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Five -time heavyweight champion that has never been

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1 year ago

May 11, 2025

No heavyweight has ever organized the world championship five times. However, one legend tried to demand her in the past.

Judging by his last offer, Evander Holyfield is no longer five -time weighty world champion Moniker.

Between 2010 and his pension in 2011, Holyfield was the owner of the title in the Booker T.

Holyfield won the four most significant division crown in 1990–1999. The highest triumphs of the division took place after a very successful run in the circuitous weight.

One of the boxing legends, “The Real Deal”, became undisputed in both categories.

But because he continued his career much longer than he should have at the end of 2000, Holyfield was obsessed with the recovery of any titles, that he swore that he would never retire until he became a five -time heavyweight champion.

In 2010, at the age of 47, Holyfield defeated Frans Both to become a modest owner of titles. This was by no means another level of his previous achievements. However, another Holyfield media sent to World Boxing News promoting his subsequent fights against Sherman Williams and Brian Nielsen found the opposite.

His team staged Holyfield as a five -time master, despite the fact that the rest of the sport did not see it at that time.

WBN changed several press messages from PR Holyfield for its later action.

Fortunately, the boxing legend does not see her in this way after his latest post put it all to bed. Perhaps he was not a man insisting on the claim.

“Hi a follower, just reminding why this” ring says everything. I am the only boxer who was a four-time heavyweight champion around the world, “said Holyfield.

“That is why I am called” a real offer ” – this is my nickname.”

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Talking earlier with World Boxing News, Holyfield outlined, which is what means the most.

“My goal was to be like Muhammad Ali. I achieved things that were told to me when I was adolescent.

Holyfield added which achievements stand out the most: “I would say that creating the Olympic team,”84 Olympic team in Los Angeles. “

“I was one of the twelve members. We had nine gold medalists, one silver and one bronze. I was a bronze medalist.

“This achievement is so high with me, because the fact is that it is an amateur, not money.

“You just want to represent your country, so the fact that I could do which he gave me a up-to-date start as a professional.

“My approach has a lot to do with my mother’s ups and downs. My mother wanted me to be better than her, so every time I was talking about my career, I always said that my mother was the one who led me.

“She said that my approach would take me much further than my talent. This is because everyone will break, but when you have a bad attitude, you don’t have so many chances to come back.

“So if you look at my career, you’ll see that I had many shortcomings – but because I had a good attitude, I had the opportunity to succeed.”

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Robert Garcia Analyzes Tim Tszyus Odds Against Erislandy Lara | Boxing News

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2 hours ago

November 7, 2026

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"Robert Garcia Analyzes Tim Tszyu's Odds Against Erislandy Lara | Boxing News"

Tim Tszyu seeks to become Australia’s third multi-divisional boxing world champion when he competes for Erislandy Lara’s WBA middleweight title next month, and ahead of the action, trainer Robert Garcia has offered his thoughts on the fight.

Tszyu lost his WBO super-welterweight title in a defeat to Sebastian Fundora back in 2024 and twice failed to reclaim 154lb honours, both against Bakhram Murtazaliev and in a rematch with Fundora.

Since then, the Aussie has stepped up to middleweight and scored a career-best win over Errol Spence Jr earlier this yearand now, the 32-year-old could join lead trainer Jeff Fenech and Liam Paro as his nation’s third two-weight world champion, if he can trump 43-year-old.

Speaking with ProBox TVRobert Garcia, who trains a potential future Tszyu opponent in Vergil Ortiz, admitted that he is leaning towards the home fighter, but noted that Lara will not be phased by competing in the challenger’s backyard.

“We can probably lean towards Tim Tsyzu because he is fighting at home, in front of his hometown, but Lara is not the fighter that brings in a lot of fans following him.

“He doesn’t have a following, he is not one that is going to sell out arenas, so even if it is in the United States, it is likely that most of the people are going to be [there] for Tim Tszyu because Australians do travel and Tim Tszyu has a lot of fans.

“For Lara, going to Australia is like going to Las Vegas or going to New York because he never has that following anyways. Anywhere he goes, he is going to be against the crowd. So, I think for him it is going to be one of those performances where it doesn’t make a difference if he is going to Tim Tsyzu’s hometown.”

Tszyu-Lara takes place at the Cbus Super Stadium in Queensland, Australia on Sunday 13 December.

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Malik Scott Predicts Knockout Victory for Jai Opetaia in Upcoming Fight

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3 hours ago

November 7, 2026

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"Malik Scott Predicts Knockout Victory for Jai Opetaia in Upcoming Fight"

Deontay Wilder’s former head coach Malik Scott has delivered a knockout prediction for the American’s upcoming showdown with Jai Opetaia.

The pair will square off at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on December 11, with Opetaia making his heavyweight debut on the undercard of Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua.

Despite him being the naturally smaller man, many are favouring the Australian – a former two-time world cruiserweight champion – to defeat his 10-years-older opponent.

It is, after all, generally accepted that Wilder has declined significantly since his trilogy bout with Furywho survived two knockdowns and scored an 11th-round knockout in their 2021 encounter.

Back then, Wilder had just joined forces with Scott, his former opponent, and the pair maintained their fighter-trainer relationship through subsequent defeats against Joseph Parker and Zhilei Zhang.

With Wilder now operating under different coaches, though, Scott has shared a balanced view of the Opetaia fight with Seconds Out.

“The fight’s got dynamite written all over it. Jai Opetaia is very dangerous, but he’s a smaller man that’s been hurt by smaller men than Deontay, slower men than Deontay.

“I’ve never seen Opetaia get hit by nobody like Deontay; I’ve seen Deontay get hit by bigger punchers than Opetaia. [But] one thing we can expect in this fight is a knockout.

“The name of the fight is ‘bad intentions’ – at least that’s what I’m calling it, because that’s what they share in common. What they share in common is mentality – they both are trying to hurt you.”

While he stopped short of predicting a winner, it is perhaps telling that Scott, despite his relationship with Wilder, has not explicitly favoured him to win by knockout.