Evander Holyfield to fight Mitt Romney in charity boxing match
Boxing legend Evander Holyfield, 52, hasn’t fought since a victory over Brian Nielsen in 2011, but he'll climb back into the ring on May 15 in Salt Lake City. His opponent? None other than former 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
It's for charity, of course.
“We’ll see,” said Holyfield in an interview with Fox Business Insider when asked if he would actually hit the 68-year-old politician.
“I just want him to stop hiding ’cause he’s gonna get the whooping,” continued Holyfield. “You can’t run and hide from me.”
The ‘match’ and subsequent fund raiser is for Charity Vision, a Salt Lake City organization that provides surgeries and other services to poverty-stricken people with vision problems around the world.
So, it is highly unlikely that any blood will be shed when “Rumbling” Romney meets “Real Deal” Holyfield later this summer.
We'll dole out boxes of tissues for all the left-leaning readers out there.
Romney, for his part, is seemingly well aware of the dangers facing him – even if it's only sparring against the former heavyweight champion of the world.
“It will either be a very short fight, or I will be knocked unconscious,” Romney said in an interview with the Salt Lake Tribune. “It won’t be much of a fight. We’ll both suit up and get in the ring and spar around a little bit.”
There will be other fights, with real professionals, on the May 15 fight card at the Rail Event Center in Salt Lake City, so all the pressure won’t solely fall on the two aging sluggers to put on a show.
Then again, when a boxer is pitted against a politician, the show kind of takes care of itself, doesn’t it?
