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we're at the newly renovated boardwalk00:00:02
convention center in atlantic city new00:00:04
jersey for another edition00:00:05
of world championship boxing tonight00:00:08
future hall of famer evander holyfield00:00:10
takes on fellow former heavyweight champ00:00:12
hassim rahman in a matchup critical to00:00:15
the careers of both men00:00:17
with heavyweights dominating the boxing00:00:18
news these days we bring you a00:00:20
compelling crossroads matchup00:00:22
between two of the division's biggest00:00:23
names this side of lenox lewis and mike00:00:25
tyson00:00:26
the incomparable evander holyfield now00:00:29
39 years old00:00:30
tries to keep alive his dream of again00:00:32
winning the undisputed heavyweight title00:00:35
in a bout against a dangerous and00:00:36
equally desperate former champ00:00:38
haseem rahman who like holyfield looks00:00:41
to punch his way00:00:42
back into the title picture00:00:46
hello again everybody and welcome to00:00:48
atlantic city for this special night00:00:50
on world championship boxing already00:00:52
you've enjoyed00:00:53
the 30 minute countdown to lenox lewis00:00:55
and mike tyson00:00:56
next week in memphis this is a pivotal00:00:58
month in the heavyweight division00:01:00
tonight00:01:01
as the stakes have already been00:01:03
articulated here has seemed rachman00:01:05
against evander holyfield here in00:01:06
atlantic city00:01:07
one man will move forward one man will00:01:10
step further back00:01:11
next week louis against tyson there's00:01:14
already been a lot said and much more00:01:16
will be said00:01:17
in the next seven days for sure before00:01:18
we're there in memphis00:01:20
next saturday night live pay-per-view00:01:22
and then on the 29th of this month back00:01:24
here in atlantic city00:01:25
rapidly rising top contender regarded by00:01:28
many as the heir apparent to the title00:01:30
vladimir klitschko of the ukraine will00:01:32
face his toughest tests so far00:01:35
in the person of durable tough american00:01:38
heavyweight ray mercer a man who gave both holyfield00:01:41
and lewis00:01:42
all they could handle in his battles00:01:44
with them so let's get it started00:01:46
with the expertise of two-time former00:01:48
heavyweight champion00:01:50
george foreman and george uh 11 years00:01:52
ago on this same piece of00:01:54
turf you fought against evander00:01:55
holyfield who was regarded by00:01:57
at that time as too small to be00:02:01
a top-notch legitimate heavyweight he'd00:02:03
already won the title he showed his00:02:04
bravery against you00:02:06
could you have foreseen that 11 years00:02:07
later at 39 he'd still be around making00:02:10
a mark00:02:11
in the heavyweight division you can00:02:12
almost bet on it if you're a young00:02:14
champion you're going to be an old00:02:15
contender sooner or later00:02:17
joe lewis fought more ex-heavyweight00:02:18
champion than anyone else in the world00:02:20
rocking martian he came along and00:02:22
fighting jersey joe walcott00:02:23
and all of them if you stick around in00:02:25
the heavyweight division you're going to00:02:26
see00:02:27
more ex-champions than anywhere in the00:02:29
world geriatrics rewarded00:02:31
yeah george oldest heavyweight champ of00:02:34
all time well00:02:35
it began for evander holyfield with the00:02:37
disappointment los angeles in 198400:02:40
when because of in the eyes of many an00:02:42
unwarranted disqualification00:02:44
bronze suddenly turned to gold for the00:02:46
amateur star from atlanta00:02:48
and for evander holyfield it's been an00:02:50
uphill fight ever since then00:02:52
earlier this week he sat down with larry00:02:55
merchant to talk about00:02:56
his tumultuous career00:03:00
you've been in so many hard fights00:03:03
you've had so many honors00:03:04
you've made so much money00:03:08
what drives you to keep boxing to be00:03:11
the champ to be the best and once i00:03:16
lost the title in 1982 you read both00:03:20
you know i was i was gonna quit you were00:03:23
i'll go quit and now like but i realized00:03:26
that00:03:27
you know i wouldn't be the champ that i00:03:30
said00:03:32
i am if i quit in the chase00:03:35
of being the undisputed heavyweight00:03:36
champion of the world again00:03:38
have allowed my career to come here to00:03:40
2002.00:03:41
do you make any concession to time00:03:45
any concession two you can't do all the00:03:48
same things at 39 as you could at 29.00:03:52
well i i i don't believe that and i00:03:54
believe that00:03:55
when there's nothing wrong when there00:03:58
haven't been an injury you have taken00:04:00
care of your body00:04:01
so you know what you can do you know i00:04:04
i'm realistic about00:04:06
things some things i don't want to do00:04:08
tomorrow what can't you do00:04:10
it was a lot easier when i was younger00:04:12
cause i used to go out dancing all the00:04:14
time and so dance was a part of my workout i00:04:17
stayed on the dance for three to four hours i i00:04:20
loved dancing but00:04:21
it had a lot to do with the way i felt00:04:24
you know dance is all about rhythm00:04:26
boxing it's about rhythm it's00:04:28
about how do you make the adjustment00:04:31
and be in the perfect stance and let00:04:33
your hands go how do you get back in the00:04:35
stands for defense00:04:37
now because i don't go dancing like that00:04:39
i have to think and i have to quote00:04:41
myself00:04:42
i need to get in a rhythm and i have to00:04:44
remind myself00:04:45
if you don't win this fight will you00:04:48
retire00:04:49
no i i will not retire00:04:53
because i only way i could lose this00:04:55
fight00:04:56
for me not to go out and fight and you00:04:59
know if it go to a decision the decision00:05:01
may00:05:02
can go either way and i would have to00:05:04
get back in line if it means getting in00:05:06
line two or three more times00:05:07
then i'll get back in line so in effect00:05:10
you're saying00:05:11
unless i get beaten up i'm going to keep00:05:15
going well you know i'm never ever going to00:05:17
get beat up i may get cautious and shot00:05:19
but i'm not going to get beat up00:05:20
i never got beaten up00:05:26
red bull on the person that came close00:05:28
to doing that00:05:29
in because she's you know that was a00:05:32
fight that made me00:05:33
really like say i i don't know if i ever00:05:36
want to go back through that again00:05:38
do you sense that people who have come00:05:41
to00:05:43
respect admire even love you as a prize00:05:46
fighter00:05:47
are concerned about you somehow they00:05:50
don't want to see you get hurt i truly00:05:52
believe that people love me and i know00:05:54
that people are very concerned00:05:56
but uh they have to understand that i00:05:59
have to make a decision that00:06:00
that's right for me because when it all00:06:03
come down you know i'm gonna have to pay00:06:04
the price if i don't make it00:06:06
i'm gonna pay the price if i do make it00:06:08
and not this but because this is what00:06:10
made me the man that i am00:06:14
17 years in counting his professional00:06:16
career and ongoing triumph of the will00:06:18
larry is is00:06:20
evander holyfield delusional at this00:06:21
point to think that he can win back the00:06:23
heavyweight championship of the world00:06:25
delusional but determined and once upon00:06:28
a time that was00:06:30
a potent mix for amanda holyfield00:06:33
remember that epic 10th round in the00:06:35
first of the three fights00:06:36
with beau when he was battered from00:06:39
pillar00:06:40
to post to color and yet by the middle00:06:43
of the round00:06:44
he was doing the battering herridic bow00:06:47
and when he was asked after the fight00:06:50
how did it feel like when he was almost00:06:52
knocked out00:06:53
what he said was that's when i knew i00:06:56
had him i had him where i wanted him and that's00:07:00
pure evander holyfield delusional00:07:03
but determined and now once again he's00:07:06
being battered00:07:07
battered with the question of ander why00:07:10
don't you do the decent thing00:07:12
