{"id":10095,"date":"2011-05-04T09:46:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T13:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=10095"},"modified":"2011-05-04T09:46:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T13:46:24","slug":"evander-holyfield-brian-nielsen-may-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=10095","title":{"rendered":"Evander Holyfield &#8211; Brian Nielsen May 7th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=10095\" href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=10095\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5933\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"holyfieldheader\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/holyfieldheader1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>48-year-old former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield (43-10-2, 28 KOs) is in Copenhagen, Denmark for Saturday\u2019s clash with 46-year-old Brian Nielsen (64-2, 43 KOs), who is returning to the ring after a nine year retirement. \u201cI\u2019m full of respect for Brian Nielsen. He looks strong-willed, and his form is quite obviously improved since I saw him in December for the first time,\u201d Holyfield wrote in the Ekstra Bladet. \u201cWith that said, he\u2019ll have problems when we first meet up between the ropes. It\u2019s me who is \u2018The Real Deal,\u2019 and I\u2019m here in this country with a mission to be completed Saturday night. The mission is very simple: I will defeat Nielsen fair and square.\u201d As for hyping the fight during fight week, Holyfield penned, \u201cI\u2019ve been involved in some of the biggest fights in boxing history.<!--more--> Before every one I\u2019ve repeatedly been asked questions to get me to say that I\u2019ll destroy my opponent, that I\u2019ll eat him alive, that sort of thing, but that\u2019s not me at all. I have never spoken ill of a single opponent. I\u2019m not a bad man and I will under no circumstances speak condescendingly about my opponent using that kind of language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\">Advertise Now On RSR<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=13198\">Purchase Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1\">Order the Horror Thriller FAMILY SECRET Now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>48-year-old former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield (43-10-2, 28 KOs) is in Copenhagen, Denmark for Saturday\u2019s clash with 46-year-old Brian Nielsen (64-2, 43 KOs), who is returning to the ring after a nine year retirement. \u201cI\u2019m full of respect for Brian Nielsen. He looks strong-willed, and his form is quite obviously improved since I saw him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105,245],"class_list":["post-10095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-evander-holyfield"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10095"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}