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    Default Evander Holyfield: this is a sad end.

    Quite a sad end to such a glorious career, and by sad end, I do not mean the retirement but what comes with it:

    Evander Holyfield to retire - Jeff Powell boxing column | Mail Online
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    Default Re: Evander Holyfield: this is a sad end.

    Boxing is seldom a sport with happy endings. Even the greatest champs lose. Teddy Atlas has a great line in which he says "You always come out a weaker man out of that ring." I tend to agree with him.

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    Default Re: Evander Holyfield: this is a sad end.

    just scanned the article but this stuck out.... "109 rooms and 17 bathrooms" FFS who needs that many rooms and bathrooms, its just madness

    I thought his worth was over 100 mill around the Tyson days and to lost that amount is just shocking tbh

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    Default Re: Evander Holyfield: this is a sad end.

    Quote Originally Posted by Saddo View Post
    just scanned the article but this stuck out.... "109 rooms and 17 bathrooms" FFS who needs that many rooms and bathrooms, its just madness

    I thought his worth was over 100 mill around the Tyson days and to lost that amount is just shocking tbh


















    Agree and to be honest I got no sympathy at all for anyone who can spunk that kind of cash....

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    Default Re: Evander Holyfield: this is a sad end.

    Furys looking for an opponent and hes got a high ranking

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    Default Re: Evander Holyfield: this is a sad end.

    Holyfield was one fighter who I thought had it made, he had a lawyer and manager and no hangers on. However underneath that he had wives, mistresses and babies added to the fact he was spending stupid money on his mansion. He will survive but it is sad that he has not kept even a fraction of the money.
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    Default Re: Evander Holyfield: this is a sad end.

    I don't know how to feel when I read stories like this.

    On one hand, like most people I feel that anyone who can foolishly blow 350$ million, a sum that people like us can't even wrap our minds around, deserves the hole he put himself into.

    But on the other hand, I feel bad that yet another warrior is coming out the other end of the boxing tunnel a broken man.

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    Default Re: Evander Holyfield: this is a sad end.

    I don't shed much sympathy over a case like his honestly, though I didn't read the article. He obviously fought on way to long and has taken tonnes of punishment over the years, but he also made the choice to live like a king and and have a thousand kids with different women while pretending to be some devout religious type. He'll probably be able to declare bankruptcy and be of perfectly reasonable means from here on, whether he has his marbles(or ever did really) is another case of course.

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    Default Re: Evander Holyfield: this is a sad end.

    The guy did earn more money than Tyson, 350 millions.... What's shocking is not that much that he does lose a meta-mansion with 17 bathrooms but that he goes from... well, haing 350 millions to totally ruined in a very humble flat in Atlanta on top of the health problems he starts to experience because of boxing. Sure, getting married 3 times is perhaps not the smartest thing to do when you know that many women will hunt you down solely for money, he took bad decisions to arrive there but still... I always have a bit of a sadness when a great one experiences such fall
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    Default Re: Evander Holyfield: this is a sad end.

    I think most people forget , these guys who box are generally pretty low in the brains department , overkill , live like kings and then end up with nothing. Most people would give anything to have the chance of having $100.000.000 , he had his money he blew it , i dont think anything is sad about that at all.

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    Default Re: Evander Holyfield: this is a sad end.

    Yes a sad end that we all saw coming years ago. But I have no sympathy at all.

    I know Tyson seems much happier now from what I seen - not sure how Evander will fare mentally.

    Such a great champion will always be idolised by millions so am sure he will always be comfortable.
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    Default Re: Evander Holyfield: this is a sad end.

    Quote Originally Posted by Nameless View Post
    Quite a sad end to such a glorious career, and by sad end, I do not mean the retirement but what comes with it:

    Evander Holyfield to retire - Jeff Powell boxing column | Mail Online


    Well, atleast he have one hell of a bbq sauce!

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    Default Re: Evander Holyfield: this is a sad end.

    Much respect to the champ i wish him well and hope he overcomes his problems.

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    Default Re: Evander Holyfield: this is a sad end.

    we all knew ıt was comıng......

    ıts comıng to all of us.......

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