and go off peacefully into that good00:07:15
night00:07:16
of retirement he has us where he wants00:07:19
us00:07:20
so now let's find out tonight if he's00:07:22
got haseem rachman where he wants him00:07:24
and george00:07:25
what about the choice by rachman coming00:07:27
off his devastating knockout loss00:07:29
against lennox lewis00:07:30
to go up against the cages old rat in00:07:32
the barn i think this is a wise choice00:07:35
evidently he's a good manager in mind i00:07:37
don't know if he's got the best trainer00:07:38
available00:07:39
but he decided that look i'm going to be00:07:40
the most famous00:07:42
renowned boxer around he knocks it down00:07:44
the holy phil out he's00:07:46
top of the heap again wise decision00:07:48
right time00:07:49
the right thing exactly the reason why00:07:51
rachman says he chose to take this fight00:07:53
he wanted to be right back into the00:07:55
first sentence of consideration00:07:56
for the heavyweight championship so00:07:58
let's start the countdown to the00:07:59
pageantry now00:08:00
tail of the tape between holyfield and00:08:02
rockmon and there is one fascinating00:08:04
number here00:08:05
it's not the age we know that holyfield00:08:08
10 years older at 3900:08:09
they're just about equal in height a00:08:11
reach advantage of four and a half00:08:13
inches for rachman00:08:14
look at the weight at the bottom00:08:16
holyfield a trim and slim00:08:18
216. he's always been in great condition00:08:21
rachman fought lewis in south africa at00:08:24
238 pounds he fought lewis in las vegas00:08:27
at 236 pounds00:08:29
he fires trainer adrian davis hires00:08:31
bowie fisher who used to train bernard00:08:33
hopkins00:08:34
and enters here at 224 he himself seemed00:08:37
shocked by how low that number is punched at00:08:40
numbers larry00:08:46
[Music]00:08:49
these days sir you can see jim00:08:53
that holyfield throws fewer punches00:08:56
these days as a counter puncher00:08:58
rockman is more active generally00:09:04
jabs rockman figures to throw more jabs00:09:07
under the tutelage00:09:08
of bowie fisher and that's his key to00:09:12
victory rules at about with our unofficial00:09:14
ringside scorer harold letterman the00:09:16
evander hold the field hussein brockman00:09:18
fight00:09:19
is scheduled for 12 rounds non-title00:09:21
using the unified rules of the00:09:23
association and boxing commissions00:09:24
there is no three knockbound rule only00:09:27
the referee can stop the fight00:09:28
in case a cut is caused by an accidental00:09:30
headbutt we go to the scorecards after00:09:32
four rounds have been completed00:09:33
and you cannot be saved by the bell in00:09:35
any round including00:09:36
the 12th and final round jim00:09:40
all right as you watch tonight viewers00:09:42
we ask you to log onto hbo.comboxing00:09:44
cast your vote on what you think will be00:09:46
the outcome of next saturday night's00:09:48
heavyweight championship battle between00:09:50
lewis and tyson00:09:51
we'll give you the results at the00:09:52
conclusion of tonight's telecast also00:09:54
our live trainer audio00:09:55
allows you to choose which trainer and00:09:57
corner men you want to listen to00:09:58
during tonight's evander holyfield00:10:01
hassem rockmon fight00:10:04
and here comes the rock00:10:08
he had a short and very happy reign as a00:10:12
heavyweight champion00:10:13
being celebrated by his hometown of00:10:16
baltimore00:10:17
and doing a lot of celebrating himself00:10:20
but we have learned that he00:10:22
really was in great turmoil leading up00:10:25
to the rematch00:10:27
with a trainer he didn't speak to for a00:10:29
month00:10:30
and then didn't get a new trainer and00:10:32
also he revealed to us00:10:34
that he actually fasted on the day of00:10:37
the fight00:10:38
for a muslim religious holiday00:10:42
big mistakes his idea was that00:10:46
since he could eat after sundown on00:10:48
ramadan00:10:49
that he would have time to eat and00:10:51
prepare for the fight which he did00:10:54
but nevertheless in the wake of the easy00:10:56
lewis knockout00:10:57
there were numerous questions about uh00:10:59
rachman's state of mind coming into the00:11:01
fight particularly when he revealed that he00:11:03
had been totally at odds with his00:11:05
trainer adrian davis prior to the fight00:11:07
brachman claims that he and davis did not speak00:11:10
to each other00:11:11
in the five weeks leading to the fight00:11:12
he says in fact that if he hadn't paid00:11:14
davis in advance00:11:15
he would have fired him and hired00:11:16
another trainer then now he's with bowie00:11:19
fisher who trained bernard hopkins to his big00:11:22
victory over felix trinidad last year00:11:24
before splitting from hopkins00:11:29
is an advocate of the manly art of00:11:33
self-defense00:11:35
he wants lachman00:11:38
to set up his big punches00:11:41
not to just wing them but is it a good00:11:44
idea00:11:45
to bring in a new trainer with new ideas00:11:49
just before an important fight typical00:11:52
of many reasons american heavyweight00:11:54
stars rachman00:11:55
came into the sport late from other00:11:57
experiences as a basketball00:11:59
and football player and holyfield says00:12:03
that's his weakness he's still an00:12:04
amateur he never learned all the things00:12:06
i learned in my lengthy amateur career00:12:10
well as rockman put it they were asking00:12:13
holyfield00:12:14
whether he was going to retire before he00:12:16
had even put on gloves for the first00:12:22
time00:12:24
and the continuing life of the ring of00:12:26
evander holyfield00:12:28
look at that 22 fights in his career00:12:31
against past or current champion that00:12:34
refers00:12:35
not just to his fights in the00:12:36
heavyweight division but also in the00:12:38
light heavyweight00:12:39
and the cruiserweight division as well00:12:53
[Music]00:12:55
fight in and fight out the most00:12:58
consistently00:12:59
entertaining fighter in boxing over the00:13:02
course of the past00:13:03
15 years in my view jim he's been the00:13:06
best fighter in boxing00:13:08
over that time i guess the question many00:13:11
of us00:13:12
ask ourselves is why does a man with00:13:15
nine children00:13:16
a 55 000 square foot house00:13:20
with 12 bedrooms and 20 bathrooms00:13:23
still want to do this because it's there00:13:27
because he defines himself by this as a00:13:30
prize fighter00:13:32
on stage challenging the best00:13:42
when you've spent your life proving you00:13:45
can do what others00:13:46
said you couldn't it's hard to give it00:13:49
up00:13:56
he was a bullied yesterday as confident00:13:59
and expansive as we've ever seen him00:14:01
talking at length about his life and his00:14:03
career00:14:04
and looking toward this with great00:14:06
confidence and assurance00:14:08
that he can once again be the real deal00:14:13
and now let's go to ring announcing00:14:14
jimmy lennon jr00:14:16
for the official introductions00:14:22
[Music]00:14:26
city new jersey as we have a big night00:14:30
of action coming away00:14:31
and it's all brought to you by dawn king00:14:34
productions in association with hbo sports valleys00:14:38
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this map coming away is sanctioned by00:14:46
the new jersey state athletic control00:14:48
board00:14:49
larry hazard commissioner the chairman00:14:51
is jerry gormley00:14:52
board member stephen katz introducing to00:14:56
you our three judges scoring this main00:14:58
event from ringside00:14:59
from new york melvina lathan from new00:15:02
jersey john00:15:03
stewart also from new jersey steve00:15:06
weisfeld00:15:07
and the third man to the ring our00:15:08
referee in charge he'll be giving00:15:10
instructions after the introductions00:15:12
tony orlando00:15:16
all right fans here we go 12 rounds of00:15:19
boxing and a heavyweight elimination special00:15:22
attraction00:15:23
and now ladies and gentlemen in00:15:25
attendance and boxing fans joining us00:15:28
around the world live from atlantic city00:15:32
new jersey00:15:33
it's time for the main event of00:15:36
the evening00:15:40
