Holyfield Believes Money Crippled The US Olympic Team

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

Former four-time heavyweight champion, and 1984 Olympic Bronze Medal winner, Evander Holyfield, sat ringside in Beijing, China to wathc some of the failures of this year's U.S. Olympic boxing team, and says the root cause of their shortcomings can be traced back to money. [details]

[Albo Da Kid]

Bravo Holyfield!! Hes right in my opinion

[dstew]

Well, if anyone should know a financial problem when they see it, it's Holyfield...

[Silencers]

Holyfield is making sense again.

[joseph5620]

Former four-time heavyweight champion, and 1984 Olympic Bronze Medal winner, Evander Holyfield, sat ringside in Beijing, China to wathc some of the failures of this year's U.S. Olympic boxing team, and says the root cause of their shortcomings can be traced back to money. [details]

Excellent article. Holyfield really shed some light on what is really going on with the amateur program.

[mojack]

U.S Olympic team? what U.S Olympic team?

[SkillspayBills]

Holyfield stole my damn line! I SAID THAT I said, "if you don't have a good amateur program it is like skipping hhighschool and hoinh straight to college when you aren't a genius"

[Zerwas1]

If a guy has a gold medal you have to pay him more....because he's more famous and will climb the ladder much faster, which means the promoter gets more money. So nonsense

[FUC_U_PAYME]

If a guy has a gold medal you have to pay him more....because he's more famous and will climb the ladder much faster, which means the promoter gets more money. So nonsense

that not true over here any more get a gold medal wont get you the big bucks from the networks anymore.

[Zerwas1]

that not true over here any more get a gold medal wont get you the big bucks from the networks anymore.

Every true boxing fan recognizes you from the olympics, so you got more people watching you right from the start=network got more watchers->more fans->more money?