I've watched a lot of Evander's interview. They consist of him talking about his momma. His go to words are, "my thing is", "my whole thing is", "my whole big thing is", the big thing is", "well, you know, my thing is", and other variations. I still really enjoy his interviews.
I enjoy Holyfield's interviews too. There is often a "nugget" in the interview that is useful/motivational for training. In the interview at the Church St. Gym he talks about shadowboxing and says something like "a fighter should look good shadowboxing, he's just fighting air, if he can't look good fighting air, how is he going to look good against an opponent?" Another one that I haven't seen in awhile, he was being interviewed and the interviewer said something like, "you couldn't beat ______ (some older fighter)?" Holyfield said something like, "I think I can beat anybody who came before me, I know everything they knew plus some new things they didn't know." He says what he thinks.
I agree with all of the above including the last sentence as long as you're not asking him about Evan Fields!
i still don't know what to do with this. He probably beat more great fighters than any heavyweight outside of Ali, and if there were no Evan Fields, I would have to rank him as a top five fighter, maybe top three. But it is hard to ignore that fact that his name was linked to HGH trafficking. There is little doubt that he cheated, and was probably cheating in every heavyweight fight. When you realize that he cheated, so much makes sense: the strange heart problem against Moorer, the crappy fight against Cooper (probably didn't think he needed the juice), the fact that the shape of his head visibly changed over the years... I compromise and still put him 7-9.It is tough not to love the guy, but...
IMO A cheat is a cheat. He probably would have twice as many loses if he fought fair. Besides the drugs, there are the headbutts. What I don't really like about Holyfield is he's supposedly really religious. Hard to like a hypocrite. I do admire his heart and that he's humble in victory and has class in defeat.