[Music]00:15:41
introducing to you first on my left he00:15:45
is fighting out of the blue corner00:15:46
entering the ring wearing blue trunks00:15:48
with silver trim00:15:50
hailing from baltimore maryland he00:15:53
weighed in00:15:54
at 224 pounds00:15:57
his record says 35 wins three losses00:16:01
29 big wins coming by way of knockout00:16:04
he is currently ranked the wbc number00:16:07
three contender00:16:08
ladies and gentlemen please welcome the00:16:11
former00:16:12
heavyweight champion of the world00:16:14
introducing00:16:17
[Music]00:16:20
haseem00:16:24
[Music]00:16:26
and his opponent of rostering on my00:16:29
right ready to fight out of the red00:16:31
corner00:16:32
entering the ring wearing red trunks00:16:34
with purple trim00:16:36
representing his hometown of atlanta00:16:39
georgia he weighed in at a ready 21600:16:44
pounds his record 37 wins00:16:47
five losses two draws with 2500:16:51
wins coming by way of knockout ladies00:16:54
and gentlemen please welcome00:16:56
boxing's true warrior here is00:16:59
the one and only four-time heavyweight00:17:04
[Music]00:17:12
[Applause]00:17:16
field00:17:20
once again here's our referee in charge00:17:22
now to give instructions00:17:23
tony orlando 12 rounds of boxing00:17:33
okay gentlemen you receive my00:17:35
instructions in dressing room therefore00:17:36
i expect a clean00:17:38
professional fight once you watch your00:17:40
heads watch your low blows00:17:42
listen to my commands at want your all00:17:44
times00:17:45
go back to your corner wait for the bell00:17:48
early in his career00:17:50
evander holyfield used to take opponents00:17:52
to the woodshed00:17:54
later in his career he's been trying to00:17:56
take them to school00:17:58
yesterday he indicated that maybe he has00:18:01
to rethink all of this school stuff00:18:04
so let's see if he tries to recapture00:18:07
some of his youth00:18:09
against a conventional opponent00:18:13
george does rock's new sleek 224 pound00:18:16
body mean that he's definitely going to00:18:17
be00:18:18
boxing moving and staying outside it00:18:20
wouldn't hurt him to box and move i tell00:18:22
you that00:18:23
holyfield is not a good aggressor he00:18:25
does best when you bring the fight to00:18:27
him so you want to move around to step00:18:30
in jail step in jab and wait until he00:18:32
make a mistake00:18:33
he's not able to get away from right00:18:34
hands like he used to00:18:37
holyfield has got to make certain that00:18:38
if he get hit with anything it's a left00:18:40
foot00:18:41
because this guy's got nothing on the00:18:42
left hook it's the right hand you've got00:18:43
to be aware of00:18:46
in his big win over lewis and south00:18:48
africa rockmon threw many jabs by00:18:51
compubox numbers00:18:52
28 per round in his loss to lewis in las00:18:55
vegas he was much00:18:56
less active with the jab and that00:18:58
created new opportunities for lennox00:19:01
it's good that rockman is faster though00:19:02
a little weight off him he can bounce00:19:04
around every now and then00:19:12
[Applause]00:19:14
both fighters popping to the body00:19:17
in the first minute rockman working the00:19:19
jab upstairs00:19:20
holyfield sends an air mail right too00:19:23
long00:19:24
you see holyfield he has his back00:19:27
punches that left hook to the body00:19:29
it's too bad he's never been able to get00:19:30
that same power on top with the left00:19:32
hook00:19:34
mainly because he's have to reach at big00:19:35
guys and that's why00:19:38
but he is being more aggressive00:19:42
then we've seen him in some recent00:19:44
fights [Applause]00:19:46
that's where rockman can just take his00:19:48
time and let that right hand go00:19:50
holyfield decides to step in constantly00:19:54
holyfield's got to make certain that00:19:55
this fight goes beyond four rounds and00:19:57
he's laying some good body shots but00:19:58
this guy can hit00:20:00
rocky holyfield sometimes looked slow00:20:03
and lethargic00:20:04
in his three battles with john reeves he00:20:06
has so far looked lively and energetic00:20:08
in round one here tonight good body work00:20:12
by rothman right there that's that00:20:15
terrifying left hook00:20:17
holyfield tries to get involved00:20:28
that is make holyfield step forward00:20:31
if he steps forward trying to jab or00:20:33
throw shots rockman can nail him all00:20:35
night00:20:36
just don't go after evander holyfield00:20:38
step around to the side00:20:42
stiff left hand by rockmon00:20:45
doubling up on the jab there00:20:54
left hook inside00:21:02
one two lands for holyfield rachman came00:21:05
back with a left hand of his own00:21:11
holyfield working to the body and00:21:13
rockmon feeling it00:21:15
as round one comes to a club a hell of a00:21:18
round it was too00:21:31
[Music]00:21:40
you must have your hands in position00:21:42
okay and make those circles you make00:21:44
them fast00:21:45
all right make them play and they're00:21:47
taking two and three not no big shots00:21:50
okay and the jab's gonna lead you all00:21:52
the way00:21:53
okay keep that dad working your home00:21:55
seat baby00:22:03
[Music]00:22:08
i should say compubox estimates in round00:22:10
one holyfield 14 out of 41.00:22:12
rockmon 20 out of 49 both guys had their00:22:14
moments00:22:15
both guys threw the jab in the00:22:16
neighborhood of 20 times and landed it00:22:18
about 25 percent of the time pretty even00:22:20
looking round00:22:21
by the numbers rockman's corner has got00:22:25
him backing up just a little bit00:22:27
which is good evidently he's got a00:22:29
counterpuncher as a trainer a trainer00:22:32
making a counter punch out of him00:22:40
the good thing about this fight for00:22:41
rockman is that holyfield is fighting00:22:43
like a heavyweight00:22:45
his big gift used to be he fought like a00:22:47
light heavyweight00:22:49
in a heavyweight title fight so that his00:22:52
activity level was difficult for some00:22:53
heavyweights to deal with00:22:54
that's right but not any longer as a00:22:56
matter of fact rockman is able to00:22:58
sneak in jabs throw one shot and00:23:01
defender is still in the same00:23:04
[Music]00:23:06
position00:23:09
the counter with that right hand the00:23:11
contrast you described00:23:13
holyfield better as a defender than an00:23:16
attacker00:23:17
was illustrated in the four fights00:23:19
against lewis and tyson00:23:20
holyfield beating tyson twice a man who00:23:23
would come to him and attack00:23:24
twice having difficulty with lewis we00:23:27
sat back and waited for evander to00:23:28
attack him00:23:32
[Applause]00:23:34
great step back sit back clean step back00:23:36
let's go let's go00:23:39
rockman has better turn on some power00:23:40
now because he's not landing any body00:23:42
shots00:23:43
to take away holyfield's explosiveness00:23:45
later on in the fight00:23:57
[Applause]00:23:58
[Music]00:24:03
to the body make him protect his body00:24:04
and then go on top with your right hand00:24:09
not likely to get a chance to get a00:24:11
running start on a right hand here the00:24:12
way he did in knocking lewis out00:24:14
in south africa falling00:24:24
combination by holyfield rockmont again00:24:26
going to the body inside00:24:28
let go all right break go punch in step00:24:30
backwards step back clean00:24:37
whoa good job together rockman's got the00:24:40
better of it00:24:47
success in south africa he out jabbed00:24:49
the jabber in the first few rounds00:24:51
against lewis00:24:52
[Applause]00:24:53
that helped to create the tentativeness00:24:56
in lewis that00:24:57
gave him the chance for the big knockout00:25:00
holyfield will never be tentative00:25:02
he keeps coming00:25:06
hold on hook hold it great break00:25:09
break rockman didn't like that left hook00:25:13
that hurt him that time round two comes00:25:17
to a close00:25:18
next saturday night we remind you and00:25:21
settled in in memphis tennessee00:25:41
the boardwalk center totally refurbished00:25:46
beautiful facility it's not entirely new00:25:49
it's built within the shell of00:25:50
