He beat Holyfield, Nunn, Barkley and Virgil Hiil (three times) in the amateurs and you probably never heard of him...

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

"I was 18 when I fought a guy named Michael Grogan," Holyfield said. "He beat my eyes out. I couldn't even hit him. He was just that much better. He was tearing me apart and I became so emotional trying to get back at him that I started crying. Crying to the point where I couldn't see him.

"It taught me a lesson. Even though I became mad, it didn't help. I got the daylights whipped out of me. And the thing is, me and the guy had sparred before and I realized that I had done well in sparring because I didn't get all emotional. But in that fight with Grogan, I had put all the pressure on myself."

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Why didn't he become a successful pro? You have to be damn good to beat those fighters and for Holyfield to make a statement like that.

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

Why didn't he become a successful pro? You have to be damn good to beat those fighters and for Holyfield to make a statement like that.

He was older at the time, not a young amateur, and I always figured it was just too late for him