Dream homes, wasted earnings, biblical maxims, complex personalities, impossible challenges: inside the life of a champion who is not just that of Tyson’s severed ear …
The sixty years of Evander Holyfield are an opportunity to do a little … justice, at least from the point of view of the boxing narrative and the celebration of what has been his greatness: the historic reach of a boxer capable of winning the world title in the Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight, to rise to the higher category becoming World Champion and managing, like Ali, to conquer the belt three times; to beat two like Foreman and Holmes, even after meeting them when they lived the twilight of their careers; that he was the only one who defeated Mike Tyson twice. This is why, precisely with regard to the latter, it is simply unfair to celebrate someone like Holyfield only through the famous and sensational episode of the bitten ear by Iron Mike: a pill of history, even if great, must not be overexposed to the point of obscuring the story itself.
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