Name: JRE MMA Show #80 with Evander Holyfield
Uploaded: 2019-10-08T03:00:00.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #80 with Evander Holyfield' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-10-08. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'JRE MMA Show #80 with Evander Holyfield' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-10-08. Transcript available.

JRE MMA Show #80 with Evander Holyfield

boom and we're live what's up champ how are you oh great how are you doing i'm
great man it's a
pleasure to meet you i've been a fan forever oh good i've seen every single
fight you've ever had
so for me it's uh it's an honor to have you in here man as a giant boxing fan
all the way back
to dwight kawi saw you fight in the olympics saw everything everything man yeah
for real and uh i
understand you you're going to do an exhibition now well yeah i'm preparing for
one um you know
uh you know me going over going over to japan and being able to go over there
and see uh
the tawhon whatever that tsunami tsunami yeah and the point is in the tsunami
going over there and
helping people and i figured why not do an exhibition right so it's like a
benefit for
the tsunami victims yes um you look great you're in great shape still well
thank you you know you
never got out of shape well yeah art of the game yeah it's easy to maintain and
rebuild easier to
maintain and rebuild yeah but now at your age like what was the last time you
had a fight was like
2011 is that what it was yeah 2011. so it's been like eight years which is you
were thinking of
competing like deep into your 50s though well yeah the thing is is that i'm
always trying to stay in
shape but i really didn't want to get hit again right right right like that but
and i said but
exhibition i i could do an exhibition who is the exhibition against i i don't
know yet i i'm thinking
about you know i wanted to be reddit bow because me and him buddies now you can
do it with somebody
your friends with because right they know that they're not going to hit you too
hard if you don't
hit them too hard right so it'll be more of a sparring yes deal yes now how
often are you training
now well you know i'm i'm always training i shadow box i don't i don't i don't
hit the bag but i'm
i'm ready to do it now because i'm actually going to be performing so i i want
to i want to look good
but but it is i don't want to get in a doggy doggy fight right you don't want
to get into a war
right you just want to have like a little exhibition sparring match just a
little
just combinations not hit each other too hard that kind of deal well yeah you
know
we hit we can hit hard to the body right not to hit right right right now at
this stage of your life
you know it's been a while since you competed are you worried that those
competitive juices might get
fired up again and you might want to actually fight again i i know i don't
think i i don't think i
don't ever go back in because i did everything i wanted to do right i feel that
i got as far as i
wanted to get and you know i i'm only four-time heavyweight champion of the
world ever but i am
so i ain't got no reason to be mad with nobody about anything and i i think i
had a great a great
career you had an unbelievable career yes only four-time heavyweight champion
of the world ever i mean
i can remember way back in the day when you were moving up from cruiserweight
to heavyweight you
know and it was one of the rare times where we were watching back in those days
and folks who don't
know it was kind of taboo for boxers to lift weights yeah it was and uh it was
mackie shillstone
that got you ready for that right no no it's no tim hallmark yeah tim hallmark
and mackie shillstone
got uh spinks ready got spinks ready yeah and i came after that and and the
point of coming out to uh
mackie shillstone everybody thought about the weight but uh tim hallmark would
talk about flexibility
all the things you have to do when you lift weights right yeah because
everybody used to think
before that that if you lifted weights it made you stiff yeah yeah and and and
tim was able to
he did everything with me to show me that that's just a myth right right
condition is about you
know heart rate and all this and then you know when you lift weight you just
got to do more right
it seemed like back then the problem was when people would lift weights they
would get sore and then
they would go to the gym and they wouldn't perform as well and so everybody
would say our weights are
making you stiff they didn't allow themselves to get through a full program
with a real strength
and conditioning guy like tim hallmark or mackie shillstone they were the first
guys really to bulk
guys up right it's all about confidence and someone taking to another level you
know and i think that at
at that time people just kind of in this level this is all we know and this is
only far we can go because
you have to work harder yeah if you go if you lift weight you're going to have
to work harder right
brain you know with me i was able to bring a ballet teacher in there i did at
ballet too did you
really uh yeah that's the reason why i was i was able to still be flexible and
being able to be quick
and all that and you know i did all that but i ain't let nobody know i would do
a ballet you know i'd like
to see some video you doing ballet is there any out there no we did not no did
you wear a tutu no no
no no no you know i got stressed a lot i mean you're talking about uh uh miss
kennett that's her name
and so i i kept her to the day and she she ended up slipping breaking her hip
and because she she was
like 70 years old when she was stretching me and had me doing all the splits
and all this but it worked
yeah well you were one of the first like supremely conditioned heavyweight boxers
you know when you'd
see you you were sculpted you know and you would be able to put that output out
for the entire 12 rounds
i mean you had those incredible fights at riddick poe i know you guys are
friends now but god damn did
you guys have some wars yeah we had we had battles man i think the big thing
because you know he kind
of kind of bully you know and he a big guy and he used to always look at me and
