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Holyfield bravado has familiar comeback ring

By Thomas Gerbasi
MaxBoxing.com

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

"They told me I wouldn't beat Dwight Muhammad Qawi, but I did it. They told me I wouldn't be the heavyweight champ of the world, that I wouldn't beat Buster Douglas. 'Evander Holyfield's a nice guy, but when Buster Douglas hits him one time, that's it.' I hit Buster Douglas and that was it. Then they said Douglas was fat, he was this and that, but it wasn't up to me to keep Buster in shape; that ain't my business." -- Evander Holyfield Holyfield One of my first questions to Evander Holyfi ...

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