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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:38, 15 October 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Holyfield-Dokes.jpg|400px|right<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|</del>]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; 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white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*&#039;&#039;&#039;[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">WBC</del>]] Continental Americas Heavyweight Title&#039;&#039;&#039; (2nd defense by Dokes)</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*&#039;&#039;&#039;[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">World Boxing Council</ins>]] Continental Americas Heavyweight Title&#039;&#039;&#039; (2nd defense by Dokes<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">)</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; 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color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*&#039;&#039;&#039;Photo:&#039;&#039;&#039; [[:File:Michael Dokes vs. Evander Holyfield . 1989.jpg|Holyfield and Dokes in December 1988]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*&#039;&#039;&#039;Photo:&#039;&#039;&#039; [[:File:Michael Dokes vs. Evander Holyfield . 1989.jpg|Holyfield and Dokes in December 1988]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br clear=all></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Notes==</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Notes ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Dokes entered the fight as the [[WBC]] Continental Americas Heavyweight Champion. He won the vacant title when he stopped [[James Pritchard]] in seven rounds on April 28, 1988.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*Dokes entered the fight as the [[WBC]] Continental Americas Heavyweight Champion. He won the vacant title when he stopped [[James Pritchard]] in seven rounds on April 28, 1988.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*On December 9, 1988, Holyfield and Dokes fought on the same card in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Holyfield stopped [[Pinklon Thomas]] after seven rounds, and Dokes outpointed [[Rocky Sekorski]] over twelve rounds. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">  </del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*On December 9, 1988, Holyfield and Dokes fought on the same card in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Holyfield stopped [[Pinklon Thomas]] after seven rounds, and Dokes outpointed [[Rocky Sekorski]] over twelve rounds.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*Referee [[Richard Steele]] deducted a point from Dokes in the 6th round for repeated low blows.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*In the 6th round Holyfield opened up a cut over Dokes&#039;s left eye.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*The end came with stunning swiftness in the 10th round. Holyfield wobbled Dokes with a left hook, then caught Dokes with another left hook a few moments later that sent him staggering back into the ropes. As Dokes bounced off the ropes, Holyfield smashed a hard right to the head. Steele rushed in and pinned Holyfield&#039;s arms as Dokes fell to his knees, his right arm hooked around one of the lower ropes. &quot;I saw Dokes&#039; eyes roll up,&quot; said Steele. &quot;One more would have been one too many.&quot;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[[The Ring Magazine|&#039;&#039;The Ring&#039;&#039;]] named Holyfield vs. Dokes the best heavyweight fight of the 1980s.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[[The Ring Magazine|&#039;&#039;The Ring&#039;&#039;]] named Holyfield vs. Dokes the best heavyweight fight of the 1980s.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; 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font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&#039;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&#039;&#039;YOU&#039;RE NEXT</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">TYSON&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br&gt;</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*[http://www.maxboxing.com/news/other-boxing-news/introducing-lateef-kayode &quot;You</ins>&#039;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">re next</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tyson. </ins>Evander Holyfield KO&#039;d Michael Dokes and earned a title bout with the champ<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&quot; by </ins>[[Pat Putnam]], &#039;&#039;[[Sports Illustrated]]&#039;&#039;, March 20, 1989.]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&#039;&#039;&#039;</del>Evander Holyfield KO&#039;d Michael Dokes and earned a title bout with the champ<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br&gt;</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;small&gt;By </del>[[Pat Putnam]], &#039;&#039;[[Sports Illustrated]]&#039;&#039;, March 20, 1989<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;/small&gt;</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">There were moments during their heavyweight bout last Saturday night in Las Vegas when Evander Holyfield and Michael Dokes looked like two men trying to knock down mountains. It hardly seemed relevant to consider that the one who reduced the other to rubble would be rewarded with the grim task of trying to do the same to heavyweight champion [[Mike Tyson]]. The fight was more than 28 minutes of unrelenting violence, and surely, after watching Holyfield hammer Dokes to the floor for good in the 10th round, Holyfield&#039;s impetuous manager, Ken Sanders, can be forgiven for challenging Tyson to an</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">immediate bout, winner take all.