the old atlantic city convention center00:25:52
but a far more glamorous environment00:25:56
than used to be the case and uh big00:25:58
crowd here tonight00:26:00
to watch evander holyfield and what may00:26:02
be the twilight of his career00:26:03
that was a right hand that was a right00:26:05
hand that hurt rockman00:26:07
and he picked evan holdenville up by the00:26:09
legs to conceal it00:26:11
better make sure he gets his head up out00:26:13
of there00:26:14
holyfield connected with the left hook00:26:16
inside too00:26:17
and now rockman starts to back away and00:26:19
holyfield00:26:20
nails him with the right cross holyfield00:26:23
pushing rachman into the corner00:26:29
holyfield trying to peel the years away00:26:34
fighting as aggressively as he is he00:26:38
sustain it00:26:39
one thing about throwing that many00:26:40
punches and you're not the bigger guy as00:26:42
holyfield00:26:43
is you need a rest you got to take a00:26:44
breather for a second and that's when00:26:46
rockman should jump right back on it00:26:48
you got to make him pay as soon as he00:26:50
throws five punches get back on it00:26:52
ever since the middle of career of his00:26:54
career evander holyfield despite his00:26:56
extraordinary conditioning00:26:57
has often fought in spurts 20 30 seconds00:27:00
at a time then back off00:27:01
seemingly needing to regain his energy00:27:04
well he's basically a middleweight built00:27:06
up with fine conditioning and weightlifting and00:27:08
good nutrition00:27:11
some of these guys are naturally big all00:27:13
they are just big their feet are big00:27:15
their heads are big00:27:17
and they when you throw three shots at00:27:19
them you get tired00:27:21
so you're saying the holyfield size is00:27:23
self-manufactured rather than00:27:24
natural but you know everybody should be00:27:27
manufactured like that by themselves oh00:27:28
absolutely00:27:32
and what about the notion that he wasn't00:27:33
really a big heavyweight puncher george00:27:36
well he had he made up for it in a big00:27:38
heart00:27:39
heavyweights no matter how big they are00:27:41
they can't take these big hearts00:27:43
[Applause]00:27:45
come on00:27:51
now in the second minute of the round00:27:52
his pace has slowed and rockmon is back00:27:55
into it yeah holyfield was able to land some00:27:57
punches but it took more out of him than00:27:58
it did right work out of there00:28:00
he finished beating rockman up rockman00:28:02
came pushed him into the corner00:28:04
and started hitting him back00:28:09
good left inside by holyfield digging to00:28:12
the ribcage again00:28:16
[Applause]00:28:22
has a strong body evander holyfield00:28:25
seems determined to test it00:28:26
as no other fighter our next has00:28:30
player too those football players they00:28:32
are accustomed to bumping shoulders with00:28:34
people00:28:35
running into them and they don't get00:28:37
hurt yeah but they're not accustomed to00:28:38
being whacked in the belly in the liver00:28:40
nobody is00:28:44
[Applause]00:28:56
let this guy leave you need to lead son00:28:59
okay00:29:06
later on we'll start loading up you can00:29:09
hold your feet move over here00:29:10
you hit00:29:17
against the limited john ruiz holyfield00:29:20
was smothered00:29:21
and you never or rarely saw him in this00:29:23
kind of00:29:24
attitude in the ring against the more00:29:26
conventional fighter like rafmond00:29:28
a boxer puncher who wants to give and00:29:31
take00:29:32
he can operate and evander holyfield00:29:36
is operating opubox numbers in round00:29:40
three a big round for holyfield in the00:29:42
power punching category00:29:43
holyfield 18 out of 28 in power punches00:29:46
in round three00:29:48
including many body shots early in the00:29:50
round00:29:51
which seemed to take something out of00:29:52
rockmont harold letterman how do you00:29:54
have it through three00:29:55
okay jim was i heard to say about the00:29:58
whole field couldn't pull the trigger00:29:59
man i tell you in the second and the00:30:01
third round amanda holyfield pulled the00:30:03
trigger00:30:04
two rounds to one 29-28 abandoned00:30:06
holifields00:30:07
sensational left hooks good right hands00:30:10
by vandal holy for clean punches00:30:11
that the judges couldn't miss winning00:30:13
rounds two or three brockman the busier00:30:15
guy in the first round00:30:17
yeah every time he's gone out into the00:30:19
fight holyfield his corner is said to00:30:21
him just watch the right hand00:30:23
let's go he believes apparently that the00:30:26
only way he can lose00:30:27
to rapping is with that right hand right00:30:29
and rockman doesn't throw a left hand00:30:32
and right now if he can avoid it it00:30:34
looks like he can have a heck of a night00:30:36
you know earlier this evening00:30:37
i spoke off camera to a guy who fought00:30:40
both of them00:30:41
lennox lewis i said who do you like00:30:43
tonight he said i got a hunch on the old00:30:45
man tonight00:30:46
[Music]00:30:49
he said logic says rachman but something00:30:52
in my heart tells me evander will be big00:30:54
tonight so far lennox is right00:30:59
all right great get back let's be00:31:01
careful guys come on hey talk about00:31:03
evander holyfield watching that right00:31:04
hand but he's not doing much of moving00:31:06
away from it at all as a matter of fact00:31:08
i'm fine00:31:10
most of the time it's just that rockman00:31:12
is not getting off with that right hand00:31:14
evander's so proud of him his ability to00:31:16
roll with that00:31:17
he thinks he can roll from anything but00:31:19
he got nailed with the right hand right00:31:21
there00:31:23
there it is again uppercut lands for00:31:26
holyfield00:31:27
rockman has landed the right hand four00:31:30
times in the rounds00:31:37
rockman has got to know that when00:31:39
holyfield starts leaning in like that he00:31:40
may be hurt00:31:42
don't think he's looking for a leverage00:31:44
vander starts trying to go back to the00:31:45
body00:31:46
the slow rachman's attack upstairs00:31:49
there's another vicious left hook to the00:31:50
rib cage00:31:51
by holyfield this is where rockman00:31:54
should be fighting these guys cannot00:31:56
throw five shots and then do anything else00:32:00
holyfield throws three good shots right00:32:02
gotta take it to rest00:32:05
well there goes the dancing bobbing00:32:07
counter punching and weaving00:32:09
rachman he's gone now as rockman leans00:32:12
in and slugs with evander on the inside00:32:15
i don't know why but he's not opening up00:32:17
i thought the 20000:32:19
and 24 pounds should have been a little00:32:22
better for him to move around and catch00:32:23
holyfield when he backs up00:32:24
maybe the body shots have taken the foot00:32:26
movement away00:32:29
holyfield is throwing round houses all00:32:31
of that benefits rockman because it00:32:33
takes so much out of00:32:36
holyfield busting rockman on the top of00:32:38
the head with the right hand00:32:39
[Applause]00:32:41
rock looking to set up another right00:32:43
cross before the round ends00:32:57
[Music]00:33:03
don't get off your jab you started00:33:05
getting off your jab that round00:33:07
and that's why he is able to take the00:33:08
ropes and so the right hand00:33:11
don't get off your jab keep your left00:33:13
hand high00:33:14
and keep your head moving your best00:33:17
friend00:33:20
it's nothing00:33:32
that was their straight right hand you00:33:35
can see that the way holyfield tries to00:33:37
defend the right hand sometimes00:33:38
he was with his right across the top00:33:42
and just as he did in south africa00:33:46
but with less effect rachman threaded00:33:49
through00:33:50
his defense meanwhile you saw the00:33:52
referee tony orlando00:33:53
and the ring doctor in rockmon's corner00:33:55
to examine what appears to be a knicks00:33:58
over rockman's left eye you heard the00:34:00
discussion and apparently orlando00:34:02
agreeing that the nick must have come from a00:34:04
headbutt rather than a punch00:34:06
not sure how he knows but that seemed to00:34:08
be the determination00:34:09
