VIDEO: Evander Holyfield – Championship Profile
Evander ‘Real Deal’ Holyfield is widely viewed as one of the greatest boxing champions of all time, and not without good reason.
Evander ‘Real Deal’ Holyfield is widely viewed as one of the greatest boxing champions of all time, and not without good reason.
There may never have been a night quite like it. 35 years ago today, inside a full Madison Square Garden in New York, six of the very special young boxers who helped make up the all-conquering 1984 Olympic squad in Los Angeles went pro.
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Evan Holyfield, son of legendary four-time heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield, has enormous shoes to fill as he sets out on his own boxing career.
Imagine if he’d fought him when he was in his prime.
This was the feeling a good number of fight fans had at the conclusion of the heavyweight world title fight that took place in Las Vegas today in 1992.
For whatever reason, precious few southpaws have managed, over the long history of boxing, to claim the world heavyweight title; yet on this day a quarter of a century ago, Michael Lee Moorer made a piece of boxing history by becoming the first-ever lefty to claim the ultimate crown.
It was twenty years ago today when it happened; when THE draw to end all draws, and start all debates, was thrust upon us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvh9rYN4MHo
Thomas Hearns versus Evander Holyfield: who wins? Or who would have won? This particular Dream Fight actually came pretty close to happening, believe it or not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNx3Zy81x94
When heavyweight greats Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier fought, the world stopped. When Joe Louis and Max Schmeling fought, the world REALLY stopped (for fight-two anyway), and when Mike Tyson actually lost (for the first time), the entire world was in shock.
Who was big enough? Who was good enough? Who had the most left? There were plenty of questions going into the clash between future Hall of Famers that took place at The Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on October 4, and fans were about as split down the middle as could be in picking who would win: James Toney or Evander Holyfield.