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On August 15, 1987, Evander Holyfield would make the third successful defense of his WBA cruiserweight title and first of the IBF version by defeating Ossie Ocasio via 11th-round knockout, while on the undercard Dwight Muhammad Qawi would knockout former cruiserweight champion Lee Roy Murphy to earn the IBF's number one ranking, setting up a rematch from the previous year between the two.
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 ...
Evander Holyfield vs. Seamus McDonagh; Evander Holyfield vs. Ray Mercer; Evander Holyfield vs. Michael Moorer; Evander Holyfield vs. Michael Moorer II; Dwight Muhammad Qawi vs. Evander Holyfield; Evander Holyfield vs. Dwight Muhammad Qawi II
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 ...
Evander Holyfield vs. George Foreman; Evander Holyfield vs. Seamus McDonagh; Evander Holyfield vs. Ray Mercer; Evander Holyfield vs. Dwight Muhammad Qawi II; Evander Holyfield vs. Hasim Rahman; Evander Holyfield vs. Alex Stewart II; Evander Holyfield vs. Pinklon Thomas; Bernard Hopkins vs. Chad Dawson II; Bernard Hopkins vs. Sergey Kovalev
Marvin Hagler vs. Sugar Ray Leonard; Thomas Hearns vs. Juan Roldán; Heavyweight unification series; Evander Holyfield vs. Dwight Muhammad Qawi II; Evander Holyfield vs. Ossie Ocasio; Evander Holyfield vs. Rickey Parkey; Evander Holyfield vs. Henry Tillman
Evander Holyfield's son Evan just suffered the first loss of his young boxing career, and it wasn't pretty. The younger Holyfield entered Saturday's Trillerverz 5 event with a 9-0 record.
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