Holmes enjoys reliving the glory ** The former heavyweight champ, and Easton native, thinks his segment of TV’s ‘Beyond the Glory’ is a knockout.
By Andre D. Williams ·
Larry Holmes has finally put his guard down. One reason is because he now knows how well thought of he is by longtime boxing commentators Jim Lampley and Larry Merchant. And he now knows how one of the men he once bloodied en route to a 13th-round technical knockout in a…
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