{"id":1140263,"date":"2020-04-19T19:39:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T23:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1140263"},"modified":"2023-06-29T16:25:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:25:34","slug":"how-did-evander-holyfield-lose-over-200-million-of-his-net-worth-so-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/how-did-evander-holyfield-lose-over-200-million-of-his-net-worth-so-quickly\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did Evander Holyfield Lose Over $200 Million of His Net Worth so Quickly?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Boxing<\/a> is one of the most lucrative sports for the handful of fighters capable of making their way to the top. But after retirement, athletes across all sports regularly end up in financially compromised situations. Due to the immense difficulty and bodily strain of fighting in the first place, fighters' earnings are often on the scale of hundreds of millions by the time they wrap up their careers. Evander Holyfield is one of those fighters<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, he only holds a small fraction of his former net worth. What happened? Let's dive into Holyfield's earnings, his expenses, and his personal history to find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evander Holyfield's massive earnings from boxing alone<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In his prime, Holyfield was a massive draw, which meant his per-fight revenue was extremely high. His biggest fight, the infamous Holyfield vs. Tyson II<\/a>, that spun out of control in a bizarre ear-biting finish by Mike Tyson<\/a>, brought in just over $100 million by itself. If Holyfield was in the ring from the '90s to the early 2000s, tens of millions of dollars would've headed his way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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