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Holyfield gave Main Events another championship, when he knocked out Buster Douglas in three rounds to win the world Heavyweight title with Duva as his co trainer along with George Benton.
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Hipp began another winning streak ( including a brutal third round knockout of Katoa in their third and final meeting ) before facing Bert Cooper in the bout Cooper fought in before facing Evander Holyfield for the world title one month later.
Holyfield and championship
After Lennox Lewis defeated Evander Holyfield for the Undisputed ( i. e., WBC + IBF + WBA ) World heavyweight championship in late 1999, the WBA mysteriously ordered Lewis to defend the title against obscure Don King fighter Ruiz, their # 1-ranked contender, but Lewis refused.
He attempted to regain his world championship against Evander Holyfield in Marseille, France, but lost by a knockout in 11 rounds.
But Holyfield soon left the division to pursue the world Heavyweight championship, and De León was left with an open door to break his own record and win the title for a record fourth time.
* November 13 – Riddick Bowe won a 12 round decision over Evander Holyfield to win the undisputed heavyweight championship.
* July 12-Evander Holyfield wins his first world title, the WBA's Cruiserweight championship, with a fifteen round decision over Dwight Muhammad Qawi.
Having failed to secure a rematch with Tyson in 1988, this time for the undisputed heavyweight championship, he made one last attempt at the big time, brought in to fight reigning cruiserweight world champion Evander Holyfield, who was making a high-profile move into the heavyweight ranks.
However Cooper bounced back in 1991, stopping Joe Hipp in 5 rounds then being matched on short notice with Evander Holyfield for the undisputed heavyweight championship after two opponents dropped out.
Holyfield and when
Holyfield moved to the cruiserweight division in 1985 and won his first title the following year, when he defeated Dwight Muhammad Qawi for the WBA Cruiserweight belt.
Seven months later, Holyfield won the 1997 rematch against Tyson, when the latter was disqualified in round three for biting off part of Holyfield's ear.
Holyfield was the next to be crowned world champion, when he beat Dwight Muhammad Qawi in 1986.
* May 17-Carlos De León becomes the first boxer to win the world Cruiserweight title four times ( and also joins a handful of champions who have won world titles in one division that many times ) when he knocks out Sammy Reeson in nine rounds in London, picking up the WBC belt that had been vacated by his former conqueror, Evander Holyfield, when Holyfield moved to the Heavyweight division.
Michael Moorer also won the Undisputed Heavyweight Championship of the World when he defeated Holyfield.
On April 24, 1998, Medina joined Carlos De León, Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson, Edwin Rosario, Evander Holyfield and a small number of other boxers in the exclusive group of fighters to reign as world champions three or more times in the same division, when he outpointed defending IBF title holder Hector Lizarraga over twelve rounds in San Jose, California.
Holyfield and knocked
On October 25, 1990, Holyfield knocked out Heavyweight Champion James " Buster " Douglas to claim the WBC, WBA, IBF & The Ring Heavyweight titles.
Despite having only boxed three world ranked heavyweights in his long career ( Bentt, Bowe and Klitschko ) and being knocked out by two of them, as well as knocked out by journeyman Joe Chingangu, Hide claimed in his autobiography that he would have beaten all time greats Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson.
Holyfield and out
* April 9-Evander Holyfield unifies his WBA world Cruiserweight title with the WBC one, knocking out Carlos De León in eight rounds at Las Vegas.
Holyfield punched out Tillis in five one-sided rounds.
Holyfield and Buster
Holyfield moved up to heavyweight in 1988, defeating Buster Douglas for the The Ring, Lineal, WBC, WBA and IBF titles in 1990.
Douglas vs Holyfield was a reported $ 24. 6 million payday for Buster, though years later he said on the Howard Stern show he walked away with $ 1. 5 million after taxes, managers, trainers, etc.
* October 25, 1990-Evander Holyfield vs. Buster Douglas
Holyfield and Douglas
Douglas held the title for eight months and two weeks, losing on October 25, 1990, to 28-year-old, 6-foot-2-inch, 208-pound Evander Holyfield, via third-round KO, in his only title defense.