rockmon complained as soon as he was hit00:34:12
but they ran heads together00:34:13
he complained the referee knew about it00:34:18
rockman has got to get back on his jab00:34:20
and don't worry about the right hand let00:34:21
the right hand come to you00:34:22
[Applause]00:34:24
left hook by holyfield after a right00:34:26
hand by rocks00:34:34
energy levels just about equal in there00:34:37
ten year age gap not showing up so far00:34:40
no man has no right to be fighting this00:34:43
way00:34:51
amanda holyfield's dna and then plant it00:34:54
in a few other heavy ways00:35:02
you go rockman is successful with his00:35:03
jabs00:35:05
holyfield misses with a roundhouse left00:35:22
this is a real courageous and brave00:35:23
fight by rockman being that he was just00:35:25
stopped by another00:35:26
champion not too long ago he's coming00:35:28
back like he's never been out yesterday00:35:30
haseem rahman said00:35:31
i don't just want to win i want to look00:35:34
good in the fight00:35:35
i want it to be a great fight i want00:35:37
people to be interested in what i'm00:35:39
doing in there00:35:40
i don't need to knock him out i just00:35:41
need to make a big impression in this00:35:43
fight00:35:44
he can do that if he whenever evander00:35:46
holyfield lands00:35:47
three shot keeps his hand up he can get00:35:49
him with four afterwards because evander00:35:51
is not in a position to defend himself00:35:53
after he throws four punches hard right00:35:55
hand by rockmont00:35:57
busted holyfield on the chin evander00:35:59
again shows00:36:00
his enormous ability as he's shown00:36:03
throughout his career00:36:04
to take the punch you've always been00:36:06
able to take00:36:15
[Music]00:36:22
for the first time in the there are00:36:24
fight signs that holyfield is slowing00:36:27
down00:36:28
just a bit more and more frequently he00:36:30
throws one punch at a time00:36:32
instead of backing the punch with a00:36:34
combination there's another big right00:36:35
hand00:36:36
another big right hand by the rock00:36:40
[Applause]00:36:44
don't count me out yet he says00:36:54
next saturday night on fate review it's00:36:56
lenox lewis versus mike tyson and along00:36:58
the way to match up for the heavyweight00:36:59
championship00:37:01
june 22 hbo pay-per-view the rematch of00:37:04
2000's fight of the year00:37:05
when eric morales takes on marco antonio00:37:07
barrera in 126 pound showdown00:37:10
and on june 29 on hbo heavyweight00:37:13
vladimir klitschko continues his quest00:37:14
for a possible00:37:15
title shot glitco will do battle with00:37:18
the always tough ray mercer00:37:20
hbo the heart and soul of boxing00:37:26
keeping your right hand hot okay give me00:37:28
that faint00:37:29
give me that faint walking to the left00:37:32
keep the right hand00:37:34
keep bumping don't stand in front of00:37:35
them you don't need to00:37:37
this guy leans on low off the hook after00:37:39
you're let's go00:37:41
one more time the big weapon of rockman00:37:44
a straight right hand00:37:50
numbers in round five both fighters00:37:52
threw fewer than 40 punches the base00:37:54
begins to slow just a little bit00:37:55
holyfield landing 15 rockmon landing 16.00:37:59
very even round harold letterman scoring00:38:02
the fight00:38:03
barely even so far round six of a00:38:05
schedule 12.00:38:06
[Applause]00:38:08
holyfield has got to make sure if he's00:38:10
going to throw a right hand he better00:38:11
come back with a left hook because00:38:13
if he stays out there this guy will beat00:38:15
him looking right big right hand by00:38:17
holyfield00:38:18
sets up two left including an uppercut00:38:20
that knocks rock bond back00:38:22
holyfield sensing the moment00:38:25
another big left hook upstairs not yet00:38:28
punching back00:38:29
now the rock starts to throw okay00:38:33
now rockman has got to start throwing00:38:35
punches after holyfield throws five00:38:37
shots he's no good00:38:40
that's why you see him holding right now00:38:42
rockman has got to start throwing shots00:38:46
[Applause]00:38:48
well said george holyfield taking one of00:38:50
those breathers now00:38:52
after the big offensive rally this is00:38:55
rachman's chance to come right back00:38:57
at him but rock00:39:02
you don't get many moments in these big00:39:04
fights like this when you got punches00:39:06
you got to take advantage of them while00:39:07
they're there00:39:12
and if you've watched the vander00:39:13
holyfield at all over these past eight00:39:15
years00:39:16
you know there's usually a low after the00:39:18
storm00:39:19
that's your opportunity00:39:21
[Applause]00:39:25
now he doesn't even know he's not even00:39:26
aware that he's hurting00:39:29
he had a big smile on his face just00:39:32
after he landed that00:39:35
i got your old guy now go back to your00:39:37
jab if you're a rock one just keep the00:39:39
jab going he always gets the best00:39:41
of the jabs00:39:44
step back step back gentlemen watch your00:39:46
heads00:39:53
they trade jabs there and holyfield out00:39:55
jabs rockmon 2-100:39:59
well that referee is going to have a lot00:40:01
of work on his hand tonight00:40:05
rockman is doing the counter-punching00:40:07
[Music]00:40:08
now00:40:15
[Music]00:40:23
two one right cross00:40:28
as george pointed out at the top of the00:40:29
show at the beginning of the fight i00:40:32
should say00:40:33
rachman doesn't do much with the left00:40:34
hook oh if you're gonna00:40:36
hold the field you just stay around on00:40:38
the left side stay around on that left00:40:40
side00:40:42
if he stays on rockman's left arm he's00:40:44
just out of harm's way all night00:40:51
[Applause]00:41:06
don't give the round away in the last 2000:41:08
seconds00:41:09
don't go don't don't don't stop00:41:13
don't get passive the last 20 seconds00:41:16
don't do that you want to hustle that00:41:18
last 20 seconds you understand00:41:22
when you hit it one two like you did hit00:41:24
it with three more punches right there00:41:26
try it that's right very good bro hey y'all00:41:28
dude check that00:41:32
out00:41:42
holyfield did some serious business00:41:46
and it carries him through the round and00:41:49
earned him the 10-9 how even could this00:41:53
fight be00:41:54
compubox numbers in the sixth they both00:41:57
landed 19 punches00:41:58
they both threw right about 40.00:42:00
holyfield 39 rockmon 40.00:42:02
crowd oohs and daws again harold how do00:42:04
you have it through six00:42:05
okay jim i agree i got it all leaving 5700:42:08
5700:42:09
three rounds a piece passing ragbond00:42:11
came back and you know he rides a van00:42:13
the whole00:42:14
field across the ring he used to do that00:42:15
very early in his career he's real good00:42:17
at it00:42:18
just like george foreman said he leads00:42:19
that shoulder into you00:42:21
and watching with the free hand amanda00:42:23
holyfield can't you know can't ride rock00:42:25
round across the ring because rock runs00:42:26
stronger00:42:27
but in round six event i think stole it00:42:29
with that early rally00:42:30
so three rounds a piece i have the same00:42:33
score00:42:34
what i can understand is rockman is so00:42:36
successful with his left jab00:42:38
and he hardly throws it now these jabs00:42:41
he can't miss00:42:44
[Applause]00:42:47
maybe he doesn't want to get hit by that00:42:48
right hand george00:42:51
no he's in no harm as long as he's00:42:52
throwing that left jab00:42:54
nothing is going to happen to him and00:42:55
you heard rockband's corner00:42:57
echoing george foreman saying don't let00:43:00
him get around on your left side00:43:02
[Music]00:43:03
hearts pointing out as he has that if00:43:05
foreman is on rachman's left side he's00:43:07
safe00:43:08
boxing doesn't use the left hole of00:43:11
holyfield should be good to stay to the00:43:13
left but evidently he has problem moving00:43:15
to00:43:16
to his right holyfield does he doesn't00:43:18
like to do it if you move to his left he00:43:20
doesn't have problems he can't see you00:43:24
well00:43:33
more of a high tackle than anything else00:43:36
although rock did land an overhand right00:43:41
