"Man, I hit him a thousand times, early. I hit that bleeper, thinking I'm going to get you out of here. He said, 'I'm not going anywhere' He maybe hit me four or five times the entire fight," Holmes said in a recent interview with SportsWeek from his office overlooking the Delaware and Lehigh rivers in Easton. "After the seventh round, after the beating I put on him for the first five or six rounds, I didn't want to knock him out anymore. I didn't want that to be me. I didn't admire that beating he took."