Not wanting to deal with Tyson's camp or his promoter Don King, Douglas decided to make his first defense against # 1 contender Evander Holyfield, who had watched the new champion dethrone Tyson from ringside in Tokyo.
In the third round of the fight, Douglas attempted to hit Holyfield with a hard uppercut that he telegraphed.
Holyfield avoided the uppercut and hit an off-balance Douglas with a straight right to the chin to knock him down.
Holyfield and three
Ruiz has defeated three world champions in Evander Holyfield, Hasim Rahman, and Tony Tucker, as well as top contenders such as Andrew Golota, Fres Oquendo, Jameel McCline, and Kirk Johnson.
Evander Holyfield became the first Heavyweight since Muhammad Ali to win the World title three times.
Also, three bouts between Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe were contested here, one of which included the infamous " Fan Man " incident which saw a parachuter with a fan attached to his back parachute down to the ring in the middle of the fight.
Holyfield dropped Tillman three times en route to a 7th round TKO, according to WBA rules.
Holyfield and rounds
In 1996, he stepped up to the heavyweight division, but lost by knockout in five rounds to Evander Holyfield and quickly retired.
* March 3 – John Ruiz defeats Evander Holyfield in their second fight by a decision in 12 rounds, winning the WBA's World Heavyweight Championship, becoming the first Hispanic to win the world Heavyweight title.
* November 12 – Evander Holyfield beats Riddick Bowe by decision in twelve rounds to regain the world's unified Heavyweight title.
The fight, in Holyfield's hometown of Atlanta, went the full 15 rounds with Holyfield winning a split decision.
His fight with contenderEvander Holyfield where he was stopped after 10 exciting rounds, was named by Ring Magazine as the " Best Heavyweight fight of the 1980s.
Holyfield and win
Ruiz fought former champion Holyfield to fill the vacancy on August 12, 2000, losing by unanimous decision ( this result made Holyfield the first to win a world heavyweight title on four separate occasions ).
The win got Holmes a shot at Evander Holyfield for the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship.
Vázquez subsequently commented that he expected to win the " Boxer of the Year " award that was won by Evander Holyfield, but he accepted the selection under the circumstances.
In round 2 Holyfield sent Moorer down on the canvas, but Moorer overcame and went on to win a majority decision.
In this fight, Mormeck attempted to be only the third cruiserweight champion to win a world title at Heavyweight, after Evander Holyfield and David Haye.
Holyfield and world
He made a couple of defenses in Italy and then in 1988, lost his titles in a unification bout with WBA world champion Evander Holyfield, by TKO in the eighth round, also in Las Vegas.
He had Bumphus, Lockridge, Bramble and Mike McCallum crowned as world champions, and he signed future world champions Mark Breland, Evander Holyfield, Pernell Whitaker and Meldrick Taylor right after their participation in the Olympics in Los Angeles.
His activities have been attended by several celebrities, such as world champion boxers George Foreman, Evander Holyfield and Carlos Palomino, as well as a varied list of Hollywood actors.
Lane became a household name in the United States the night he refereed " The Bite Fight " rematch between world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield and challenger Mike Tyson on June 28, 1997.
Among the many world champions who have also trained at Kronk at least once during their careers are Wilfred Benítez ( in the Tucson gym ), Héctor Camacho, Julio César Chávez, Naseem Hamed, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis and Jermain Taylor.
Bowe would go on to defeat Holyfield and become undisputed world heavyweight champion.
He won two more fights, including a victory over former world heavyweight titlist Leon Spinks, before accepting a challenge from Olympian Evander Holyfield on July 12, 1986.
After the loss to Holyfield, Qawi fought off and on for the next 12 years, but never regained a world title.
He has refereed over 170 world title bouts, among which figure the first Oscar De La Hoya-Julio César Chávez meeting, Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe's first title fight and the match that saw 45-year-old George Foreman become the oldest World Heavyweight Champion in history.
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