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Ron Borges on Valuev/Holyfield

Over at THE SWEET SCIENCE, Ron Borges has an excellent article about Saturday’s brutal (and not in a good way) matchup between the 2nd tallest fight sport competitor in the world (behind Hong-Man Choi) Nikolai Valuev and Evander Holyfield:

Evander Holyfield was right. So were the people who said he can’t fight any more.

Holyfield insisted for weeks that he could win the WBA heavyweight title from 7-foot, 310-pound Nikolay Valuev. He was correct. He could have had he not had to go to Switzerland to try and win it away from a German promoter named Wilfred Sauerland, who unfortunately for Holyfield controls both Valuev and the Swiss Boxing Commission.

But do not get your blood pressure elevated because the rest of the boxing world was right too when it insisted almost to a person that Holyfield no longer belonged inside a boxing ring. Holyfield proved that by plodding through 12 embarrassing rounds, most of them spent bouncing up and down while staying several arms lengths away from Valuev. It figures this fight was staged in Switzerland. Didn’t they sit out World War II? Valuev and Holyfield did the same thing Saturday night.

The sad thing is that 46 year old Holyfield may have been the most formidable challenger Valuev has fault. For some reason he won’t get in the ring with either Klitschko brother…..

Boxing, Valuev, Holyfield all lose @ The Sweet Science

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