Comments Thread For: Holyfield's Goal is To Bring The Belts Back To America

[FLYBOY]

E.H. is delusional. Old man needs to understand this is a young man's sport. He will end up with brain damage.

[jimmy1569]

look hes ma fav fighter his last good performance was lewis 2 which i and many others thought he won by 3rounds that was ages ago he has no chance of being undisputed champ.
am just amazed no1 has came close to totaly destroying him in recent years he can still beat b- fighters which is a credit to the guy at his age and am praying he puts in an ok performance against willians tonight cause he struggled for the first 4rounds with botha beats neilson and well take it from their.

Sounds reasonable..son but never say never. They denied him a license because they said he could no longer compete. He's proven that he can & is capable of Ko'ing some guys given the opportunity. He's still got the knowledge that these other fighters don't including The Klitschko's. Holy's punch is still formidable if & when he lands it. No one haS KICKED his ass since his shoulder & license was restored but yet the same peeps who predicted that he'd get his head bashed in are wanting him to retire insteAD of acknowledging that he has been competitive. He's only lost twice since then & they were both back to back against beltholders. Sultan ran ALL night & he clearly outboxed Valuev. He's in better physical shape & has more knowledge than 99% of the division.. Why don't we start getting behind the guy for a change. He deserves our support for all the incredible fights he's given us. ALL WE DO IS INSULT HIM BY TELLING HIM TO RETIRE when he clearly has a goal & wants to see it through. The people who want to see him done because they're worried about his health are being noble in there cause but in reality are all being selfish for all the right reasons.

You KNOW how many people around the world would be eating crow if he actually beat the brothers & David HAYE? YoU'LL all say I KNEW he would do it & become the best heavyweight of alltime but I KNOW better...you'll just be bandwagoning A 50 yr old Holy HOLDING ALL 4 BELTS..... wouldn't that be something. y'ALL are all scared of that scenario & are showing it by your negative responses. This isn't like hitting the lottery..the odds are much closer than that..esp when a man is possessed & has been capable of overcoming the odds with greatness....kapish.

[Schmerzen]

Sounds reasonable..son but never say never. They denied him a license because they said he could no longer compete. He's proven that he can & is capable of Ko'ing some guys given the opportunity. He's still got the knowledge that these other fighters don't including The Klitschko's. Holy's punch is still formidable if & when he lands it. No one haS KICKED his ass since his shoulder & license was restored but yet the same peeps who predicted that he'd get his head bashed in are wanting him to retire insteAD of acknowledging that he has been competitive. He's only lost twice since then & they were both back to back against beltholders. Sultan ran ALL night & he clearly outboxed Valuev. He's in better physical shape & has more knowledge than 99% of the division.. Why don't we start getting behind the guy for a change. He deserves our support for all the incredible fights he's given us. ALL WE DO IS INSULT HIM BY TELLING HIM TO RETIRE when he clearly has a goal & wants to see it through. The people who want to see him done because they're worried about his health are being noble in there cause but in reality are all being selfish for all the right reasons.

You KNOW how many people around the world would be eating crow if he actually beat the brothers & David HAYE? YoU'LL all say I KNEW he would do it & become the best heavyweight of alltime but I KNOW better...you'll just be bandwagoning A 50 yr old Holy HOLDING ALL 4 BELTS..... wouldn't that be something. y'ALL are all scared of that scenario & are showing it by your negative responses. This isn't like hitting the lottery..the odds are much closer than that..esp when a man is possessed & has been capable of overcoming the odds with greatness....kapish.

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what will u say after wladimir knocks him out?
why should any legit title holder @hw fight holyfield now?
its a lose-lose situation for the klitschkos & haye.
if they win, they get no credit.
if they lose, they r bums.
and holyfield can get hurt badly, he was already in too many wars, enough is enough.
he should just stay away from the klitschkos.

[jimmy1569]

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what will u say after wladimir knocks him out?
why should any legit title holder @hw fight holyfield now?
its a lose-lose situation for the klitschkos & haye.
if they win, they get no credit.
if they lose, they r bums.
and holyfield can get hurt badly, he was already in too many wars, enough is enough.
he should just stay away from the klitschkos.

Well....money to be had for one & it's not lose/lose.. They can say they finally ended Holyfield & have a living legend on the resume. If they lose..they lost to an alltime great...one that is ahead of them on the alltime list... & the Klitschko's will fight him for sure if he's got the WBA belt. that he takes from Haye who fights him for the easy & supposedly Harrison-like payday.

[Steak]

no one is taking the belts from the Klitschkos until they retire or father time steps up.

there are no good American heavyweights on the horizon either.

other than heavyweight prospect Tony Thompson, who is a young 38

[FLYBOY]

no one is taking the belts from the Klitschkos until they retire or father time steps up.

there are no good American heavyweights on the horizon either.

other than heavyweight prospect Tony Thompson, who is a young 38

[Steak]

sorry, hes 39.

like one year matters.

[TaurusJ27]

By Keith Idec - Twenty years ago, Evander Holyfield was headed toward one of the biggest fights of his career.

Fresh off his tremendous third-round knockout of James “Buster” Douglas, he was one of boxing’s biggest stars. The former cruiserweight champion demolished the man who beat the man and was making more than $25 million per fight.

George Foreman, four years and 24 fights into his heavyweight revival, was his opponent in a masterfully marketed main event that essentially established pay-per-view boxing as we now know it. A much smaller, much younger Holyfield defeated Foreman by unanimous decision at the Atlantic City Convention Center in that April 1991 bout, which propelled the Atlanta native into one of boxing’s best trilogies with Riddick Bowe and a celebrated career in which he earned nearly $300 million.

Two decades later, Holyfield is Foreman, only older.

At 48, he is six years older than Foreman was when they fought for the undisputed heavyweight championship. He is still slightly younger — seven months, to be exact — than Foreman was during his final fight in November 1997, when he lost an infamous majority decision to Shannon Briggs at Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City.

Holyfield has many more detractors than Foreman did, though, as he continues to box while his 50th birthday looms. A cringing legion of fans and media members has wished for nearly a decade that Holyfield would halt his unrealistic pursuit of regaining his status as undisputed champion.

As usual, a defiant Holyfield couldn’t care less.

“People have been telling me what I can’t do all of my life,” Holyfield said. “I’ve made a career out of proving people wrong.”

That’s Holyfield’s stock answer, precisely what he has to say as he keeps clinging to the belief that he’ll get the opportunities he needs to become the division’s unified champion again, no matter how old he’ll get in the process. Still, deep down Holyfield has to be asking himself how it all came to tonight. [Click Here To Read More]

Reminds me of the issue with brett farve when no one was sure if he would play or retire after each season

[BostonGuy]

no one is taking the belts from the Klitschkos until they retire or father time steps up.

there are no good American heavyweights on the horizon either.

other than heavyweight prospect Tony Thompson, who is a young 38

When's Tony Thompson gonna fight someone with a pulse? ...

[Dr. Demento]

Just have replicas made, and Fed Ex it to D.C.