The Real Deal: Boxing's Ultimate Warrior
Hello! Please read the opening chapter of The Real Deal: Boxing's Ultimate Warrior, out on 03rd October 2021 and let me know your thoughts in the comments section. All the best Lea linktr.ee/leroy_fight_writer Chubby Evander Holyfield was born in Atmore, Alabama on 19 th October 1962. The southern Alabama mill town, about two miles from the Florida border, was pleasant and industrious and far removed from nearby Montgomery which endured riots in the stormy 1960s. Holyfield was the youngest of nine siblings, eight of them living as his older brother, Jimmy, died after childbirth of pneumonia. Bernard Holyfield was a year older than Evander and the two became inseparable, growing up together and getting into countless mishaps throughout their childhood. Raised in the deep south by their mother, Annie Laura Riggen, who was born in Atlanta in July 1928. Aged fifteen, she married Joseph Holyfield until the couple divorced in 1953. After the divorce, Joseph would