BIZARRE things can happen when a boxer enters the twilight of a career. Their bodies soften. Their talents fade. They attempt to time-travel, and in an ironic way they succeed, for they find themselves stuck in the past. They once felt immortal, and in a grotesque way they now are, for they are repeatedly reanimated, not by mad scientists but by money-hungry promoters. Exotic realms are charted as they roam this limbo; places they never dreamed of visiting when Las Vegas and London would welcome them. Carnivals pay them to degrade themselves in gimmick matches. Siren songs lure them with promises of money and a return to lost glories, and then they are devoured by younger impostors.
These are not the tales of the boxers – almost all boxers – who merely fight on for too long. These are the tales of the boxers who fight on for years and years after they were last even remotely viable as contenders. These are tales of oddities, of embarrassments, of unusual locations – with no happy endings in sight.
EPISODE 1: EVANDER HOLYFIELD - TRUMPED ON 9/11
A LEGENDARY warrior who has already featured in several tales of the unexpected is called up one last time to perform in front of an audience of ghouls – with the once-most powerful man on the planet at the top table.
Even in his prime, Holyfield had experienced plenty of fantastical and supernatural twists and turns. He repelled time-travelling
