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 ATLANTA (AP) - When Evander Holyfield first boxing professionally, someone asked how long he planned to trade punches. He thought 28 sounded like a reasonable age to hang up the gloves, so he went with that.
Of course, here he is now, more than a decade and a half beyond his retirement goal — still stepping into the ring, still striving to be the undisputed heavyweight champion before they count him out for good.
"I realized that 28 is not as old as I thought it was," Holyfield said with a chuckle during a phone interview from his Texas training base. "I fought George (Foreman) when I was 29 and George was 42. I kind of thought, 'Shoot, man, I'll definitely be gone by that time. That would be real old.' Well, now I'm 44, and I don't think it's old at all."
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