Evander Holyfield on Keeping It Fresh in the Ring & His Biggest Career Moment

Evander Holyfield on Keeping It Fresh in the Ring & His Biggest Career Moment
About this video
YH catches up with The Real Deal himself, boxer Evander Holyfield, at Super Bowl XLIX in Phoenix, Arizona, to get his thoughts on the Super Bowl experience, keeping it fresh in the ring, and that long-awaiting Pacquiao-Mayweather bout! He also describes what his end zone celebration would be and reveals what he considers his biggest career highlight!
CHAPTERS
KEY MOMENTS
KEY TOPICS
FULL TRANSCRIPT
Read alongShow ↓
How are you? Good to see you. Thank you. Um, if you could sum up your Super Bowl experience so far in five words, what would they be?
Uh good. Good. There's one. Good. There's two. Good. Three. Great. Four. Super.
Yes, I love it. And on that note, if you had an end zone celebration, what would your style be? Would you be going like big, would you keep it low key? What would what would the Holyfield style?
Uh I'd be low key cause you know, I I think if you make it too big, meaning that your confidence is not great, but when you keep it low and you like you're supposed to do it. Like you're right. When you tip the ball like that, you said this is what I do. It's no big deal, right? And that's that's who they call the real deal.
Yeah. When you used to step in the ring, how did you make sure every time it was a fresh take? It was a new, you know, it was it never got routine.
Well, you know, it's just it it's just it's how I come in the ring. I I pretty much do the same thing over and over. I, you know, come in like being the specter. You go around and show everybody, I'm in shape and I'm I'm fight a great fight and, you know, this is the routine thing that you show the people like, you know, you get what you pay for. Yeah. You got the real deal.
Is the Mayweather Pacquiao thing ever going to happen?
I I think it will. Uh I think both uh individuals want to fight. I think Floyd have done a great job, made a lot of money. He sure has. After all that, now his time to show that he can rise up one more time.
And any prediction if that fight does happen?
What I I I I think this fight is a pick and fight. I I think this is what people really want to see. I don't think people be so excited if they thought if they thought that uh Floyd was going to win or I thought this guy was going to lose. So, it's one of them things where they they don't know. Yeah. And that will make fights like this big and exciting.
Um, for a for a football player, you know, playing in the Super Bowl would be the biggest moment in their career. What was the biggest moment in yours? Do you have a moment that stands out?
Uh just making the Olympic team. Having an opportunity to represent the United States. That's big.
Yeah. Huge, right? Yeah. And last but not least, what could be the best thing that could happen at the Super Bowl? Either halftime, like somebody appearing in a Super Bowl, like what would like rock your world if something happens tomorrow?
Uh, somebody gained 300 yards. You know, I mean, you know, I I I I like offense. I I like them guys to do great, you know, so.
So you're an offensive thinker.
Well, yes. There you go.
Timestamps are approximate — click one to jump the player.
PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Evander Holyfield
Featured guest, boxing legend
- Manny Pacquiao
Discussed as a potential opponent for Floyd Mayweather
- Floyd Mayweather
Discussed as a potential opponent for Manny Pacquiao






