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By Patrick Kehoe - Evander Holyfield isn’t the real deal any more.
The former king of the heavyweight ring, now 44, has won 3 and lost 3 in his last 6 fights. A long time resident of Atlanta, Georgia, Holyfield continues on with his professional heavyweight career trying to sell the image of himself as a contender for the title – the now mythic heavyweight championship – and a guy with a scared mission, on the rise, just a good night’s work from being “Commander Evander” once again.
The manta that made Holyfield a symbolic force during the 1990s was his determination to never submit the vagaries of incessant injury, ever larger foes nor even the passage of time. Just as the evangelist and faith healer Benny Hinn was credited with ‘healing’ Holyfield of cardio arrhythmia, not even losses to Lennox Lewis, James Toney, Chris Byrd and Larry Donald could dissuade Holyfield from his long standing obsession to “regain the heavyweight championship of the world.” [details]
The former king of the heavyweight ring, now 44, has won 3 and lost 3 in his last 6 fights. A long time resident of Atlanta, Georgia, Holyfield continues on with his professional heavyweight career trying to sell the image of himself as a contender for the title – the now mythic heavyweight championship – and a guy with a scared mission, on the rise, just a good night’s work from being “Commander Evander” once again.
The manta that made Holyfield a symbolic force during the 1990s was his determination to never submit the vagaries of incessant injury, ever larger foes nor even the passage of time. Just as the evangelist and faith healer Benny Hinn was credited with ‘healing’ Holyfield of cardio arrhythmia, not even losses to Lennox Lewis, James Toney, Chris Byrd and Larry Donald could dissuade Holyfield from his long standing obsession to “regain the heavyweight championship of the world.” [details]
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