[Applause]00:43:54
left to the body left hook upstairs00:43:57
holyfield trying to attack00:43:58
and seal the deal comes back00:44:03
now rockman has got a port on this is00:44:06
his time to pour it on00:44:09
look like a big swelling on rockman's00:44:11
head00:44:12
there is a huge dot on rockman's head00:44:14
above his left eye00:44:16
that's what the doctors were getting00:44:17
ready to look at a couple rounds ago00:44:19
obviously00:44:20
that's what came from00:44:21
[Applause]00:44:25
can you imagine holyfield has him up00:44:27
against the ropes throwing a lot of shot00:44:28
snaps holyfield00:44:30
holding on that's what you want make him00:44:32
throw those shots00:44:33
all right come on flanders so you think00:44:36
the lump on rockman's head came from00:44:37
another butt yeah00:44:38
they've been bumping heads all night i00:44:40
can00:44:42
how distracting is it to rock mine to00:44:44
have something like this well this is00:44:45
his moment of truth he can't even let00:44:46
anything distract him now he's got to go00:44:48
for it yeah he's feeling it00:44:50
he's feeling it you see him rubbing it00:44:51
with the glove and holyfield hits it00:44:53
with the right hand that's about as00:44:55
nasty00:44:56
as i've ever seen above00:44:59
a fighter's eye almost on the forehead00:45:03
there it is you can work with that00:45:05
though if you're a good corner man you00:45:06
can work with that miguel diaz00:45:08
that's about as good a corner man as00:45:09
you'll find right there working you can00:45:10
work with that because there's no chance00:45:12
to blow your nose but00:45:14
that thing is moving up there00:45:29
you push it down00:45:33
[Music]00:45:37
let's see where they butted well there00:45:39
are two fighters fighting at close00:45:41
quarters coming in at each other00:45:44
bad ears there it is right on the spot00:45:47
yep holyfield is a rough00:45:51
fighter not a dirty fighter when you00:45:54
fight him at close quarters00:45:56
get ready almost anything goes00:46:02
well various opponents throughout00:46:04
evander's career have complained00:46:06
that he butted but most ringside experts00:46:08
agree if ander doesn't seem to try to00:46:10
foul on purpose it's just the way he00:46:12
fights he's there00:46:13
he's coming if you go inside with him00:46:15
it's going to be rough00:46:16
let's keep our eye on it and see if00:46:18
that's true00:46:28
[Applause]00:46:41
and the 39 year old fighter is trying to00:46:44
take the 29 year old to the woodshed what was00:46:47
holding on for dear life00:46:48
yup the old lion sees a wounded00:46:51
creature in front of him and that seems00:46:54
to have energized him00:46:56
well remember this happened to rockman00:46:58
in africa lewis thought he had him hurt00:47:01
played around with him and he ran into00:47:02
that magic right hand00:47:06
but evander's not just waiting for one00:47:07
big punch the way lewis did in south00:47:09
africa00:47:10
he's gone he's continually throwing00:47:12
shots00:47:14
and he's not giving rachman any room to00:47:17
do the things that rock does best00:47:19
jab throw the right hand that knot is00:47:22
amazing00:47:24
but it doesn't seem to be bothering00:47:26
[Applause]00:47:27
yeah you can feel it on your head you00:47:30
get those things like that00:47:31
it irritates you good that is one of the00:47:34
most grotesque things i've ever seen00:47:38
[Applause]00:47:43
what is the danger of that george can00:47:45
you tell00:47:46
yeah i think maybe that got cracked00:47:50
bones up00:47:58
that thing is going to go all the way00:48:00
down to his eyes he's much easier it's a00:48:02
collection of blood under there okay00:48:03
right we're not gonna talk dangerous00:48:09
[Applause]00:48:17
the doctor said to rockmon it's not00:48:20
dangerous but if you can't see the fight00:48:22
stop it and you're going to go to the00:48:23
scorecard00:48:24
okay yeah okay okay00:48:28
we're going to go to the scorecards00:48:31
right00:48:32
the jersey state athletic commission00:48:33
chairman larry hazard giving the00:48:35
instructions to referee tony orlando00:48:37
orlando makes the signal there the fight00:48:40
is going to be stopped right here00:48:41
they'll go to the scorecards and00:48:43
determine the winner00:48:45
the doctor00:48:49
the doctor said to rachman00:48:52
the bump isn't dangerous but if you00:48:55
can't see the fight should stop and rachman said00:48:59
something to the effect that it was00:49:01
affecting his eyesight00:49:03
and that's why they stopped the fight00:49:05
harold letterman your take on this00:49:06
okay jim i gotta tell you what may00:49:08
determine this fight now this is a guess00:49:10
but i think it's an educated guess when00:49:12
you stop a fight00:49:14
in the middle of the round you have to00:49:16
score a round in which the fight00:49:18
is stopped now obviously a vanda00:49:21
holderfield wins00:49:22
round eight ten to nine this might be a00:49:25
big factor in this thing i mean i've got00:49:27
it right now00:49:28
uh five rounds to three in favor of00:49:30
holifield00:49:31
i mean because of the fact that he won00:49:33
that eighth round ratmon did nothing but00:49:35
but protect the uh00:49:37
the lump in the eighth round now as far00:49:39
as the quantum goes beagle diaz was00:49:41
using an ensure when you get a lump like00:49:42
that you could have an ice bag ready just00:49:44
like he has on it right now00:49:46
you got to have a big ice big but00:49:47
between round seven and eight he used00:49:49
the end slow00:49:50
wrong way to treat that george00:49:53
you're satisfied they're doing exactly00:49:55
the right thing with this because00:49:56
exactly the right thing i think this is more00:49:58
than fair go to the scorecards this guy00:50:00
cannot continue00:50:01
it was an accidental hit but this is00:50:04
going to be a fair decision00:50:05
here's the butt once again that's the00:50:07
clash of heads00:50:08
which produced the swelling that's the00:50:10
second one you can see the swelling00:50:12
begin00:50:13
immediately after that clash of heads i00:50:16
mean the swelling has already begun00:50:18
within seconds there after the clash of00:50:20
heads you saw in that replay and yes00:50:22
you're right george00:50:23
that was the second one that was not the00:50:24
one which occasionally00:50:27
first visit over to rockmon's corner a00:50:29
little bit earlier there's got to be00:50:30
something00:50:31
seriously wrong with that eye to have00:50:32
that kind of swelling00:50:35
i saw that in a fight between randall00:50:38
bailey and daenery julio in miami two00:50:40
years ago on the undercard of felix00:50:42
trinidad against mama dutyam00:50:44
and later i had a chance to ask bailey00:50:45
how much it bothered him and he said you00:50:47
know i wasn't really all that conscious of it00:50:50
during the fight he said when i got to00:50:52
the locker room afterward i couldn't00:50:53
believe it because i looked00:50:54
you know misshapen as though my face had00:50:56
completely changed00:50:57
yeah you don't have a mirror when you're00:50:59
out there in the ring so you just have00:51:01
to guess yeah00:51:02
rock has no way of knowing exactly how00:51:04
that feels but he's been touching it00:51:06
with his gloves but of course00:51:07
he can't feel anything through his00:51:08
gloves00:51:13
meanwhile they're totalling up the00:51:14
scorecards here00:51:16
to see if evander holyfield00:51:20
has gotten a huge and rejuvenating win00:51:22
in his career albeit00:51:23
the impact of the win may be diminished00:51:25
by the circumstances under which he gets00:51:27
it right george00:51:28
that's right and that's good that they00:51:29
got a similar promoter that means a00:51:31
rematch it was a good fight it deserves a00:51:33
rematch it was a good fight it was a00:51:35
great matchup00:51:36
that was bringing out terrific stuff00:51:38
from both fighters do or die each00:51:40
fighter00:51:41
had to produce tonight or he's out of00:51:42
the picture maybe the scorecards will be00:51:44
even00:51:45