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Holyfield, the 26-year-old former cruiserweight champion, has spent 11 months plotting a course toward a fight with Tyson, and in the first flush of his victory over Dokes, he said he had no objection if Sanders wanted to gamble with his future multimillion-dollar payday. Still, he really ought to have a talk with his seconds on this matter of tossing all of the money into one pot.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">After all, Dokes, Holyfield&#039;s first real test in three outings as a heavyweight, is no Tyson. Yet, it can be argued that he is the third-best heavyweight in the world, after Tyson and Holyfield. As [[Marty Cohen]], Dokes&#039;s 91-year-old manager, said after Saturday&#039;s fight, &quot;Michael lost tonight. But it was a heroic loss. Any other heavyweight tonight, except Tyson, he would have knocked dead.&quot;</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">For Dokes, who returned to the ring on Dec. 17, 1987, after a 33-month absence to deal with alcohol and drug problems, the Holyfield fight was to be the climax of a remarkable comeback. Since his return, he has defeated eight forgettable heavyweights and won the Continental Americas championship, which was at stake in Las Vegas on Saturday. In 10 weeks of training for Holyfield, Dokes, the former [[WBA]] heavyweight champion, had pushed his 30-year-old body to the limit and beyond, and the 225 pounds he carried into the Sports Pavilion ring at [[Caesars Palace]] were solid and finely tuned. &quot;During some of his workouts, the pain was so fierce he&#039;d scream like a banshee,&quot; said John Smyth, Dokes&#039;s conditioning coach. &quot;But he&#039;d never quit.&quot;</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Holyfield&#039;s people admitted that fighting Dokes was a gamble. Credibility was their goal: Holyfield won his first two heavyweight fights by TKOs over aging journeymen [[James Tillis]] and [[Pinklon Thomas]], but neither was knocked off his feet. &quot;Anything happens, blame me,&quot; said [[Lou Duva]], Holyfield&#039;s career strategist, before the fight. &quot;I picked Dokes. Hey, we keep telling people that Evander is a legitimate title contender, and now we have to prove it. People say we&#039;ve been trying to do it with mirrors. Dokes ain&#039;t no mirror.&quot;</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">At one time, Dokes was a runner. That was when he was a relatively skinny 6 ft. 3 in. heavyweight. When he won the WBA title from [[Mike Weaver]] in December 1982, Dokes had a 16 1/2-inch neck and weighed 216 pounds. Less than a year later he lost the title to [[Gerrie Coetzee]] of South Africa because, he says, he trained on cocaine and Jack Daniel&#039;s. &quot;Now he has a 19-inch neck and the body of a man,&quot; said Smyth. &quot;Now he is a big heavyweight and he has to fight like a big heavyweight.&quot;</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dokes&#039;s plan was to break Holyfield&#039;s 208-pound body, starting at the 32-inch waist and then working his way up. &quot;He&#039;s going to try and intimidate you,&quot; cautioned [[George Benton|Georgie Benton]], Holyfield&#039;s trainer, right before the fight. &quot;Whatever he does, you do it back and you do it better.&quot; From the opening bell, the two fighters rocked each other, Dokes with left hooks to the body, Holyfield mostly with hard rights to the head. Dokes had said that he would fight a kamikaze fight, and was prepared to take a brutal beating in order to win. In his eagerness to batter Holyfield&#039;s ribs, Dokes sometimes dipped and pivoted too low, and three or four of his first-round hooks caught Holyfield well below the belt.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Near the end of that round, Holyfield retaliated by drilling a hook hard against Dokes&#039;s protective cup, and referee [[Richard Steele]] allowed Dokes time to recover. &quot;You&#039;re a dog, a lousy dog!&quot; Duva screamed at Dokes. At the end of the round, the referee told the fighters, &quot;O.K., you guys are even on low blows. From now on, anything low I deduct a point.&quot;</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The fighting was savage, with neither man taking a step back. Some had feared that Holyfield, a gentle man outside of the ring, might allow his sympathy for Dokes&#039;s comeback to affect his performance. They need not have worried. On Feb. 14, 1987, Holyfield nearly destroyed [[Henry Tillman]], an [[Olympics|Olympic]] teammate and a close friend, knocking him out in the seventh round</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Promoter [[Dan Duva</del>]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">], Lou&#039;s son, said to Holyfield then, &quot;I thought Henry was your friend.&quot; Growled Holyfield, &quot;Not in the ring, he isn&#039;t.