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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 ...
As a result, the WBA not only threatened to withdraw its sanctioning of both the Holyfield–Parkey cruiserweight title fight and the Mike Tyson–Pinklon Thomas heavyweight title fight, but to strip any of its champions should they chose to fight in Nevada. [4] On the day of the fight, the WBA announced it would not sanction the fight, but ...
Evander Holyfield: WBA 15 25 October 1986 15 May 1987 Rickey Parkey: IBF 16 15 May 1987 9 April 1988 Evander Holyfield WBA & IBF 17 9 April 1988 4 December 1988 2: Evander Holyfield Universal Holyfield unified his titles with Carlos De Leon's WBC title, making him the division's first truly undisputed champion. 18 25 March 1989 25 September 1989 2
Evander Holyfield had defeated Dwight Muhammad Qawi via split decision in July 1986 to capture the WBA cruiserweight title, the first world title of his career. The first defense of Holyfield's title was announced to be against his 1984 Olympic teammate and gold medalist Henry Tillman, who like Holyfield, had turned pro in late 1984 and become a top prospect in the cruiserweight division ...
The fight lasted into the 11th round, the longest of Holyfield's cruiserweight title defenses. Like he had in his previous fight with Qawi, Ocasio used a defensive approach while Holyfield served as the aggressor throughout and had won 8 of the 10 rounds on one judge's scorecard (100–92) and taken 9 on the other two scorecards (99–94).
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There were no knockdowns, but the fight was close and competitive with Holyfield outworking and outlanding Qawi. Two judges, Harold Lederman and Neffie Quintana scored the bout for Holyfield 144–140 & 147–138, while the third judge Gordon Volkman scored it for Qawi 143–141 giving Holyfield a split decision victory and his first world title [3] The bout would be named as the best ...
In February 1988, a unification match between reigning WBA and IBF cruiserweight champion Evander Holyfield and the reigning WBC cruiserweight champion Carlos De León was agreed upon. [2] However, while the WBC agreed to sanction the bout, both the WBA and IBF were hesitant as the WBC had a weight limit of 195 pounds for the cruiserweight ...