By making us think he was shot in 94-96? Was his abysmal performance vsvCzyz aa rus to make Tyson think he was easy pickings or did he genuinely have problems for a while because of a botched PED regimen. Was czyz' style and size just confusing?(Evander is usually the quicker smaller guy at HW) He certainly didn't look shot vs Tyson with his excellent timing and counters and the moorer remqtchand even later he looked decent vs Lewis Imo he was never shot around 1995, he was just having temporary stamina problems while he was experimenting with different "sports supplements". And while he botched it and got hepatitis(liver problems)vs Bowe he got the perfect mix down before he beat up Tyson where he was big, strong, but still fit.
Interestingly, he looked shot in the Bowe III and Czyz fights, which were back-to-back, but then had 3 pretty good performances vs Tyson, Tyson II and Moorer II. He wasn't shot in a Tyson fight surely, he did look great that night, but I see why people thought he was spent fighter before Tyson I. Since the Moorer rematch Holy looked in a steady decline, having had 1 good fight vs Lennox II, and looked well past it against Bean, Lewis I, and Ruiz 1-3.
No. It's simple. Czyz is better than people think, for starters, and secondly, Holyfield fought the wrong fight against him. Watch the fight again. His trainer is BEGGING Holy "don't load up" and Holy is "I know, I know" ... and then he goes out and loads up on his shots again. I think he was maybe pressured to bundle Czyz out fast because he finally had an opponent that was smaller than him, and that affected the way he fought the fight.
Yeah Evander was used to fighting big, easy for him to hit guys that he could easily beat to the punch. Czyz to him must have been like Buster Mathis to Tyson
Holyfield is a proven steroids cheat, he had steroids delivered to his home address for almost 20 years of his career under the name "Evan Fields"
