLMES THREW 10
PUNCHES IN THE FIRST ROUND.
RAY: LARRY HOLMES IS NOT WASTING A LOT OF ENERGY.
LARRY HOLMES IS TRYING TO PRESERVE THAT STRENGTH.
RAY: ONCE AGAINTH KEVIONEY WANTED MIKE TO GO TO THE BODY.
IN ROONEY TOLD TON THREE-PUNCH COMBINATIO
AREFUL WHEN HE TRIES
USLARRY'
RAY: HOLMES IS TRYING TO SET UP MIKE WITH
THE RIGHT HAND, TRYING TO TIME MIKE COMING IN.
RAY: I'M WATCHING FOR A RIGHT UPPERCUT FROM LARRY Hñ
FORCE A RAY: LARRY IS THROWIJA$÷
BARRY: JOE CORTEZ TALKING TO LARRY HOLMES ABOUT HOLDING.
ATTHE. THIS IS
W WNSEE TYSON ***$PIOLENCE.
RAY: IN THE CORNEVIN ROOYRA
RAY: NO QUESTIONPES OF BONECRUSR SMITH.
RAY: TYSON HAS TO MAINTAIN HIS COMPOSURE.
LOT OF GRABBING,T
RAY: ACTUALLY, LARRY HOLMES IS TRYING TO UPSET
MIKE AND GET MIKE OUT OF THIS FIGHT PLAN.
RAY: I THINK MIKE TYSON PICKED UP THE PACE.
BAY:OL
BLOW, AND I S
BARRY: HOLMES DID MORE
PLAYINGAME CALCLOCK, TRYING TO 0
SECONDS EACH ROUND.
HO
ARE YOU OK?
TRAINER: ALL RIGHT.
, ALL RIGHT, OK.
LET'S GO NOW.
COME ON, NOW.
YOU GOT TO DO IT.
BARRY: IT AIN'T OVER UNTIL ITS
OVER.
THIS ROUND HAD ITS BEST ACTION
RIGHT AT THE VER
TYSON'S COARD
RAY: LOOK AT THE JAB.
LARRY: IT WAS CUS D'AMATO WHO SAID SOMETIMES A
GREAT OLD FIGHTER WHO APPEARS TO BE SHOT CAN
PUHER ONE BIG EFFORT.
BARRY: THE CROWD IS REALLY INTO THIS.
ITAT
D JHIS RIGHT UPPERCUT.
E:OME ON.
,
LET'S GO.
BARRY: DOWN HE GOES AGAIN FROM ANOTHER RIGHT.
RAY: WHAT HE NEEDS TO DO IS TIE HIS MAN UP.
.
BARRON IOKING FOR THE ONE SHOT.
BARRY: IT'S OVER
THAT'S ALL.
LARRY: MIKE TYSON LOOKED LIKE A
BULL IN AN ANTIQUE SHOT.
WHAT HE DID WAS HE TOOK DOWN THE
OLD GRDFATHER CLOCK.
BUT WE DID SEE SOMETHING OF THE
OLD LARRY HOLMES, WHICH IS HIS
GREAT FIGHTING HARD, SOMETHING
ALWAYS UNDERESTIMATED.
BARRY: HE GOT WITHIN EIGHT
SECONDS OF THE ROUND.
HIS LEGS BUCKLED UNDER HIM.
RAY:IKE THE RIGHT
THING AS HE'S DONE PAST.
HE TAKES ADVANTAGE OF THE
OPPORTUNITY.
BUT YOU HAVE TO GIVE LARRY
HOLMES CREDIT.
YOU KNOW, WHEN LARRY FIRST SAID
THAT, YOU KNOW, HE'S FIGHTING
FOR THIS REASON, THAT REASON, I
HAVE PROBLEMS FOR THAT.
NDICATED T.CATED TO ME IN
BARRY: HE FOUGHT WHAT YOU HAVE
TO CONSIDER A SMART FIGHT.
HE SEEMED TO DO EVERYTHING RIGHT
FOR THE TIME HE WAS DOWN.
LET'S LOOK AT THE FIRST KNOCK
DOWN.
BIG RIGHT HAND OVER THE TOP OF
THE EYE.
RAY: IT WAS A SHORT RIGHT HAND
THAT MIKE TYSON DELIVERED.
BARRY: THIS IS STILL THE FIRST
KNOCK DOWN.
SET UP WITH A LEFT. RIGHTWAS BE.
RAY: HE THREW HIS JAB,TEED TT
OVERHAND RIGHT.
WATCH HOW MIKE STEPPED IN.
LIKETIFUL RIGHT HAND
OFUALLY AS PRETTY FROM EDOWN
THIS WAS KNOCK TWO.
