‘I deem the referee shouldn’t quit the fight that fast’: Evander Holyfield hits out at ‘unsightly call’ in Vitor Belfort bout
The declare of 58-year-aged Evander Holyfield’s comeback to the boxing ring after greater than a decade faraway from it turned into the provision of bag 22 situation for some sooner than last weekend’s fight with Vitor Belfort — and in a roundabout contrivance the worries had been proved staunch.
Holyfield turned into a step within the support of 44-year-aged Belfort for the total lot of the transient contest, with Belfort nearly sending the boxing icon by the ropes earlier than a success by TKO in some unspecified time in the future of the vital spherical.
Holyfield, despite the truth that, isn’t chuffed with the stoppage.
“I wasn’t ruin,” Holyfield mentioned after the fight. “The declare is, there wasn’t no shot that ruin me really unsightly. He’s solid and he bought that shot and I turned into off balance. I deem it turned into a unsightly call,” Holyfield added. “I deem the referee shouldn’t quit the fight that fast.”
Holyfield’s addition to the cardboard, which got here after Oscar De La Hoya bowed out of his scheduled bout with Belfort, required the fight being moved to Florida after normal hosts the California Athletic Commission refused to sanction the gradual swap to Holyfield.
For some, those causes had been straight certain within the ring as Holyfield struggled to open any significant offence in opposition to the historical UFC fighter.
And while there turned into bag 22 situation in some quarters that Holyfield is seemingly to be seriously ruin within the conflict, Holyfield says that he escaped unharmed — but that the fight has left a unsightly model in his mouth.
“No, I’m no longer ruin,” Holyfield mentioned. “It’s more or less unhappy. It’s a long way what it is.”
