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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: Kool Beenz on November 10, 2008, 08:33:05 PM
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Evander Holyfield Plans To Shock Nikolai Valuev, Win Title
By Mark Vester
The only bright spot involved with Evander Holyfield challenging the 7-foot Russian giant, Nikolai Valuev, for the WBA heavyweight title, is Holyfield announcing that he "may" retire in 2009. According to Holyfield, contracts will be signed by the end of the week, with the fight taking place on December 20 in Zurich, Switzerland. Holyfield, 46, will only make $600,000 for the fight, a far cry from the multi-million dollar paydays that he made for bouts with Mike Tyson, Riddick Bowe, Lennox Lewis and several others.
Holyfield says that if he wins the title, and "God" tells him to continue, he may fight beyond 2009. With all of his widely reported financial problems, he says money is not the reason he continues to fight. He doesn't have a trainer, but managed to reunite with his first manager, Ken Sanders.
“I’m not in control of my life. If the Lord says, ‘I made you heavyweight champion again and I want you to keep fighting,’ I’ll stay as long as He wants me to stay. I knew I would get one more shot, I just had to be patient,” said Holyfield to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "But I realized my time is running out and I’ve got to get this thing pretty soon. My whole thing, how old do you want to be when you pursue this?”
“People are always asking me, ‘Why are you keeping this going? Are you doing this for the money?’ It’s kind of odd. I had this as a goal even before I had any money problems and situations. You get tired of explaining to somebody that you’re not doing this for the money. It may look like it now, but it’s not the case.”
Holyfield says the fight will probably be kept off pay-per-view because Sauerland Event doesn't want the public to watch him upset Valuev for the title.
“I don’t think it will be. It’s sort of like this is going to happen in secret. That’s too bad because it’s going to be a great story. It’s going to be a shocker,” Holyfield said.
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i cant believe this shit.
no way ill he win this
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Holyfield needs to sit his ass down somewhere. I thought the 7 footer was the next champ until he got his ass whooped by the shorter cat. I thought eventually they would made the match of Valuev vs one of the Klitschkos but I see he not high on everyones list. I even thought Chagaev woulda got a shot for beating Valuev
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Holyfield needs to sit his ass down somewhere. I thought the 7 footer was the next champ until he got his ass whooped by the shorter cat. I thought eventually they would made the match of Valuev vs one of the Klitschkos but I see he not high on everyones list. I even thought Chagaev woulda got a shot for beating Valuev
Vitali has called out Valuev but he is just a pussy who took the easy fight with Evander
and we all know Evander is still fighting for the money
anybody down for a Holyfield vs Tyson III :D
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Not at all, there's no way Holyfield Tyson would be any good now. That dude Holyfield fucked up bad he has something like 10 kids by 8 women. I read he was shelling out 6 figures a month in child support mind you he grossed in the 100s of millions when he was still marketable
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hes gonna die :-\
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hes gonna die :-\
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lol that would be a pathetic fight: a 46-year old against one of the worst heavyweight champion in history
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lol that would be a pathetic fight: a 46-year old against one of the worst heavyweight champion in history
That's the heavyweight division for ya.
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Damn...I didn't know Holyfield could still walk, let alone fight.
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you know evander must be broke as fuck to be still tryin to fight. its crazy how these entertainers/athletes just fuck off millions of dollars
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i would like to see James Toney and Evander fight again
even though they are both washed up atleast Toney always has entertaining fights
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you know evander must be broke as fuck to be still tryin to fight. its crazy how these entertainers/athletes just fuck off millions of dollars
the house he had that was rumored to be in foreclosure was something like the white house. it was in a jet magazine years ago, it had an outrageous number of bedrooms and bathrooms and was somewhere in Georgia
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you know evander must be broke as fuck to be still tryin to fight. its crazy how these entertainers/athletes just fuck off millions of dollars
the house he had that was rumored to be in foreclosure was something like the white house. it was in a jet magazine years ago, it had an outrageous number of bedrooms and bathrooms and was somewhere in Georgia
yeah with a bowling ball alley too
i think he owed alot of money and got sued for child support and got a lawsuit for using steroids so thats why he is fucked in a hole
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Damn, Holyfield was always one of my favorite fighters.....actually my favorite fighter for years when he first hit the Heavyweight division. Its sad to see this dood keep fighting....he needs to hang that shit up before the "Lord" REALLY tells him its time to quit..
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Really tho, nobody stepped to Tyson like he did. He took his best shots and kept boxing him.
I think it was the child support that killed him, that shit amounted to millions a year, for what? so the childrens mothers could live lavish ass lifestyles
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^Tyson was out of his prime by then...shit doesn't really mean much.
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That dude is going to keep going until he dies in the ring. W T F
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Really tho, nobody stepped to Tyson like he did. He took his best shots and kept boxing him.
I think it was the child support that killed him, that shit amounted to millions a year, for what? so the childrens mothers could live lavish ass lifestyles
I also think it is terrible how women are legally allowed to straight up milk the shit out of superstars, but he's still a fucktard for giving them the opportunity. What is this kind of shit, 10 children with 8 different bitches? Show some responsibility, man.
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You right, and there's all kinds of women tryna trap athletes like that. This dumbass took the pussy every time it was thrown at him raw dogg and I bet all the mothers aren't that attractive
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You right, and there's all kinds of women tryna trap athletes like that. This dumbass took the pussy every time it was thrown at him raw dogg and I bet all the mothers aren't that attractive
i know his daughters are ugly as fuck
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(http://www.blogar.com.br/pass/AttilaLevinNikolaiValuev.jpg)
(http://www.canadastarboxing.com/images/fighters/nikolai-valuev0610-01.jpg)
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idk what holyfields strategy to beat this guy is
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^Tyson was out of his prime by then...shit doesn't really mean much.
So was Holyfield though. Styles make fights, theres always gonna be one guy who you just cant beat. They coulda faught 10 times....Holyfield woulda beat him everytime.