THERE.
THAS
RAY: AT THIS POINT WAS
ARING LA D
LARRY HOLMES TRYING TO TIE UP
MIKE TYSON.
BUT MIKE TYSON COMES UP WITH A
RIGHT OF THE
AD ALWAY, FIGHTGMES DOING
RAY: MIKE TYSON NOT GIVING UP.
HE STANDS RIGHT IN THE CHEST OF
LARRY HOLMES.
LARRY IS TRYING HIS BEST.
W A MATTER OFSE HIS LEGS ARE HS
A LOT TTH BODY.S ENLARRY WAS
BARRY: T THE FINAL KNOCK,
DOWN.
THE THIRD ONE.
RAY: LARRY WAS TRYING TO USE HIS
ARMS, COVER UP.
HERE AT PNT THE REFEE
JUMPED IN.
I GUESS FOR THE RESPECT OF LARRY
ES BEINGUMMELE BEING PUMMELED
THIS POINT.
THAT RIGHT HAND DID A LOT OF
DAMAGE.
LARRY, LEGS BUCKLED.
BARRY: ONE MORE LOOK AT THE
THIRD AND FINALNO WN.
IT WAS DEFINITELY CUMULATIVE.
Y MIKET
TYSON FROM THE FIR KNOCK DOWN
LET'GOTH ANNOUNCER.
E.HE IS THE
THE END COMES AT TWO MINUTES, 55
BARRY: I HAVE TOAY THAT MIKEET
RAY: FOR A WHILE HE WAS STARTING
TO GET FRUSTRATED AND A LITTLE
OVERANXIOUS.
BUT WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS OF
STARTED GOINGTO THE BODY
ROUND,T WAS THIRD ROUND,
A LITTLEOF TIME.
@@PEN HAZARDLY LIKE HEN HAZARDLS
DOASERD.
MIKEONITHOUT QUESTION
SHOULD BE CHAMPION FOR A LONG
TIME.
BARRY: LET'S LOOK AT THE TOTAL
PUNCHES IN THE FIGHT.
TYSON THREW 132, HOLMES 70.
LET'S GO TO LARRY MERCHANT, WITH
THE CHAMPION, MIKE TYSON.
LARRY: MIKE TYSON, DOES THIS
MEAN SOMETHING SPECIAL TO YOU
NIGHT?
LARRY HOLMES WAS ONCE AN
OUTSTANDING FIGHTER.
TYSON: IT'SAT THE
NAME ON MYCORD.
EVERYONE KNOWS LARRY HOLMES WAS
A LEGENDARY FIGHTER.
WT DRRY:MUR F
FIGHT THG TAN'T WORRY ABOUT
TRYING TTHAT SURPRISED
TYSON:WA
BUT I'TO
AT THIS STAGE OF M lLIFE
TYSON: AS I SATIME.HT YOU, WO
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TYSON: KNEY @ H
STARTED OPENING.
LARR
TYSON: I DIDN'T THINK HE WOULDOT
GHTER,ú
HURT, HE WAS$, OTHER÷"GTE DIDN'T
AREAS, IT WOULD PUT HIM
LARRY: WHAT KIND OF FEELING DO
YOU HAVE NOW THAYOU'RE OVER
THIS HURDLE?
TYSON: IT IS ANOTHER OBSTACLE TO
TO BTHE CHAMPION AS LONG AS
THE FIGHWAS THE EASY PART.
TO BEAT MIKE TYSON YOU HAVE TO
NOBODY HAS BEEN ABLE TO DO
PL
NOBODO THATEN ABLE TO
TO MIKE TYSON.
THAT HE WAS O
FORCE MIKE TYSON TO TAKE A
BACKWARDS STEP.
THAT WAS THE CAS CASE OF LARRY
HOLMES TONIGHT.
HE CAME IN WITH A GOOD FIGHT
S.AN, TOLD MANY PEOPLE HE
HE TOLT B.HE
HETT THAT
UNFORTUNATELHIM, NOTHING
WORKED.
THE RESULTS IN THAT CASE WERE
INEVITLE
MIKE TYSON KNOCKS T LA
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EVENTUALLY WILL GEND
.
RAY: WHEN I DECIDED TO MAKE THAT
COME BACK, IT WAS JUST FOR
MARVIN HAGLER.
OFOURS
I E E Y THEY
.
AT 38 YEARS OLD, THE LONG Y
LAYOFF, IT HURTS.
I'M GOING TO HOLD MY HEAD HIGH,
AND WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A PARTY
TONIGHT.
WHO CARES WHAT PEOPLE SAYS ABOUT
ME.