say uh a good a good
big guy beat a good little guy anytime and every time we go in and practice i
bust him up because
then but you know i'm four years older than him but he was bigger and but i was
always getting yeah
well you guys had some crazy fights but the craziest one was probably the one
where the guy landed in the
middle of the ring the guy with the parachute with the what was that guy's what
did he call himself the
fan man fan that's right he had a fan that was powering his parachute and he
literally landed in
the ring that was in an outdoor arena in vegas is that what it was right sure
was and it made and
helped the fight up about 30 minutes that was crazy oh yeah because at that
time i had him hurt yes
and like that and it saved him yeah well you had him hurt and then everybody
got cold i mean you cooled
off i mean it almost seems like they should have canceled the fight well you
know it was half of
the fight you know if they cast the fight they were at the pairs again what
there's a picture up there
like look at that what was going through your mind when you saw that guy land
on the ropes like that
well it shocked me and then because when they did the the light started like
this and uh curtis mayfield
had just got paralyzed but same thing with the thing fell down lights fell on
him yeah yeah curtis mayfield
he got paralyzed that way yes oh wow so you thought maybe the lights were about
to fall well yeah and
i was trying to make sure that i could make that quick step get in or get out
right right right yeah yeah
so this guy once you finally realize that it was a guy on a parachute with a
fan behind him how mad were
you well you know i can keep my mind on him i got to keep my mind already both
that's enough
everybody asked me that and i'm like my mind you know you know you have to have
a one track mind is
you're gonna be real good you're gonna be the best you have to have that one
track mind yeah yeah it's
not something you could pay attention to but was it hard to get your mind back
into it after the the
settle and they had to clear the guy out and arrest him and clean the ring out
and everything no i i
stayed focused and my whole thing is that i you know i felt that i i won the
first half right i got
now i got this next half why did it take a half hour to get that guy out of
there you know uh you know
you know ready both wife were there she was praying and she had to leave oh and
all this so
so many things happened because the guy happened to come over vericon and and
and so all these people
they don't beat the poor man in the head i'll knock them out like this i mean
he he got a really
good beating for coming in i hope he did yeah he did yeah is he still in jail
no no no he passed now
oh he's gone yeah oh well oh well i guess that's his legacy well you know you
fucked up your fight
that's his legacy wait wait you're right but i won yes you did yeah i mean look
man you had some
incredible fights but to me um one of my fondest memories is you know who kevin
james is from the
king of queens the tv show me and kevin james were at my house in encino the
night you fought tyson the
first one the first fight when when you dropped tyson i'll never forget it
because back then i mean
we knew that buster douglas had beaten tyson but we kind of almost thought it
was like a fluke
but when you were battering tyson and then you put him down and stopped him i'll
never forget kevin
james jumping off the couch just jumping oh my god we're throwing our arms up
in the air i mean
that was for sure one of the greatest heavyweight championship victories in the
history of the sport
it was just an incredible fight because in a lot of people's eyes tyson was
like this a bad guy he was
like a people thought of him as like a thug you know and you were thought of as
this like really good
guy and many people didn't think that you were going to be able to beat him so
when you didn't just beat
him but you took it to him you took it to him you know like early on the fight
you could tell that you
had decided you were going to push him around and you know once you had stopped
him i mean it was that
was pandemonium in my house everybody was going crazy they couldn't believe it
well yeah i know
everybody you know you know i had you know i'm like you know i'm a christian i
i i but the point
of the point of the matter i work hard i train hard and you know my mama said
ain't too many things
that you do well so son you know which one which one of the sports you're gonna
do because i i was a good
athlete i can i but football and boxing was my two best one but you know i
played basketball i did
baseball i did everything my mama said ain't enough time in a day to be the
best at everything yeah don't
sense you so you got to pick one so when i played when i played football in 10th
grade and they put me
on the bench and i started crying and my mama said you can't quit till the
season is over so i had to
play on that i played play on that game they found and let me play in the
championship game and they
seen how good i was and they asked me was i coming back next year i said no sir
he said why i said my mama said i ain't got to
like this my mama told me you got to bet on yourself or you're going to bet on
the coach
right so in boxing you're betting on yourself right and in teen sport you're
betting on the coach you're
betting on the coach you're betting on the other players and you're betting on
the coach letting
you play right right whereas in boxing they have to let you fight that's right
you may be asking
somebody tag in for you now when did you think that boxing was going to be your
career was it right
after that it's like around 10th grade oh well yeah yeah you know after 10th
grade i realized that you
know it all came down to one one sport yeah that i really do real well and so
that's when i i you
know i just put everything in it well you were part of that incredible olympic
team too i mean so many
great fighters came out of that olympic team right mark breland pernell whitaker
taylor i
can tell you all of them paul gonzalez 106 steve mccurry 112 19 robert shannon
125 milter taylor 132
pennell willaker 139 j