{"id":948938,"date":"2026-10-28T04:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T04:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948938\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T04:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T04:04:16","slug":"evander-holyfield-didnt-hesitate-to-name-the-greatest-heavyweight-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948938\/","title":{"rendered":"Evander Holyfield Didn’t Hesitate To Name The Greatest Heavyweight Of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evander Holyfield<\/a> is often credited with being one of the greatest heavyweights to have ever laced up a pair of gloves.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Real Deal\u2019 achieved great things during his professional career which culminated in him becoming the first fighter in boxing history to win the undisputed championship at cruiserweight and heavyweight.<\/p>\n

The Alabama-native had an impressive campaign at heavyweight<\/a>, defeating the likes of Riddick Bowe, Michael Moorer, Larry Holmes and George Foreman amongst many others.<\/p>\n

Holyfield came close to capturing the undisputed heavyweight championship for the second time in 1999 but fell short to legendary rival Lennox Lewis at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. <\/a><\/p>\n

In an interview with Seconds Out<\/a>, Holyfield claims that he is the greatest heavyweight of all time, playing down the credentials of the man they called \u2018The Greatest\u2019 \u2013 Muhammad Ali.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m the only four-time heavyweight champion of the world but they\u2019re still talking about Ali when I broke his record.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been the only four-time heavyweight champion of the world for 24-years. You can\u2019t talk about it til you break somebody\u2019s record and they\u2019ve not even said nothing about me. How do you cut somebody out of history?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey keep saying Ali is the best fighter, no I am. He was three times, I\u2019m four.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ali is widely considered to be the greatest heavyweight of all time, although this is debated by boxing fans and analysts even to this very day.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Greatest\u2019 captured the world heavyweight championship on several occasions during his memorable career, producing legacy-defining wins over the likes of Joe Frazier, Sonny Liston and George Foreman prior to his retirement from the sport in 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evander Holyfield is often credited with being one of the greatest heavyweights to have ever laced up a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-948938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}