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Evander Holyfield

1962 - Today

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Evander Holyfield (born October 19, 1962) is an American former professional boxer who competed between 1984 and 2011. He reigned as the undisputed champion in the cruiserweight division in the late 1980s and at heavyweight in the early 1990s, and was the only boxer in history to win the undisputed championship in two weight classes in the "three-belt era", a feat later surpassed by Terence Crawford, Naoya Inoue and Oleksandr Usyk, who became two-weight undisputed champions in the four-belt era. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Evander Holyfield is the 22nd most popular boxer (down from 13th in 2019), the 2,110th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,248th in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Boxer.

Evander Holyfield is most famous for being the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world from 1990 to 1997.

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Among BOXERS

Among boxers, Evander Holyfield ranks 22 out of 496. Before him are Marvelous Marvin Hagler, László Papp, Wladimir Klitschko, Jake LaMotta, Nino Benvenuti, and Jack Dempsey. After him are Primo Carnera, Ingemar Johansson, Floyd Patterson, Larry Holmes, Roberto Durán, and Dick McTaggart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Evander Holyfield ranks 55. Before him are Emilio Estevez, Ally McCoist, Alessandra Mussolini, Matthew Broderick, Dina Boluarte, and Kirk Hammett. After him are Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, François-Henri Pinault, Ales Bialiatski, Bob Odenkirk, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, and Marie Trintignant.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Evander Holyfield ranks 2,110 out of 20,380. Before him are Kirk Hammett (1962), Sonny Bono (1935), Harlow Shapley (1885), La Toya Jackson (1956), Robin Cook (1940), and Stephen Jay Gould (1941). After him are Marcheline Bertrand (1950), Lana Del Rey (1985), Theodore Lyman IV (1874), Bernard Baruch (1870), Adam Driver (1983), and W. Eugene Smith (1918).

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Among BOXERS In United States

Among boxers born in United States, Evander Holyfield ranks 14. Before him are Floyd Mayweather Jr. (1977), Sonny Liston (1932), Rubin Carter (1937), Marvelous Marvin Hagler (1954), Jake LaMotta (1922), and Jack Dempsey (1895). After him are Floyd Patterson (1935), Larry Holmes (1949), Archie Moore (1916), James J. Braddock (1905), Ken Norton (1943), and Jimmy Ellis (1940).

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