Editing Larry Holmes (section)

==Amateur career==
Holmes began boxing at age 18. In his twenty-first bout, he faced [[Nick Wells]] in the semifinals of the 1972 National [[Summer Olympic Games|Olympic]] Trials in [[Fort Worth, Texas]]. Wells, a southpaw known for an unprecedentedly high knockout-to-win ratio for an amateur, heavily ending bouts in the first round, added another with Holmes. Nevertheless, Holmes was chosen by a selection committee of the [[United States Olympic Committee|National Olympic authorities]] to fight at the Olympic box-offs at [[West Point, New York]], where he had a match-up versus [[Duane Bobick]]. Holmes was dropped in the first round with a right to the head. He got up and danced out of range, landing several stiff jabs in the process. Bobick mauled Holmes in the second round but could not corner him. The referee warned Holmes twice in the second round for holding. In the third, Bobick landed several good rights and started to corner Holmes, who continued to hold. Eventually, Holmes was disqualified for excessive holding.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wxAdAABAAIBAJ&pg=4302,648460&dq=bobick+larry-holmes&hl=en|work=The Tuscaloosa News |agency=Associated Press|title=Bobick Captures Olympic Berth|access-date=February 26, 2015}}</ref>