that wouldn't hurt anything either00:51:50
agreeing don turner above us00:51:52
[Music]00:51:55
and uh00:51:58
turner's probably smiling because of the00:52:00
performance of his fighter00:52:02
okay guys00:52:05
[Applause]00:52:06
who looked like a lively young colt in00:52:08
there much of the time00:52:09
oh yeah he was fighting like a big super00:52:11
heavyweight not fighting like a little00:52:13
light heavyweight00:52:14
without any weight he's like he settled00:52:16
into this thing huh yeah00:52:18
i guess he's saying look i'm not going00:52:19
to lose weight i'm not going down on my00:52:20
heavy weight00:52:22
[Music]00:52:24
216 pounds and looking like a sleek00:52:28
customized roadster and tonight with00:52:32
some new gas in the tank00:52:35
marching about the head from the00:52:37
beginning that was one of our concerns00:52:39
from the beginning00:52:42
one question rachmine will have to00:52:44
answer for himself and for others after00:52:46
the fight why did he agree to fight evander00:52:48
holyfield in close quarters00:52:50
rather than to stay outside box him and00:52:52
use his jab did he have a choice george00:52:54
i think that he was doing the right kind00:52:56
of fight this bump just kind of messed00:52:57
things up to hit but00:52:58
this guy was able to withstand00:53:00
holyfield's combinations00:53:02
and then come back but later on i mean00:53:04
the hit but00:53:05
you mix that into get that into the mix00:53:06
and then things don't go well00:53:08
well tyson in particular was one fighter00:53:10
who complained that holyfield but00:53:13
have you ever seen it intentionally well00:53:15
you seem to go to the same spot all the00:53:17
time [Laughter]00:53:19
let's go to jimmy lennon jr to see what00:53:21
the official scorecard said00:53:26
ladies and gentlemen this bout has been00:53:28
stopped at one minute00:53:30
40 seconds in round number eight due to00:53:33
an accidental headbutt our physician at00:53:36
ringside00:53:37
ruling that rock bond suffering from a00:53:40
severe hematoma00:53:42
is unable to continue therefore we go to00:53:44
the scorecards00:53:46
judge at ringside steve weisfeld scores00:53:49
about 6900:53:50
to 64 in favor of evander00:53:54
holyfield judge at ringside00:53:57
melvina lathan scores about 6700:54:00
to 66 in favor of haseem00:54:03
rahman judge ringside00:54:07
john stewart scores about 6900:54:10
to 64 in favor of the technical decision00:54:15
winner evander00:54:24
letterman you said they had to score the00:54:26
eighth round00:54:27
you have to score a partial round they00:54:30
were entirely wrong00:54:31
now listen to me if you score if you've00:54:34
got knock a guy down00:54:35
15 times or something like that in the00:54:37
eighth round you've got to get credit00:54:38
for those knockdowns you must00:54:40
score the partial round period and i00:54:43
know those rules inside now i would00:54:45
question00:54:46
commissioner larry has it about the00:54:47
eighth round however it's a moot point00:54:49
isn't it00:54:50
because holyfield would have won the00:54:51
eighth by all logic00:54:53
and the decision would have remained the00:54:54
same correct absolutely correct00:54:59
harold levin holyfield winner00:55:02
and they're the judge's scorecards00:55:03
melvina lathan with rockman on top00:55:06
stewart and weisfeld both with holyfield00:55:08
on top00:55:09
even if all three judges were to have00:55:10
scored the eighth round for rachmann00:55:12
it would still be a holyfield victory by00:55:15
majority decision or by split decision i00:55:18
should say00:55:21
split technical decision to be totally00:55:24
accurate about it00:55:25
let's go to larry merchant standing by00:55:28
with the man who has now00:55:29
taken the bitter into this one i seem00:55:31
rachman all right thank you very much00:55:34
jim rock00:55:37
the doctor said to you at the end you00:55:39
could continue if it doesn't interfere00:55:41
with your eyesight00:55:43
how was it interfering with your site00:55:45
every time he would jab me i thought i00:55:47
saw the jack coming one way and it hit00:55:48
me somewhere else00:55:49
i know he ain't had that much movement00:55:51
on his jack so when i went to block the00:55:53
jab i was way way off i couldn't really00:55:55
see it coming00:55:56
and i mean he bought me from round one00:56:00
what did you say i'm sorry i didn't hear00:56:02
you he was head butting me from round00:56:04
one all right but what do you recall about00:56:07
the headbutt00:56:09
that put that knot on00:56:12
above your left eye i think i i pointed00:56:15
right out to the um referee when he did00:56:17
it he just came in and lunged him with00:56:18
his head00:56:19
every time i would throw a right hand00:56:20
he'd um drop his level00:56:22
and rush me with his forehead i mean you00:56:25
know that's that's just part of it00:56:26
that's just another weapon he has you00:56:28
know i'm fighting against two hands a head00:56:30
and an elbow let's let's take a look at00:56:32
the headbutt i'm sorry we don't have a00:56:34
monitor here we'll try to get a monitor00:56:36
so that you can see it00:56:37
and describe it tell us about the fight00:56:40
up until that time was he more00:56:41
active than you anticipated no i thought00:56:45
he was going to be acting for the first00:56:46
you know for the first half of the fight00:56:49
and then i thought he would slow down00:56:50
because i think he was going to come out00:56:51
as though he thought i got i mean though00:56:53
he know i got stopped in my last fight00:56:55
i thought he would come out and try to00:56:56
end it early but the fight is 12 rounds00:56:58
i know00:56:59
you know i was gonna have to pick the00:57:00
pace up in the later round and go for00:57:02
the knockout00:57:03
but uh you were hitting him with your00:57:05
right hand00:57:07
weren't you yeah i felt like i was going00:57:09
to start hitting him more and more with00:57:10
the right hand00:57:11
because sometimes i would throw it00:57:12
sometimes i wouldn't so i ain't just00:57:13
wanting to catch a beat on it00:57:15
and then i would just start picking up00:57:16
picking up picking up at the last round00:57:18
all right you said before the fight if00:57:20
you lost this you didn't see00:57:22
how you could remain in contention but00:57:23
you fought a good fight00:57:25
do you still feel that you can go out of00:57:27
your career on a fight like this00:57:29
definitely i don't feel like holyfield00:57:31
beat me i don't feel like you know00:57:32
it was it was a fair fight and i don't00:57:34
think it was a official fight00:57:36
you know uh i think the fight no i so00:57:39
he'll be back00:57:40
i mean if i could be back with evan i'd00:57:41
like to set the record straight00:57:43
uh i'm not sure he's gonna want to fight00:57:45
again but uh if he does you know i just00:57:47
got prepared for the head buzzer well00:57:48
you know how it looks on tape00:57:50
i didn't think he could do as much00:57:51
damage with his head that he really did00:57:53
he must have a metal plate in there or00:57:55
something because00:57:56
i don't remember nobody doing this much00:57:57
damage with a punch00:57:59
thank you very much rox jim back to you00:58:02
all right thank you very much larry rock00:58:04
makes a good point it's conceivable to00:58:05
me at least that00:58:06
holyfield might look around for a chance00:58:08
to get at one of those belts uh quicker00:58:10
than to00:58:11
to go in and have to fight rachman again00:58:12
but rachman deserves a rematch it ought00:58:14
to happen yeah i don't think this fight00:58:16
didn't happen and didn't end the way00:58:17
evander holyfield and00:58:18
rockman should want history to record it00:58:21
it should be a rematch should be in00:58:23
another place they should have a chance to settle it00:58:25
fair and square it wasn't settled right00:58:26
this time00:58:27
from an entertainment standpoint it was00:58:28
shaping up as a much better fight than00:58:30
some of us might have expected it to be00:58:31
i don't think we're going to see many00:58:32
heavyweight fights like this these00:58:34
