In Against the Odds, the reader will experience the uplifting odyssey that took Larry Holmes from a boxing nobody to a world champion. Holmes is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight champions of our time and held the title for more than seven years. But his ride to the top was hardly an easy one. His road to becoming the champion - from which he would net $40 million - was one requiring doggedness and extreme courage. In his time, the greatest heavyweight champions were men whose path was made for them. We are ...
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In Against the Odds, the reader will experience the uplifting odyssey that took Larry Holmes from a boxing nobody to a world champion. Holmes is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight champions of our time and held the title for more than seven years. But his ride to the top was hardly an easy one. His road to becoming the champion - from which he would net $40 million - was one requiring doggedness and extreme courage. In his time, the greatest heavyweight champions were men whose path was made for them. We are speaking of George Foreman, Muhammad Ali, and Smokin' Joe Frazier, fighters who won fame as Olympic gold medalists, attracted financial backers, and were accorded special treatment as young professionals. Larry Holmes, by contrast, was the equivalent of the outsider whose nose is pressed against the candy-store window. Yet despite being a seventh-grade dropout and routinely being treated by the boxing establishment as a body for other men to beat on, Holmes overcame a hard and impoverished childhood and the indifference of boxing's starmakers to become heavyweight champion, a title he held from 1978 to 1985.
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