&quot; Five months later Holyfield was an usher at Tillman&#039;s wedding.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In the sixth, Steele caught Dokes hitting low again and took away a point. A moment later, Holyfield opened up a cut over Dokes&#039;s left eye. The violent pace never slowed. The eighth round was especially vicious, a seesaw of hurt, in which one man would fire a furious burst, only to be punished by a brutal rally in return.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">When Holyfield came back to his corner after the ninth round, he was well ahead on all three cards. Judge [[Dalby Shirley]] had him winning 89-82, which seemed too wide a margin. [[Paul Smith (judge)|Paul Smith]] had him in front 87-84; [[Dave Moretti]] had the fight 87-83. Each, of course, had deducted one point for Dokes&#039;s low blow in the sixth. Still, Holyfield&#039;s corner was taking nothing for granted. As Holyfield sat on his stool, [[Ace Marotta]], his cutman, whispered, &quot;You had better pray.&quot; As Holyfield went out for the 10th round, he was praying silently.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Midway through the round, with both fighters looking as if they had spent their best efforts, the end came with stunning swiftness. Holyfield fired a hook to the head that Dokes never saw; then Holyfield caught his dazed victim with another shattering left a few moments later.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&quot;I saw Dokes&#039;s eyes roll up,&quot; said Steele. As Dokes bounced off the ropes, Holyfield smashed a hard right to the head. Steele rushed in and pinned Holyfield&#039;s arms as Dokes fell to his knees, his right arm hooked around one of the lower ropes. &quot;One more would have been one too many,&quot; said Steele, who should be commended for stopping the fight at precisely the right moment. The win improved Holyfield&#039;s record to 21-0.</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Indeed, Dokes, who is now 37-2-2, had fought this one like a kamikaze; he attacked, and he crashed. But unlike those warriors, he survived, and one can only hope that he will fly again. Amid a rabble of dismal heavyweight contenders, he is a bright light. Now, Evander, about this matter of fighting Tyson, winner take all. . . .</del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key wikidb:diff::1.12:old-553244:rev-698673 --> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 00:18, 12 January 2015</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Holyfield-Dokes.jpg|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">325px</del>|right|]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; 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border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*&#039;&#039;&#039;[[WBC]] Continental Americas Heavyweight Title&#039;&#039;&#039; (2nd defense by Dokes)</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*&#039;&#039;&#039;[[WBC]] Continental Americas Heavyweight Title&#039;&#039;&#039; (2nd defense by Dokes)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*[[:File:Michael Dokes vs. Evander Holyfield . 1989.jpg|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Photo</del>]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&#039;&#039;&#039;Photo:&#039;&#039;&#039; </ins>[[:File:Michael Dokes vs. Evander Holyfield . 1989.jpg|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Holyfield and Dokes in December 1988</ins>]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br clear=all&gt;</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Notes==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Notes==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*The fight <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">took place </del>at the Caesars Palace <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sports Pavilion</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dokes entered the fight as the [[WBC]] Continental Americas Heavyweight Champion. He won the vacant title when he stopped [[James Pritchard]] in seven rounds on April 28, 1988. </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*Referee </del>Richard Steele <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">deducted </del>a point <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from </del>Dokes in the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">6th </del>round for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">repeated </del>low <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">blows</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*On December 9, 1988, Holyfield and Dokes fought on the same card in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Holyfield stopped [[Pinklon Thomas]] after seven rounds, and Dokes outpointed [[Rocky Sekorski]] over twelve rounds.  </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*The </del>end came with stunning swiftness <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in the 10th round</del>. Holyfield <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wobbled Dokes with </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">left </del>hook<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>then caught <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dokes </del>with another left <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hook </del>a few moments later <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that sent him staggering back into the ropes</del>. As Dokes bounced off the ropes, Holyfield smashed a hard right to the head. Steele rushed in and pinned Holyfield&#039;s arms as Dokes fell to his knees, his right arm hooked around one of the lower ropes<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. &quot;I saw Dokes&#039; eyes roll up,&quot; said Steele</del>. &quot;One more would have been one too many.