The "White Buffalo" Will Brutalize Evander Holyfield

Unscrewed former heavyweight champion Evander “The Real Deal” Holyfield will challenge WBF titlist Francois “White Buffalo” Botha for his worthless crown January 16 at Kampala’s Nambole Stadium in Uganda.

“I am very much looking forward to going to Uganda and I expect a tough fight against Francois Botha,” said Holyfield, 47, the only boxer to ever win the heavyweight championship on four separate occasions. “I am going to win and I will cherish the WBF world title.”

Holyfield (42-10-2, 27 KOs), also a former cruiserweight champ, has not entered the ring and put his life in jeopardy since he was defeated by the gigantic Nikolai Valuev (50-2, 34 KOs) by a controversial majority decision last December.

Holyfield, who was banned in 2005 by the New York State Athletic Commission from boxing in “The Empire State” because of his diminished skills, is delusional and he maintains that he is still an elite pugilist.

At 41, Botha (47-4-3, 28 KOs) is not exactly the personification of youth himself.

Nevertheless, Botha, a native of South Africa who has also dabbled in kickboxing and mixed martial arts, has never been a physical liability in the ring.

“Expect the fittest, toughest and best ever—and extremely serious—Francois Botha in Uganda in January,” said Botha, who has only lost to supreme boxers Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Wladimir Klitschko and Michael Moorer in his professional career.

“I owe my fans and members of Team Botha the performance of my life. I intend to make good on that.”

Inexplicably, organizers of this paltry match-up have predicted that nearly 80,000 fans will be in attendance.

Evander Holyfield was a true warrior in the ring and he is absolutely one of the best and most accomplished pugilists in the history of the sport.

However, Holyfield should have retired at the end of the Clinton Administration and his contest versus Botha will inevitably continue to fade his once gleaming legacy.

Francois Botha is a legitimate and talented prizefighter.

Still, in Holyfield’s heyday, Botha would have been shellacked by “The Real Deal.”

Sadly, Holyfield’s heyday is in the very distant past.

Expect the “White Buffalo” to utterly brutalize the warrior in a couple of weeks.