After he won the cruiserweight belt against Dwight Qawi in July of 1986, Evander fought once more that year. He traveled to Paris, France in December, and knocked out Mike Brothers in three rounds, a non-title bout. His first defense came in February of 1987 against Henry Tillman. They were teammates on the 1984 Olympic […]

      On July 12, 1986, Evander met Dwight Qawi at the Omni in Atlanta, Georgia for the WBA Cruiserweight title. I personally was in Long Beach, California at the time, attending airline training classes for an airline I had just been hired for. I was alone in my hotel room that Saturday afternoon,

  Evander Holyfield was born on October 19, 1962 in Atmore, Alabama. He later moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he lived most of his childhood. He competed as an amateur boxer in the 1984 Olympic games in Los Angeles, where he won a disputed bronze medal in the light heavyweight division. He was part of

 Following his career defining knockout of Mike Tyson in June of 2002, there were no more mountains for Lennox Lewis to climb. He did not fight for a year before he agreed to fight the less talented of the Klitschko brothers, Vitali, on June 21, 2003 in Los Angeles. Lewis was supposed to take on

  I was rooting hard for Lennox Lewis to knock out Mike Tyson. Tyson is on my list of my least favorite fighters. I never liked his crass or foul mouth, and it was a privilege to see Evander Holyfield stop him in person in Vegas on November 9, 1996. The public wanted so hard

The biggest fight in boxing in 2002 was finally set, when Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson signed to meet each other on June 8. Las Vegas rejected the bout because of Tyson’s suspensions in Nevada, and Memphis, Tennessee agreed to host the mega event. A pre-fight press conference announcing the fight was held on January

Lennox Lewis traveled to South Africa on April 21, 2001 to take on Hasim Rahman. Rahman had been a regular on USA’s Tuesday night fights, and was a decent enough fighter, but I really didn’t think Lennox would have any trouble with him. I sat down on my recliner to tune into the action on

  Lennox Lewis made the third defense of his heavyweight crown on November 11, 2000 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas against the top contender available in David Tua. Tua had an impressive record of 37-1, had defeated three future heavyweight champions, and had a huge punch. Lewis had hoped to have the bout

,After his destruction of Michael Grant on April 29, Lennox Lewis traveled back to England to make a title defense in his hometown on July 15, 2000. The bout at the London Arena would be against the 9th ranked heavyweight, Francois Botha of South Africa. Botha had been competitive in his fight with Mike Tyson

After the rematch with Holyfield in November of 1999, Lennox traveled back to New York to take on the challenge of Michael Grant, a 6′ 7″ young contender with a promising future. The April 29 fight had boxing talking again, because as the heavyweight division goes, so goes the sport. The WBA had stripped Lewis