Evander Holyfield went up against some of boxing’s best ever heavyweights in his storied career.
After becoming undisputed at cruiserweight, Holyfield moved up to the banner division and it didn’t take him long to make a big impact.
He became undisputed champion with a third round knockout win against Buster Douglas, and then went on to have world title contests against some huge names.
One of them was boxing legend George Foreman, who Holyfield met in April 1991. It ended in a unanimous decision victory for Holyfield, with the judges scoring it 117-110, 116-111 and 115-112 in his favour.
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After first losing his world titles to Riddick Bowe and then again to Michael Moorer, Holyfield’s next crack at world honours came when he challenged WBA heavyweight champion Mike Tyson in November 1996.
Holyfield won by 11th round TKO to become world champion again, before their rematch seven months later infamously ended in disqualification after Tyson bit the ear of his rival.
Having shared the ring with both Tyson and Foreman, Holyfield has now revealed to Fighthype which of the two men he deemed to be a bigger puncher – that is Foreman, ‘a lot harder.’
“George Foreman. A lot harder, a lot bigger too though.”
Foreman still holds the record as the oldest world heavyweight champion in history, and ended his career with a record of 76 wins and 5 defeats, with a mammoth 68 of those victories coming by knockout, giving him a KO ratio of over 89%.
Tyson recently returned for a controversial clash with Jake Paul, suffering a defeat on points to take his record to 50 wins and 7 defeats, 44 of those wins by knockout. It puts Tyson’s knockout ratio at 88%, meaning Foreman does just edge the stats slightly.
