Evander Holyfield shared the ring with both Mike Tyson and George Foreman.
Holyfield took on Foreman in April 1991, defeating ‘Big George’ by unanimous decision to retain his undisputed world heavyweight titles.
After losing his belts, ‘The Real Deal’ then met Tyson in November 1996, winning by 11th round stoppage to win the WBA heavyweight title, before retaining it in the rematch seven months later after ‘Iron Mike’ infamously got disqualified for biting the ear of Holyfield.
Earlier in the 1990s, Tyson and Foreman were linked to a fight with each other, but for one reason or another, it was never able to materialise.
It would have come at a point where ‘Iron Mike’ was in his prime as the undisputed heavyweight champion, having burst onto the scene as a ferocious youngster who knocked out the likes of Larry Holmes and Michael Spinks.
Foreman meanwhile was in the second portion of his career at that stage after returning from a ten-year absence. His prime is considered to have been in the early 1970s, where he became world champion by knocking out Joe Frazier inside two rounds.
Holyfield has now given his prediction to Mail Sport on who would have won if both men were in their prime, and he went with the man he fought on two occasions.
“Mike Tyson.”
‘The Real Deal’ didn’t stop there with his praise of Tyson, after claiming that ‘Iron Mike’ would have also been able to defeat Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua, Deontay Wilder, Joe Frazier, Vitali Klitschko and Wladimir Klitschko.
There was one fight that Holyfield couldn’t pick a winner between though, stating he wouldn’t know who would have won between Tyson and current heavyweight king Oleksandr Usyk.
