Ricky Womack

I have been preaching this for yrs. Any analytical reader can see what an authors' agenda is; or a whitewash job.

 

Well, well. I decided to do some more research into Womack and the episode where Holyfield cried so I googled that and this thread showed up with the above quote right in it:

https://www.boxingforum24.com/threa...ways-intimidated-by-evander-holyfield.539611/

You will notice that 5 years ago, @klompton2 was telling a different version of the story: in this one it was in a camp. Today it’s a tournament (which it was — Phil Berger set the record straight on that for the New York Times back in 1987 in a story where he also made it clear Evander was angry, not intimidated, and that he won the fight that night).

That’s not a big difference, honestly. Hardly worth mentioning — except when it comes from a Master Researcher who is always (according to him) right because he spent a lot of time in libraries looking at microfilm to write a book that he published (which is great, nothing to distract from there).

But if a guy devoted to research, who hangs his entire reputation on the meticulousness of his boxing tales and opinions, cannot keep his story straight while changing the narrative to try to say Evander was intimidated by Womack ... again, it makes me wonder what kind of liberties he took in his book.