holyfield were throwing punches like he00:58:35
was 21.00:58:36
he'd get tied but then he'd throw 2100:58:38
more00:58:40
larry stands by now with 39 year old00:58:43
winner evander holyfield thank you jim00:58:45
congratulations savander i guess you're00:58:48
not going into retirement00:58:50
well you know either way the decision00:58:51
went i wasn't going every time00:58:53
uh you know like i said my goal is to be00:58:55
honest with you every champion of the00:58:56
world and you know patience is key to being00:58:59
successful00:59:00
when you he said you were butting him00:59:02
from the beginning of the fight00:59:04
but was there a particularly hard00:59:06
collision of heads00:59:08
that raised that knot on his head well00:59:11
no no i don't think so i was hitting it00:59:12
with00:59:13
you know every right hand i threw i00:59:14
would hit him across the temple with it00:59:16
because00:59:17
he wasn't able to get his hands up and00:59:19
you know he he actually lead in with his00:59:21
head00:59:22
what i do i put my head on the chest00:59:24
where he i can put it on that side00:59:25
either that side00:59:26
and so this whole thing when he get00:59:28
ready to punch hard he lead with his00:59:29
head00:59:30
and you know it's not that i will force00:59:32
my here because if i force00:59:33
i will move my head if you you look i00:59:35
put my head on the left i put on the00:59:37
right to keep him from hitting my head00:59:39
all right we're going to take a look at00:59:40
that particular butt00:59:42
because it raised about the ugliest00:59:44
night on the head that i ever saw00:59:46
all right let's go to the monitor00:59:49
describe what you see00:59:50
right you know i thought right here i00:59:52
hit him with the short left hook and00:59:53
another right00:59:54
and see that is where we we did hit here00:59:56
there and but00:59:58
but i'm i'm hitting it with shots anyway01:00:01
and i hit him right01:00:02
on it you know so you're saying that yes01:00:04
yes it was01:00:05
that shot was a headbutt you know you01:00:07
can see as clear as there ain't no sense01:00:09
yeah but but you aggravated a little bit01:00:11
with your punching well01:00:12
you know i was hitting with them shots01:00:13
each and every time you know uh uh a lot01:00:15
of times people don't realize that01:00:17
when two fighters come to fight and they01:00:19
stand in there you know01:00:21
you you made a very interesting01:00:23
observation before this fight to us01:00:25
evander in which you said in the old01:00:27
days you just go out and fight you01:00:29
weren't worried about anything01:00:30
but lately you were sort of taking guys01:00:32
to school and01:00:33
trying to be so perfect that maybe that01:00:36
wasn't such a good idea to be that01:00:37
perfect anymore01:00:39
and so it seemed that you fought with a01:00:40
little bit more of the old abandoned01:00:42
tonight01:00:43
is that accurate well well you know01:00:45
today you know01:00:46
he he put himself in a position where i01:00:48
can hit him with shots because01:00:49
he sworn such a hard shot he's all bound01:00:51
to each and every time he swing01:00:53
so he eases the combination go to the01:00:55
body and heads like that you know01:00:56
which you know i you know i felt very01:00:58
comfortable and i was able to get my01:01:00
hands off and i was01:01:01
able to bring the joy back into the game01:01:03
of box instead of just trying well i got01:01:05
to knock the guy out with one big shot01:01:07
i realized combination shots and01:01:08
eventually to get him so because01:01:10
basically for a lot of the fight you two01:01:12
guys are just standing within arm's01:01:14
length01:01:15
you were able to practice what you do01:01:17
best well you see what01:01:19
that's what happened with guys that01:01:20
don't have the experience they cannot01:01:22
box you01:01:23
then once they find yourself getting01:01:24
inside then they find it they can't01:01:25
outslug you so01:01:26
they're in trouble either either either01:01:28
thing that they do did any of his01:01:30
punches01:01:31
daze you hurt you well no no he's those01:01:34
wrong shots but the01:01:35
ultimate thing is to get away from the01:01:37
big shots and so i know that he hit hard01:01:39
but you know it's not for me to stand01:01:40
there you know degrade him what does01:01:42
this fight01:01:44
mean to you to be able to fight in this01:01:45
fashion01:01:47
uh to to tell all of the naysayers once01:01:50
again01:01:51
here i am i had you where i wanted you01:01:53
and i proved you wrong again01:01:55
well you know what you're just you know01:01:57
like like the record that i came01:01:58
out don't say what god won't do you know01:02:00
i trust in the lord you know my health01:02:02
to strengthen01:02:03
and i'm willing to work harder you know01:02:05
a lot of people look at it just just01:02:06
naturally i work harder than01:02:08
the young guys and the older guys and01:02:10
stuff and i approach my crowd all right01:02:12
what do you think will be next do you01:02:14
want to challenge01:02:15
the winner of the johnson01:02:19
louise fight or would you rather if it01:02:22
the01:02:23
opportunity presents itself to fight01:02:26
bird for another title do you care how it01:02:28
falls well you know of course you know01:02:30
i'd rather fight01:02:31
i'd rather fight the winner of linux and01:02:34
tyson if that01:02:35
if that don't happen then you know uh we01:02:37
put the wba tight out i'd rather01:02:39
fight uh that fight you know i you know01:02:42
the bird the bird style just01:02:43
ain't the style that you know i would01:02:44
like to compete against not because01:02:46
you know i don't feel that i can just i01:02:48
just feel that it will be01:02:49
a very taxing fight because you know his01:02:52
fighting style01:02:53
thank you very much amanda01:02:54
congratulations one more time01:02:57
jim all right thank you larry stick with01:02:59
us still to come a conversation with01:03:01
lennox lewis as he looks ahead to next01:03:02
week final compubox numbers from this01:03:04
one01:03:05
vander holyfield landing 11 more punches01:03:08
rachman throwing 16 more they both land01:03:11
at a01:03:12
fairly high connect percentage those01:03:13
stats pretty even01:03:15
given that compubox as you know is01:03:17
necessarily01:03:19
an estimate rather than an exact count01:03:22
power punches holyfield landing 31 more01:03:26
and throwing 30 more than rachman as the01:03:29
fight was mostly01:03:30
fought at holyfield's preferred range01:03:32
rather than the one at which we thought01:03:34
at least01:03:35
that rachmann might have had a better01:03:37
chance to outbox01:03:38
evander earlier this evening we invited01:03:41
all of you to contact our hbo boxing01:03:43
website01:03:44
and to give us your feelings on what01:03:46
would be the outcome of next saturday01:03:48
night's lewis tyson fight01:03:49
26 percent of you louis ko 2601:03:52
lewis by disqualification even01:03:55
interesting01:03:56
21 louis by decision all indulge 7301:04:00
pick lewis 16 tyson ko01:04:03
11 pick a draw which is kind of01:04:05
fascinating because mike tyson01:04:07
hasn't gone 12 rounds in a fight since01:04:09
the summer of 199101:04:11
but a lot of you are paying attention to01:04:12
that because nobody01:04:14
nobody voted for mike tyson to win a01:04:17
decision over lennox lewis so that much i guess01:04:20
almost everybody can agree upon but01:04:21
that's01:04:22
part of the excitement of the fight01:04:23
right the suspense every moment01:04:26
as to whether lewis's chin is going to01:04:27
give way to one of tyson's01:04:29
shots well earlier this evening i had a01:04:31
chance to talk to lennox lewis01:04:33
seven days removed from the biggest date01:04:35
in his boxing career01:04:36
and just a couple days after his arrival01:04:38
in memphis01:04:39
here's how he looked as he talked about01:04:42
his upcoming01:04:43
big nightDescription:
Evander Holyfield (38-5-2) - Hasim Rahman (35-3-0). 45 fight of Holyfield in his career. (Jun 1, 2002)
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