Holyfield Keeps Title Hopes Alive
Savarese hurt Holyfield with an uppercut in the third but Holyfield came back to hurt and eventually knock down Savarese with a flurry of punches in the fourth. Savarese survived and remained competitive in rounds six through eight until Holyfield landed a perfect right to the body, left hook to the head combination that dropped Savarese to the canvas in round nine. Big Lou showed tremendous heart in denying Holyfield the knock out and making it to the final bell in what was likely the final fight of his professional career.
All three judges scored the fight for Holyfield: 99-87, 98-90 and 96-91.
A seemingly rejuvenated Holyfield has now won four straight and appears on the verge of getting a title shot against one of the four current beltholders ... yet another amazing chapter in the Hall of Fame career of Holyfield, who seemed completely finished after going 2-5-2 over the six year period from 1999 through 2004.
George Foreman was 45 when he knocked out Michael Moorer to become the oldest man to hold the heavyweight title. Evander Holyfield turns 45 on October 19. Stay tuned . . .
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i told ya…holy would win, because he realizes that he actually can beat those out there fighting right now and that’s the klit bros. also……….he may have to fight one other contender maybe a samuel peters…..but his experince will cause him to a s/d or m/d and then a fight with either oleg or who’s the guy to beat briggs……and HOLYFIELD will have done it again…….and then hopefully he’ll retire his @$$
Klitchko and Peter if he beats Maskaev are not two he wants to be in with at this stage of his career. The Chagaev-Ibragimov winner yes. Glad big Lou hung in there.
Yeah, Evander is one amazing warrior and would fight back against anyone specially cause he has the experience, timing and accuracy to trade with any hwt plus he has that chin and still at 44, stamina and great shape… But he’ll not fight Peter Noir cos the nigerian will get Maskaev next and since Vitaly gets the winner of that, maybe Evander can get it on with Oliver who is willing to fight anyone and is a major WBC contender… The winner of Ruslan/Sultan or the winner of Wlad/Lamon r more difficult tasks and Evander is not even ranked in WBA, IBF, WBO top 10 rankings…
Evander is still a real good second tier heavyweight and he could continue for a long time at the edge of the top current tier. He will push, of course, for a major fight, and he will lose. The top guys, almost to a man, is way big, wat tough, way hard hitting and way young. Evander has had a remarkable career and absorbed a great deal of punishment. Makes you wish he would go out on his own, as a winner in the ring and in life, and go out as healthy upstairs as he can be. It would be terrible for this great champion to end up hurt where it can’t be fixed.
fransico..baby, how ya been…..man i agree holy has taken a step back but his current wins are gonna increase his belief and faith he can do it….and at this state of the game he can win a belt….as for peters…i’m not buying to much stock…….he barely got by toney in fight #1 and #2…well he’s too big to be floating like a butterfly against a blown up lightheavy/cruiser in a sloppy toney and dude on comment 4 is right i hope he doesnt end up punch drunk…….talking about his fights with bowe then break into a song of ol mcdonald had a farm ……..ya dig
I just happen to catch the fight on ESP Classics. I am a typical fan. I miss the fun of watching a well promoted fight. My guess would be that more than 90% of Americans could not name one (1) contender in any division in any division. I watched Holyfield on ESPEN Classics and at first thought it was a fight from the early 2000’s. Who is the “Champion of the World”??