MEETING EVANDER HOLYFIELD TONiGHT - ANY QUESTIONS??

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  1. SLAKKA

    SLAKKA Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Beat Joe Louis?
    Then ask him about Eddie Futch stating Ezzard would take him no problemo.
     
  2. TheMikeLake

    TheMikeLake Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Ask him if he's really retired. He told UK press a couple weeks ago he isn't.

    Someone said they wish they hadn't met him, but I did and thought he was really nice, and was surprised when I got done the interview ended so quick. He was ready to give me more time.
     
  3. Azzer85

    Azzer85 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Seeing as he fought Bowe and Tyson and Lewis
    ask him how he felt Tyson/Bowe would have gone and of course Bowe/Lewis
     
  4. Mendoza

    Mendoza Hrgovic = Next Heavyweight champion of the world. banned Full Member

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    He's a little shorter than you might expect. Ask him if he ever wants to manager boxers.
     
  5. fatcity

    fatcity Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Yes.Who is more stupid and can go through 200 million dollars more quickly-you or Mike Tyson?:patsch
     
  6. Delicious

    Delicious Active Member Full Member

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    U k m8?
     
  7. RockysSplitNose

    RockysSplitNose Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Hey guys was a pretty awesome night lastnight - did really get chance to talk with him to any great extent 1-2-1 but he did talk, or was interviewed for about 2-3 hours I was pretty much on the top table aswell so was only really about 10ft from him the whole time - in answer to some of the stuff brought up he said without any doubt the hardest puncher he was ever hit by was George Foreman - seemed pretty much without any shadow of a doubt - seemed pretty in awe of the guy all round really - said that when he got you good it made your whole body go numb and he also thought that at one point he thought George had maybe knocked some of his teeth out - his face had gone all numb etc and he didn't have any feeling in his mouth when he went back to his corner so he asked his corner if his teeth were all still there because he couldn't feel anything he also said that George was the only man he just could not physically move back - he simulated crouching in there and shoving and shoulder barging with all his might but just said he soon realised he was never gunna move the guy one inch so he said to himself I gotta do this differently and just go around the guy instead - he said he got a bit spooked when he saw footage of Foreman doing that jeep pulling stuff in training and carrying cattle over his shoulders etc - he said Foreman was far and away the strongest he fought but he said the best he fought all round was Riddick Bowe and said he was great outside and great on the inside too - he was asking at one point to give one word responses to different names of guys he'd fought -Qawi (tough!!? Just tough!?), Foreman (big punch), Holmes (good jab), Buster Douglas (and there was a shout of fat! Then Holyfield looked sheepish and laughed himself and seemed to be struggling for something nice to say and then he said no "skillful!) haha - Tyson (then he kinda grimaced and then he tried to defend Tyson and said that they were brothers etc and that if Tyson fought like a street fighter sometimes then he (Holyfield) would simply match him for dirtiness if it came to it haha (he did say he and his peers saw him as an inspiration when there were coming up through the ranks because he was so impressed that a guy who was that short and with that short arms could still out jab guys who were 6'4"
    Or 6'5" or whatever because it is very hard to compete with that kind of handicap so basically people just don't appreciate how much skill it took (aswell as all the slam bang aggression) to be successful like he was etc - he didn't really answer the question as to who in history would he have loved to have fought - he pretty much said you should simply respect all the previous generations great fighters because it's really just building on what we see of previous fighters that makes us be as good as we are now - oh and he called Lennox Lewis 'the most improved fighter' ever in terms of how much he improved as fighter over the course of his career etc - oh and he never stopped talking about "my momma" hahaha the first line of every response started with "well my momma she told me...." Hahaha so much so that after the 50th time he'd responded with "my momma..." Everyone started laughing to which the interviewer said "it sounds like I REALLY wouldn't of wanted to mess with your momma!!?" Hahaha well great night all round really and got an awesome signed and framed picture thingy to go with my collection - didn't make the official after show party at the local lap dancing club tho ( haha. Oh and the next boxing night they're arranging is Tommy The hit Man Hearns coming over next so will definitely look to get to that one aswell
     
  8. TheMikeLake

    TheMikeLake Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Did he say he was officially retired?
     
  9. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Great stuff, Rocky. Thank you for sharing.

    According to all reports, from separate decades, Foreman really was a beast.
     
  10. TheNeonSalmon

    TheNeonSalmon Active Member Full Member

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    and I ask you why would you be so quick to believe rumors and bull**** with zero actual proof.

    "Holyfield took steroids because he used to be 190 pounds and then he was 205...oh my god!...and someone called him and he said hello I am Evan Fields...I would like some steroids please."
     
  11. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    So, it was another Evan Fields who had the same address and phone number as Evander who had prescriptions of HGH, testosterone, Glukor and other PED's sent to him from Applied Pharmacy?
     
  12. Zakman

    Zakman ESB's Chinchecker Full Member

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    There are no tests showing Holyfield ever took any illegal substance. And until there is, he is innocent until proven guilty.
     
  13. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Of course he is. And so are A-Rod and Barry Bonds and Lance Armstrong.
     
  14. Monogamous STD

    Monogamous STD Ya know, Quasimoto predicted all this. Full Member

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    I envy you. Awesome stuff.