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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 17
Top works
- Faith Is for the Living
- Don't Tell Me I Can't
- SARS-CoV2 Pandemic Control and Prevention
- Myths, Mysteries and Morality
- Come Se Fosse Antani
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Film & TV
Acting · Cuthbert, Georgia, USA
Larry Holmes is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1973 to 2002. He grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania, which led to his boxing nickname of the Easton Assassin. Holmes, whose left jab is rated among the best in boxing history, held the WBC heavyweight title from 1978 to 1983, The Ring magazine and lineal heavyweight titles from 1980 to 1985, and the inaugural IBF heavyweight…
Known for
- In the Company of Kings — Self2024
- Earnie Shavers2021
- Tommy — Self2017
- Chasing Tyson — Self2015
- River of Fundament — Wake Guest2014
- Dirty Movie — The Judge2011
- National Lampoon's Snatched — Self2011
- Muhammad and Larry — Himself2009
- Facing Ali — Self2009
- 30 for 30 — Self2009
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1969-02-14
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 17
- Total plays
- 56
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
· 2016 · cited 32,930x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,908x
- phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data
· 2013 · cited 20,049x
- Intermolecular interactions from a natural bond orbital, donor-acceptor viewpoint
· 1988 · cited 16,708x
- New Guidelines to Evaluate the Response to Treatment in Solid Tumors
· 2000 · cited 13,419x
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Quotes
- “I didn't fight this fight for the blacks, the whites or the Spanish, I fought the fight for the people. We're all God's children. I don't see color. I'm not a racist When I look at Gerry Cooney, I just see a man trying to take my head off.”
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Key facts
- Nickname
- The Easton Assassin
- Born
- ( 1949-11-03 ) November 3, 1949 (age 76) , Cuthbert, Georgia , U.S.
- Height
- 6 ft 3 in (191 cm)
- Weight
- Heavyweight
- Reach
- 81 in (206 cm)
- Stance
- Orthodox
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Encyclopedic overview
Larry Holmes (born November 3, 1949) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1973 to 2002 and was world heavyweight champion from 1978 until 1985. He is often considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. He grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania, which led to his boxing nickname of "the Easton Assassin".
Holmes's left jab is often rated among the best in heavyweight boxing history. In addition to holding the WBC heavyweight title from 1978 to 1983, Holmes held the Ring magazine and lineal heavyweight titles from 1980 to 1985 and the inaugural IBF heavyweight title from 1983 to 1985.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Larry Holmes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.