If i say Mike Tyson, whats the first thing that come to your mind? Prison? Heavy weight worldchamp? The Hangover? or when he took a bit out of another fighters ear during a fight? Well that guy is my favorite boxer of all time, you might have heard of him. Evander “The Real Deal” Holyfield. A fucking tank. Wouldnt go down for anyone or anything, wasnt the as flashy as Ali or for say Tyson, Iron Mike who have knocked out more fighters than he hade zeros on his bank account. No this guy was a humble champ with the right mindset. No real headlines, no real scandals or other stuff that boxer today and through the years have. An class act that fought to prove, that inpires me to prove. His drive was based on the fact that no one thought he was anything compaired to Mike. He was overlooked time after time due to his boxingstyle, but got the last laugh when he beat “Iron” on the 9 of november, 1996. A TKO or a tecnical knockout stopped the fight and left Holyfield victorious in the fight that everyone call a cakewalk for Tyson. But determination beats skill in a lot of cases in history, for example the 1980 US olympic hockey team, who beat the Soviets 3-4 in the quaters druing the olympic games in Lake Placid NY, even though they lost to the same team earlier in the year by a score of 10-3 in an exhibitching-game before the games. So the career of Holyfield is a bit of a feel good-story. He talks about how he is driven by proving people wrong, for doubting his ability and proved them wrong, me as a bit of a person who gets overlooked a lot find this moving. The fact that he did what he did and the only thing people thinks of him is that he got bitten by Tyson and that pisses me off a bit. But thats the whole thing with Evander. No one adire what he has acomplished, but he doesnt care and if he did focus on everything that people says he wouldnt be where he is now. Peace.
There is an great 30 for 30 ESPN documentery on this fights and everything around it, if you for some reason found this post and found this intresting. Look it up.
