Evander Holyfield
Childhood Of Celebrities : Evander Holyfield
Evander Holyfield, who spent most of his childhood in Atlanta and currently lives in Fayetteville, rose to international prominence as a heavyweight boxing champion in the 1990s. He has won the world heavyweight championship three times and set more records than any other boxer.
Holyfield, the youngest of eight siblings, was born on October 19, 1962, in Atmore, Alabama. After moving to Atlanta with his family at age five, he began boxing three years later at southeast Atlanta’s Warren Memorial Boys
Club and won the club’s boxing tournament. At age eleven Holyfield qualified for the Junior Olympics, and at age sixteen he won the southeastern regional championship and took home the tournament’s best boxer award along the way. At age nineteen he won a silver medal while representing the United States at the Pan American Games in Caracas, Venezuela.
In 1983 Holyfield won the National Golden Gloves Champion, a prestigious American amateur boxing title. The next year he won a bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, reaching the semifinal round of the light-heavyweight division.
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Holyfield will be alright as long as he is matched with faded, old fighters such as Savarese. However, he may well be hurt seriously against a young and hungry contender. In my opinion, he should just walk away from boxing since he has nothing more to prove. He should just abandon his dream if he wants to stay healthy.