Quote Originally Posted by Spicoli View Post
Man you guys are bru-tal Yeh minus the rehab and being 'world ranked' and 3rd by Ring Dokes was a regular Glass Joe . Great acid test and ko for a guy making only his third pro start as a heavyweight I'd say. Todays "prospects" would kill to be able to say that.
No I was just saying what Holyfield said. Evander said he fought Dokes who had gone through drug issues and he had been KO'd by Gerrie Coetzee and not really stepped his competition back up to the top level...Evander said here this guy was and he was supposed to be easy pickings a heavyweight fighter on the way down and Evander said Dokes gave him one of the toughest fights of his life and because of that he swore he'd never underestimate an opponent again. So the point is Holyfield was caught looking past Dokes not that Dokes was a bad fighter but given his recent troubles before the fight you can see why he looked past him. The man had fought Tex Cobb a few fights before Holyfield!

Dokes like many of his era had great potential but drugs took some of that away.