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&quot;</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*[[</ins>The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ring Magazine|&#039;&#039;The Ring&#039;&#039;]] named Holyfield vs. Dokes the best heavyweight fight of the 1980s.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*Judge Dalby Shirley had Holyfield winning 89</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">82</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dave Moretti </del>had <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">him ahead 87-83</del>, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Paul Smith had him in front 87-84</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*[[The Ring Magazine]] named Holyfield vs</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dokes the best </del>heavyweight <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fight </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the 1980s</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&#039;&#039;&#039;YOU&#039;RE NEXT, TYSON&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&#039;&#039;&#039;Evander Holyfield KO&#039;d Michael Dokes and earned a title bout with the champ&#039;&#039;&#039;&lt;br&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;small&gt;By [[Pat Putnam]], &#039;&#039;[[Sports Illustrated]]&#039;&#039;, March 20, 1989&lt;/small&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">There were moments during their heavyweight bout last Saturday night in Las Vegas when Evander Holyfield and Michael Dokes looked like two men trying to knock down mountains. It hardly seemed relevant to consider that the one who reduced the other to rubble would be rewarded with the grim task of trying to do the same to heavyweight champion [[Mike Tyson]]. The fight was more than 28 minutes of unrelenting violence, and surely, after watching Holyfield hammer Dokes to the floor for good in the 10th round, Holyfield&#039;s impetuous manager, Ken Sanders, can be forgiven for challenging Tyson to an</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">immediate bout, winner take all.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Holyfield, the 26-year-old former cruiserweight champion, has spent 11 months plotting a course toward a fight with Tyson, and in the first flush of his victory over Dokes, he said he had no objection if Sanders wanted to gamble with his future multimillion-dollar payday. Still, he really ought to have a talk with his seconds on this matter of tossing all of the money into one pot.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">After all, Dokes, Holyfield&#039;s first real test in three outings as a heavyweight, is no Tyson. Yet, it can be argued that he is the third-best heavyweight in the world, after Tyson and Holyfield. As [[Marty Cohen]], Dokes&#039;s 91-year-old manager, said after Saturday&#039;s </ins>fight<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, &quot;Michael lost tonight. But it was a heroic loss. Any other heavyweight tonight, except Tyson, he would have knocked dead.&quot;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">For Dokes, who returned to the ring on Dec. 17, 1987, after a 33-month absence to deal with alcohol and drug problems, the Holyfield fight was to be the climax of a remarkable comeback. Since his return, he has defeated eight forgettable heavyweights and won the Continental Americas championship, which was </ins>at <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">stake in Las Vegas on Saturday. In 10 weeks of training for Holyfield, Dokes, the former [[WBA]] heavyweight champion, had pushed his 30-year-old body to the limit and beyond, and the 225 pounds he carried into </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sports Pavilion ring at [[</ins>Caesars Palace<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] were solid and finely tuned. &quot;During some of his workouts, the pain was so fierce he&#039;d scream like a banshee,&quot; said John Smyth, Dokes&#039;s conditioning coach. &quot;But he&#039;d never quit.&quot;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Holyfield&#039;s people admitted that fighting Dokes was a gamble. Credibility was their goal: Holyfield won his first two heavyweight fights by TKOs over aging journeymen [[James Tillis]] and [[Pinklon Thomas]], but neither was knocked off his feet. &quot;Anything happens, blame me,&quot; said [[Lou Duva]], Holyfield&#039;s career strategist, before the fight. &quot;I picked Dokes. Hey, we keep telling people that Evander is a legitimate title contender, and now we have to prove it. People say we&#039;ve been trying to do it with mirrors. Dokes ain&#039;t no mirror.