Talented fighter, I remember watching the prefight stuff and thinking of how skilled and fast he looked. He also had bacne in that fight, a sure sign of ped usage. Guy was just a basketcase, threw away a win in this fight and a great opportunity. He was a precursor to the Euro's dominating the sport, just without the success.
Threw away both Bowe fights. Bizarre. He was a tremendously skilled fighter but something was definitely missing.
just unstable, for whatever reason, i just watched the Lennox Lewis fight, looked freaked out that he was hurt and that was it. Didn't take much to make him goofy. It seemed, when he fought Bowe, that he would start to throw low anytime Bowe mounted a rally, which wouldn't have been enough for bowe to take the fight but he couldn't even handle that much pressure. I could bring up the Tyson fight but he can sorta be forgiven for quitting as his face was busted.
Agreed. Also if you remember during the Samson Po'uha fight he bit him in the neck (away from the view of the ref) when he got rocked. But on the other hand, he fouled Dannell Nicholson and he wasn't in any trouble at all at the time, and then during one of the Bowe fights he threw that headbutt in mid-combo and at the time he was doing fine. I remember the look on his face when Lewis knocked him down and it wasn't good!
ya, i remember hearing about the bite. Shame because he looked devestating in the first Bowe fight, he was on his game for most of that one. I just rewatched the Tyson fight, Mike looked damned good in that one and was landing some bombs, hard to believe he'd be totally shot just a couple years later, unable to beat journeymen.
Yep, hard to believe he got battered by Kevin McBride not that long after.
he was, i recall watching each and every post holyfield fight and couldn't understand how the boxing mags would hype him as the best heavyweight in the world. None of his performances were impressive to me, but the boxing mags raved about Gonzalez. the Buster Mathis fight, the Herbie Hide fights just show a guy who hasn't taken his craft seriously. Eddie Futch quit in disgust after the first golota fight and later said, "you sound like a guy who had a hundred fights" after the second.
You're so full of shit it's disgusting. Just days ago you wrote the exact opposite about Holyfield's health going into the Bowe trilogy fight.
So, which is it? Holyfield was either "fully healthy" or he had "known medical problems" and his blood sugar was "all over the place"? Pick one.
