Comments Thread For: Evander Holyfield: Qawi Was By Far The Toughest Fight, By Far

[TheCell8]

Makes sense. It was his first championship fight and his first against a future hall of famer.

The Lennox fight happened after he was basically past his prime.

[b d w]

Boxers are such prideful people. Somehow their toughest fights are always fought that they won and never fights they lost.

I agree. It is not just Evander that says this. Also the toughest puncher a fighter ever faced is also a fighter that they beat even if another fighter they faced has knocked them out, LOL.

[HarvardBlue]

Qawi took Holyfield in deep, deep waters and looked like he was smiling ever time he got hit. That was a tough fight.

[saintpat]

I was at the first Holy-Qawi fight.

Best fight I've ever seen live. Incredible action and pace.

[PunchyPotorff]

The real deal Holyfield is one of the greatest boxers that ever lived,I always have felt that he used to be so underrated & wasnt given the credit or respect that he deserves when he was still young. People were even trying to make every excuse in the book to lie & convince themselves that tyson somehow bit his ear off for some rediculous reason other than the obvious truth. It was as obvious as can be that holyfeild would have destroyed tyson every time even if they fought 10x, but yet fanbois of that era were trying to convince themselves that tyson somehow just didnt take the fights seriously & got frustrated from headbutts but tyson knew & it made him angry that he could never in a million years beat holyfeild who was a far better pure boxer.

Tyson was and will always be a POS compared to Evander. Holyfield in his prime was a force.

[PunchyPotorff]

I was there at the old Omni in Atlanta for the Qawi I fight. Man that was a brutal one. Evander was in hospital for a few days with dehydration afterwards, yet he'd still beaten the guy, even being in that condition. And Qawi was never the same afterwards.

[Earl-Hickey]

That qawi fight gets forgotten. One of the last 15 round big fights. Furious pace for 45. I understand what evander is saying. Its not even so much about the punches coming back but the pace and fatigue.

Think i read somewhere he list 10-15lbs of weight over the 15 through fluid loss

[b Murphington]

Holyfields the fighter that really got me interested in the sport. Watching his classic fights on ESPN Classic when I was 14 or 15 years old. His fights were always on there.

A true warrior and would take on any fighter from any era. He was fearless.

[joseph5620]

Boxers are such prideful people. Somehow their toughest fights are always fought that they won and never fights they lost.

Did you even see the fight jackass? It was extremely intense and brutal.

[A-Wolf]

Generations of NSB posters understood the meaning and significance of what Evander is referring to. Not because they saw the fight. Because they saw the face DMQ made in Turk15's video.

It's only the singular most sinister expression ever made by a human being during the course of combat. Demonic doesn't even begin to cover it.