SHOCKER: Holyfield pulls out of Botha fight
In the most stunning boxing news we're likely to hear in 2010, Evander Holyfield has "pulled out" of his "scheduled" February fight with Francois Botha in Uganda, citing "money" as an "issue."
Joey Abell will take Holyfield's place, and linked article author Per Ake Persson calls it "not a bad matchup." I respectfully disagree.
Botha-Holyfield was supposed to take place on January 16. I said back in November:
Chances are this fight never happens. You can almost set your watch to Evander scheduling a fight in a foreign country and then it never happening, so don't expect this one to actually take place either.
Then on New Year's eve, ESPN for some reason felt the need to legitimize this never-on farce, running an announcement of the "fight" on their crawl:
Why ESPN thought this news was relevant enough to be mentioned when something like Mosley-Berto gets roughly the same ESPN coverage is beyond me, but I'd almost appreciate it if they didn't lend crap fights like this any credibility. In some ways, they legitimized this fight merely by mentioning it. But I still think it won't actually happen.
I mean, it's like, do I get a prize for this? I have correctly predicted the least predictable thing you could ever think of, at least in boxing. Holyfield, 47, will not be fighting Botha, 41, in Uganda. I'm like the new Criswell.
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Bile-provoking
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant"
---Vernon Forrest 2006
by The Midnight Rambler on Jan 26, 2010 6:33 PM EST reply actions
No prize but kudos and props. As for Joey Abell, Good God! If he doesn’t clock Botha, he needs to leave the scene.
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant"
---Vernon Forrest 2006
by The Midnight Rambler on Jan 26, 2010 6:55 PM EST reply actions
Win or lose Abell can always go back to Minnesota and make bits of cash to smoke some poor fool like Larry White or Derek Amos.
Bad Left Hook
"To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day..."
by Scott Christ on Jan 26, 2010 7:00 PM EST up reply actions
Or Raphael Butler with a sucker punch after the bell. Unreal! I have seen Joey fight live at the Blue Horizon. Very unpredictable, but not fan-unfirendly.
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant"
---Vernon Forrest 2006
by The Midnight Rambler on Jan 26, 2010 7:07 PM EST reply actions
Very good
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant"
---Vernon Forrest 2006
by The Midnight Rambler on Jan 26, 2010 8:53 PM EST up reply actions

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