Why didn't Holyfield keep Emanuel Steward on after the second Bowe fight when he looked so damn good? Was there a fall out or something?
Holyfield is/was a very tight man and did'nt want to pay what steward was asking.Its that simple.Makes you think with that mindset why he's financially on his arse:-(
Yeah, it's a little weird how a guy noted for being cheap (I've heard different stories about this) would live in a mansion with 100+ rooms and then end up in financial trouble.
I seem to remember that Manny always asks for a percentage. Holyfield didn't want any of that. I've always felt that getting rid of the excellent cutman Ace Mirada simply because he didn't want to pay him was a factor in his loss to Moorer. Having Don Turner pull double duty was ridiculous. Quite a few rich men are those that squeeze the pennies hardest, but then you get that huge mansion so...yeah.
It is very simple, it had nothing to do with the money, Evander said he was a warrior and need no trainer to make him a fightplan. He did not like to fight this way.
If Floyd Sr gets paid between 100 and 400 k gurantee, I wonder what Steward demands from the high earners.
No he wasn't. Holyfield won the first round dancing on his toes, then went to war on the inside in round 2 and got torn apart up close. Round 5 is when George Foreman yelled for a stoppage as Bowe was beating Holyfield up, and Larry Merchant saying Evander was "33 going on 53". Holyfield almost had Bowe out in round 6, but Bowe recovered, and won round 7. Bowe then caught Holyfield with a short right hand inside in the 8th in the middle of an exchange. All 3 judges had it 5-2 (but only 66-65 due to a KD and deduction) for Bowe in an easy fight to score.
Holyfield was cheap.. The guy worked with different trainers and cutmen and didn't pay them in the end. And these were guys who needed the money. Holyfield is not a nice guy. And the stories of how he acted with fans who wanted his autograph are more examples.