Evander Holyfield Reports of Death are a Hoax....He's alive and well.

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PsychoGamerTwo
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Evander Holyfield Reports of Death are a Hoax....He's alive and well.

Post by PsychoGamerTwo »

...just read this on Twitter. Is it true???
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Link?

Might want to at least put a question mark in the thread title too.
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Probably fake, people claiming living people are dead is weirdly common, plus he tweeted 35 min ago.
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crusader wrote:Link?

Might want to at least put a question mark in the thread title too.
Exactly. There is no semi-reliable source.
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The OP should delete his thread....actually I don’t think you can once it’s been added to. Bad form to announce a “death” like that. Take note for future reference :TU:
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Fvcking idiot for posting this :evil:
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Re: RIP Evander Holyfield

Post by davie »

The guys made an honest mistake.

Give the guy a break.
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Re: RIP Evander Holyfield

Post by Enlightened-One »

davie wrote:The guys made an honest mistake.

Give the guy a break.
There's nothing "honest" about laziness.

The OP didn't bother to make an effort to supply a source of this fictional news and no effort whatsoever was made to verify this misinformation.
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Re: Evander Holyfield Reports of Death are a Hoax....He's alive and well.

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I changed the title, just to be accurate, informative, and ward off any further upset on behalf of the readers.
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BoxBuzz wrote:I changed the title, just to be accurate, informative, and ward off any further upset on behalf of the readers.
Hopefully that will settle down Rover.
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Post by Enlightened-One »

I'm glad the title of this thread had been corrected.

I honestly don't know why some people refuse to spend five seconds to verify the accuracy of such shocking fictional news.

Perhaps it's just me, maybe my mindset works differently to others.
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I guess not.
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Re: Evander Holyfield Reports of Death are a Hoax....He's alive and well.

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...We often blame media for sensationalism, this is just one more example..
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Re: RIP Evander Holyfield

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Enlightened-One wrote:
davie wrote:The guys made an honest mistake.

Give the guy a break.
There's nothing "honest" about laziness.

The OP didn't bother to make an effort to supply a source of this fictional news and no effort whatsoever was made to verify this misinformation.
Well as long as we're talking about lack of effort, it would have took you 3 seconds to open the thread and confirm that the OP was in fact uncertain and had come on to ask whether this was true or not. A query, not a statement of fact.
The thread title was misleading, as I said, no doubt an honest mistake.
Unfortunately however, the internet is full to bursting with arseholes looking for something to be offended by/get angry about
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SaadOffTheDeck wrote:I guess not.
:lol: unfortunately it seems a huge tub of butthurt-cream was unavailable
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davie wrote:
Enlightened-One wrote:There's nothing "honest" about laziness.

The OP didn't bother to make an effort to supply a source of this fictional news and no effort whatsoever was made to verify this misinformation.
Well as long as we're talking about lack of effort, it would have took you 3 seconds to open the thread and confirm that the OP was in fact uncertain and had come on to ask whether this was true or not. A query, not a statement of fact.
The thread title was misleading, as I said, no doubt an honest mistake.
Unfortunately however, the internet is full to bursting with arseholes looking for something to be offended by/get angry about
It only took me three seconds for me to provide an article dispelling the shocking rumour posted by the OP.

It would have been quicker for the OP to do this himself rather than creating an attention-grabbing thread with a clickbait title that was a statement rather than a question.

Even when the facts were established, the OP didn’t change the title of this thread until he faced criticism.

I wasn’t the only forum poster who criticised the actions of the OP, but I guess it’s OK for you to single me out, by only criticising me for my outrageously offensive words, such as stating the obvious, which is clearly deeply upsetting to some!
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Re: Evander Holyfield Reports of Death are a Hoax....He's alive and well.

Post by davie »

Enlightened-One wrote:
davie wrote:
Enlightened-One wrote:There's nothing "honest" about laziness.

The OP didn't bother to make an effort to supply a source of this fictional news and no effort whatsoever was made to verify this misinformation.
Well as long as we're talking about lack of effort, it would have took you 3 seconds to open the thread and confirm that the OP was in fact uncertain and had come on to ask whether this was true or not. A query, not a statement of fact.
The thread title was misleading, as I said, no doubt an honest mistake.
Unfortunately however, the internet is full to bursting with arseholes looking for something to be offended by/get angry about
It only took me three seconds for me to provide an article dispelling the shocking rumour posted by the OP.

It would have been quicker for the OP to do this himself rather than creating an attention-grabbing thread with a clickbait title that was a statement rather than a question.

Even when the facts were established, the OP didn’t change the title of this thread until he faced criticism.

I wasn’t the only forum poster who criticised the actions of the OP, but I guess it’s OK for you to single me out, by only criticising me for my outrageously offensive words, such as stating the obvious, which is clearly deeply offensive to some!
I didn't single you out. I wasn't talking about you!
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Counter-puncher wrote:
SaadOffTheDeck wrote:I guess not.
:lol: unfortunately it seems a huge tub of butthurt-cream was unavailable
He's busting out of his shell now. Fugmo, in enlightened form!
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Re: Evander Holyfield Reports of Death are a Hoax....He's alive and well.

Post by PsychoGamerTwo »

Enlightened-One wrote:
davie wrote:
Enlightened-One wrote:There's nothing "honest" about laziness.

The OP didn't bother to make an effort to supply a source of this fictional news and no effort whatsoever was made to verify this misinformation.
Even when the facts were established, the OP didn’t change the title of this thread until he faced criticism.
Sorry, had to work all day, and im not one of those phonejunkies, being online 24/7.

I didn't change the title either.
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Re: Evander Holyfield Reports of Death are a Hoax....He's alive and well.

Post by Boxerbeetle »

PsychoGamerTwo wrote:
Enlightened-One wrote:
davie wrote:
Even when the facts were established, the OP didn’t change the title of this thread until he faced criticism.
Sorry, had to work all day, and im not one of those phonejunkies, being online 24/7.

I didn't change the title either.
So you're not a phone junky, but your first reaction to a Twitter hoax was to start a thread on Boxrec entitled 'RIP Evander Holyfield'. Yeah ok.
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SaadOffTheDeck wrote:
Counter-puncher wrote:
SaadOffTheDeck wrote:I guess not.
:lol: unfortunately it seems a huge tub of butthurt-cream was unavailable
He's busting out of his shell now. Fugmo, in enlightened form!
"never go full FUGMO..*NEVER* go full FUGMO"
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Re: Evander Holyfield Reports of Death are a Hoax....He's alive and well.

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Counter-puncher wrote:
SaadOffTheDeck wrote:
Counter-puncher wrote:
:lol: unfortunately it seems a huge tub of butthurt-cream was unavailable
He's busting out of his shell now. Fugmo, in enlightened form!
"never go full FUGMO..*NEVER* go full FUGMO"
:lol:

He's so seething right now, trying with everything he has not to erupt. Enjoyable.
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Re: RIP Evander Holyfield

Post by Redback Rasta »

Enlightened-One wrote:
davie wrote:The guys made an honest mistake.

Give the guy a break.
There's nothing "honest" about laziness.

The OP didn't bother to make an effort to supply a source of this fictional news and no effort whatsoever was made to verify this misinformation.
:OhYes:
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