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Originally Posted by D. Bergin
I think he could have. Looked like he probably carried him for the last half of the fight.
Looked like a poor mans version of the Larry Holmes / Muhammad Ali fight, where at a certain point Larry was practically begging the ref to stop the fight because he didn't want to hurt Ali, and he knew Ali wasn't going to willingly quit or go down easy, though in this case it was more Paul just taking his foot off the gas when he realized Tyson was just physically exhausted.
Holmes had a similar reaction when he fought Tex Cobb, but for different reasons.
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Which prompted some of the best post fight quotes of all time by Cobb.
"I can do my sport no greater service." On being informed that commentator Howard Cosell had hung up his mike after being so appalled at the one-sidedness of the Holmes-Cobb fight
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Howard Cosell retired from boxing broadcasts after Tex Cobb's fight with Larry Holmes, citing the disgrace to boxing that the referee wouldn't stop it, after which Cobb later remarked that he'd "... go 15 rounds with Holmes again if it would get Cosell off the football broadcasts."