Evander holyfield children
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Evander Holyfield yawned once, twice, three times. Even a young boxer’s eyes look perpetually tired—the damage quickly accumulates around them—but at the Westin on Peachtree, at a cacophonous professional boxing event called the Big Rock Out, the forty-eight-year-old Holyfield slouched in his chair, eyelids drooping. He waited until after accepting a career award called the Ring of Honor—the reason he was there—to leave. The penultimate fight was in its sixth round when, at 10:38 p.m., accompanied by Mike Weaver, his nephew and confidante, Holyfield quietly departed. He paused to pose for a few pictures on the way out. A man selling T-shirts noticed this small act and said to another man, “That’s the mark of a true champion.”
Photo by David Walter Banks |
As he left the event in carefully scuffed designer jeans, shiny black loafers, and a pressed shirt, Holyfield also had on the black leather jacket he’d been presented for a lifetime of achievement: the wins over Buster Douglas, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Riddick Bowe, John Ruiz, and Mike Tyson (twice). The back was le
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Holyfield, Evander 1962- (The Real Deal)
PERSONAL:
Born October 19, 1962, in Atmore, GA; son of Annie Laura Holyfield; married Paulette (divorced, 1991); married Janice Itson, 1996 (divorced, 2000); married Candi Calvana Smith, July 3, 2003; children: six sons and five daughters. Hobbies and other interests: Basketball, dancing, and listening to music.
ADDRESSES:
Office—Holyfield Foundation, 794 Evander Holyfield Hwy., Fairburn, GA 30213. Agent—Holyfield Management, 794 Evander Holyfield Hwy., Fairburn, GA 30213.
CAREER:
Boxer, businessperson, writer. Amateur boxer, c. 1972-84; professional boxer, 1984—. Fought as cruiserweight (190-pound division), 1984-88; won World Boxing Council (WBC), World Boxing Association (WBA), and International Boxing Federation (IBF) championships; became undisputed cruiserweight champion, April, 1988; moved to heavyweight division, 1988; became undisputed heavyweight champion October 25, 1990, with third-round knockout of James "Buster" Douglas; retired briefly after losing decision to Riddick Bowe, November 13, 1992; became WBA/IBF heavy
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Evander Holyfield
American boxer (born 1962)
Evander Holyfield (born October 19, 1962) is an American former professional boxer who competed between 1984 and 2011. He reigned as the undisputed champion[a] in the cruiserweight division in the late 1980s and at heavyweight in the early 1990s, and was the only boxer in history to win the undisputed championship in two weight classes in the "three-belt era", a feat later surpassed by Terence Crawford, Naoya Inoue and Oleksandr Usyk, who became two-weight undisputed champions in the four-belt era. Nicknamed "the Real Deal", Holyfield is the only four-time world heavyweight champion, having held the unifiedWorld Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), and International Boxing Federation (IBF) titles from 1990 to 1992, the WBA and IBF titles again from 1993 to 1994, the WBA title a third time from 1996 to 1999; the IBF title a third time from 1997 to 1999 and the WBA title for a fourth time from 2000 to 2001.
As an amateur, Holyfield represented the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics, winning the
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