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Evander Holyfield (born October 19, 1962) is an American former professional boxer who competed between 1984 and 2011. He reigned as the undisputed champion [a] in the cruiserweight division in the late 1980s and at heavyweight in the early 1990s, and was the only boxer in history to win the undisputed championship in two weight classes in the "three-belt era", a feat later surpassed by ...
Holyfield instead fought Bert Cooper on November 23, 1991, in his hometown of Atlanta and knocked him out in the seventh round. Holyfield made one more defense of his title, against another former champion out of retirement Larry Holmes, in June 1992, before losing to Riddick Bowe in November 1992. Holyfield regained the WBA and IBF titles from ...
Holyfield was then forced to retire due to a misdiagnosed heart condition, only to come back a year later. He fought Bowe one more time in the fall, getting knocked out for the first time in his career, and then fought overmatched former cruiserweight world champion Bobby Czyz and knocked him out. [citation needed]
Evander Holyfield fell to Vitor Belfort via a first round TKO on Saturday in Florida. ... Belfort has only boxed professionally once in his career, having knocked out Josemario Neves in 2006. The ...
Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II, billed as The Sound and the Fury and afterwards infamously referred to as The Bite Fight, was a professional boxing match contested between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson on June 28, 1997, for the WBA Heavyweight Championship. [1]
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Holyfield continued his comeback and knocked out former two-division champion Bobby Czyz in his next fight in May 1996. Later that year, he was contracted to face Mike Tyson , whom Holyfield had originally signed to fight in 1991 before injury and Tyson's rape conviction scuttled the planned bout, for the first defense of the WBA championship ...
Holyfield, the former heavyweight champion who beat Tyson twice, was knocked out in the first round. Zavala said George Foreman talked about having slower reflexes when he came out of retirement ...