I love Holyfield, and I rank him right up there with the best. His most startling performance was Tyson, he had his number! Then again he never fought a prime Tyson so we don't know do we.

What I do know though is that Holyfield was not a skilled giant killer.

He was decisively beaten by Lewis 2ce I reckon and never convincingly beat Bowe in the 2nd fight either. Similarly with the brothers, Vitali would come off top against Holyfield in what would have been a tremendous battle but Vitali was better than Bowe was imo. Wladimir is just too long, fast, slick and powerful for Holyfield. I think it could possibly have contained many jabs and many hugs lol.

But Holyfield was good and had the heart. I just have many reservations about how he'd generally perform against Lewis or the brothers.

Vitali I happen to think would beat him the most decisively because he can be both strategic and rough (so could Lewis but Lewis didn't respond as well to taking a punch so much just like Wlad).