I watched it all play out, the two title defenses are par for the course for many a new heavyweight champ as they try to cash in before taking another risk. Then, he fought the very close rematch with Evander which really could have conceivably gone either way. After that, he was looking awful nearly every fight while the idiot boxing media was still propping him up as "maybe the real best heavyweight in the world". Should have gotten disqualified against Mathis, couldn't keep Hide down. Beat holyfield in the rubber match and then fell off the cliff against Golota. So, as far as accomplishment, he didn't fulfill his promise, he came in fat and out of shape for most of his later fights but he was still an amazing big man for the first two holyfield fights. It's pretty rare to see that much skill and craft in that big of a guy along with his great stamina. I still say that with what we now know about how little shelflife he had that maybe he never could have done much more, we didn't see that at the time.
