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47-year-old Holyfield stops Botha in 8th

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LAS VEGAS (AP)

Former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield is using George Foreman’s comeback more than 15 years ago as inspiration after notching his latest victory Saturday.

The 47-year-old Holyfield (43-10-2, 28 KOs) won by TKO against 41-year-old Frans Botha with 2:05 left in the eighth round. Holyfield had knocked down the South African 31 seconds earlier with a right to the chin.

Botha (47-5-3) beat refree Russell Mora’s count, but Mora then stopped the fight with the South African backed into a corner, giving Holyfield the lightly regarded World Boxing Federaton heavyweight title.

“I’m going to be the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world,” Holyfield said.

Two judges, Jerry Roth and Glenn Feldman, had Botha ahead 67-66 when the fight was stopped. The other judge, Herb Santee, had it 69-64 for Holyfield.

“I’m happy Botha gave me an opportunity,” Holyfield said. “When people talk about you, it’s who I fought. I fought the best.”

There were only 3,127 people at the Thomas & Mack Center, most rooting for Holyfield in his first fight since Dec. 20, 2008, when he lost a majority decision to Nikolay Valuev.

“George Foreman said, ‘It’s not about my age,”’ Holyfield referred to what the former champ said back in the 1990s. “He became heavyweight champion of the world.”

In the second round, Holyfield briefly lost his balance, stumbling into a corner after a right from Botha with 2:04 left.

“(Holyfield has) got the skills. He’s got the determination,” Botha said. “He landed his shots. He’s a true warrior. I didn’t feel ashamed losing to a great champion like him.”

At the post-fight press conference, it was mentioned Holyfield would like to fight one of the Klitschko brothers, who hold three of the four major heavyweight belts. Wladimir Klitschko holds two titles, while Vitali holds one.

Early on, Botha was warned by the referee twice in the first three rounds for hitting behind the head. Botha also was warned in the first round for a double hit to the head during a clinch.

This was Holyfield’s first fight in Las Vegas since 2003, when he lost to James Toney at Mandalay Bay.

Before Saturday, Holyfield was only 10-6 in Las Vegas, including the infamous ear-biting incident against Mike Tyson in 1997, when he won by disqualification.

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If I Were Tiger Woods…..

….I’d start throwing clubs and arguing with people in the gallery. I’d insult an official, tell a member of the press to f-off, question the honesty of a playing partner, ask for rulings every few minutes and hit the ball into the trees on every other shot all day. People will think I’m coming apart and played out. Then next week I’ll charge out front and take the tournament wire to wire and all those people that counted me out will look like blithering imbeciles.

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CSI:NY: It’s Terrible And Always Has Been…Jesus H.

..the reason it has never been good is because it’s episodic with the same characters which means creating story lines that continue to make the characters interesting while keeping the cases interesting. Forget it. This is impossible for crop of writers currently employed in Hollywood. They haven’t been able to accomplish the aforementioned for 40 years. Gary Sinise or no Gary Sinise, CSI: NY or, really, any of them, rides a shit wave in a shit skiff. Fuck you network TV for the time and the resources that you waste…Oh Wow….

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Some Kraut Midget That Made a Big Splash Two Years Before America Was Sucked Into Another World War Just Kicked…Good Riddance To the Tiny Kraut…

Ding! Dong! Another Munchkin’s gone! Meinhardt Raabe goes off to the real Emerald City. Hello Judy?

April 10, 6:45 PMMargaret grey!

Meinhardt Raabe had only about 13 seconds of uncredited screen time in The Wizard of Oz, but the role of coroner made him a little (Raabe was 3½ feet tall when the movie was made and eventually grew to about 4½ feet) big star.
Now he’s a dead little big star.
Raabe died Friday, April 9, at the age of 94, at Orange Park (Florida) Medical Center.
According to Bob Riegel, the president of the Penney Retirement Community in Penney Farms, Florida, where he Raabe had lived since 1986, Raabe started the day “as usual, enjoying breakfast and being as talkative as ever.” After breakfast he felt sick, called for a nurse and 911 was called.
The coroner thinks it was a heart attack.
We know he didn’t choke on an Oscar Mayer wiener, though Raabe was the mascot of the hot dog empire for nearly 30 years. (He toured America in the Oscar Mayer Wiener mobile . . . and was known as Little Oscar.)
Raabe was one of the 124 Munchkins in the film and one of only nine who had speaking parts. Yes, he was the one who unfurled the certificate stating that the Wicked Witch of the West was dead. And his beard and handlebar mustache was made of dyed yak hair.
And now he’s gone to join Judy, Ray, Jack, Bert, Billie, Margaret and Frank in the real Emerald City.
File this under Weird News: Raabe died six days after the anniversary of the suicide of Clara Blandick, the old pal who play old Auntie Em. Read about her here http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-40332-Dead-Celebrities-Examiner~y2010m4d10-Morbid-Curiosity-Remembering-Clare-Blandick-18801962-Auntie-Em-went-out-an-old-bag-literally
All together now:
As coroner, I must aver
I thoroughly examined her
And she’s not only merely dead
She’s really, most sincerely dead!

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