@ Tommy
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Evander Holyfield wanted an early night. He didn't get it. Coming out very aggressive in the first round, Holyfield chased Bean around the ring, landing crunching punches upstairs and down as the WBA #1 contender looked like he might fade quickly. Bean escaped the first round, as well as the second and third before things started changing.
In the fourth round, Bean's often sloppy barroom brawl punches started landing. Holyfield began to absorb Bean's shots and stopped throwing himself. Looking tired throughout the fourth round, Holyfield barely threw a punch in the fifth and continued taking Bean punches into the seventh and eight rounds. A fighter can get old overnight, and Evander looked all 35 years of his age as he was often listless and uninterested against his awkward challenger. What's more, he looked like a shot fighter not only because he wasn't throwing but because he was being hit with punches that were anything but pretty or technically sound.
Luckily, Holyfield found enough of a second wind to restart his attack by focusing on Bean's bloated midsection and picking his counterpunches well. In the 10th, Holyfield staggered Bean with several punches, and as a wobbly Bean tried to clutch Holyfield, he became tangled in the ropes. At the same moment the referee motioned to stop the action so Bean could get out of the ropes, an already thrown Holyfield uppercut glanced Bean's head and sent him sprawling on his back, eyes closed. Bean beat the count and was able to continue, but the 10-8 round sealed the his fate unless he could knock Holyfield out.
Give Vaughn Bean credit, he tried. In the 11th, and especially the 12th, Bean kept firing and firing, and hitting Holyfield. Evander never looked hurt, but nonetheless continued to take punch after punch without responding. Bean won the final round, but it wasn't enough, as Holyfield posted a wide unanimous points decision.
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http://www.boxingchronicle.com/articles/holyoscar.html
Souverän ist etwas anderes. Und den von Dir so verpönten (weil unangenehmen Quervergleich) mit Vitali verliert Holyfield eindeutig.
@ alter Mann
Îch bin sehr überrascht, daß manche glühenden Klitschkofans angesicht des drohenden Kampfes gegen Lewis schon nahezu verzweifelt Schuldige suchen um einer möglichen Niederlage vorzubauen. Billig, ganz billig.
woraus interpretierst Du das ?