&quot;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">At one time, Dokes was a runner. That was when he was a relatively skinny 6 ft. 3 in. heavyweight. When he won the WBA title from [[Mike Weaver]] in December 1982, Dokes had a 16 1/2-inch neck and weighed 216 pounds. Less than a year later he lost the title to [[Gerrie Coetzee]] of South Africa because, he says, he trained on cocaine and Jack Daniel&#039;s. &quot;Now he has a 19-inch neck and the body of a man,&quot; said Smyth. &quot;Now he is a big heavyweight and he has to fight like a big heavyweight.&quot;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dokes&#039;s plan was to break Holyfield&#039;s 208-pound body, starting at the 32-inch waist and then working his way up. &quot;He&#039;s going to try and intimidate you,&quot; cautioned [[George Benton|Georgie Benton]], Holyfield&#039;s trainer, right before the fight. &quot;Whatever he does, you do it back and you do it better.&quot; From the opening bell, the two fighters rocked each other, Dokes with left hooks to the body, Holyfield mostly with hard rights to the head. Dokes had said that he would fight a kamikaze fight, and was prepared to take a brutal beating in order to win. In his eagerness to batter Holyfield&#039;s ribs, Dokes sometimes dipped and pivoted too low, and three or four of his first-round hooks caught Holyfield well below the belt</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Near the end of that round, Holyfield retaliated by drilling a hook hard against Dokes&#039;s protective cup, and referee [[</ins>Richard Steele<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] allowed Dokes time to recover. &quot;You&#039;re a dog, a lousy dog!&quot; Duva screamed at Dokes. At the end of the round, the referee told the fighters, &quot;O.K., you guys are even on low blows. From now on, anything low I deduct </ins>a point<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.&quot;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The fighting was savage, with neither man taking a step back. Some had feared that Holyfield, a gentle man outside of the ring, might allow his sympathy for </ins>Dokes<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&#039;s comeback to affect his performance. They need not have worried. On Feb. 14, 1987, Holyfield nearly destroyed [[Henry Tillman]], an [[Olympics|Olympic]] teammate and a close friend, knocking him out </ins>in the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">seventh </ins>round<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Promoter [[Dan Duva]], Lou&#039;s son, said to Holyfield then, &quot;I thought Henry was your friend.&quot; Growled Holyfield, &quot;Not in the ring, he isn&#039;t.&quot; Five months later Holyfield was an usher at Tillman&#039;s wedding.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In the sixth, Steele caught Dokes hitting low again and took away a point. A moment later, Holyfield opened up a cut over Dokes&#039;s left eye. The violent pace never slowed. The eighth round was especially vicious, a seesaw of hurt, in which one man would fire a furious burst, only to be punished by a brutal rally in return.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">When Holyfield came back to his corner after the ninth round, he was well ahead on all three cards. Judge [[Dalby Shirley]] had him winning 89-82, which seemed too wide a margin. [[Paul Smith (judge)|Paul Smith]] had him in front 87-84; [[Dave Moretti]] had the fight 87-83. Each, of course, had deducted one point </ins>for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dokes&#039;s </ins>low <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">blow in the sixth. Still, Holyfield&#039;s corner was taking nothing for granted. As Holyfield sat on his stool, [[Ace Marotta]], his cutman, whispered, &quot;You had better pray.&quot; As Holyfield went out for the 10th round, he was praying silently</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Midway through the round, with both fighters looking as if they had spent their best efforts, the </ins>end came with stunning swiftness. Holyfield <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fired </ins>a hook <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to the head that Dokes never saw; </ins>then <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Holyfield </ins>caught <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his dazed victim </ins>with another <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shattering </ins>left a few moments later<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&quot;I saw Dokes&#039;s eyes roll up,&quot; said Steele</ins>. As Dokes bounced off the ropes, Holyfield smashed a hard right to the head. Steele rushed in and pinned Holyfield&#039;s arms as Dokes fell to his knees, his right arm hooked around one of the lower ropes. &quot;One more would have been one too many<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">,&quot; said Steele, who should be commended for stopping the fight at precisely the right moment</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The win improved Holyfield&#039;s record to 21-0.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Indeed, Dokes, who is now 37-2</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2</ins>, had <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fought this one like a kamikaze; he attacked</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">he crashed</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">But unlike those warriors, he survived, and one can only hope that he will fly again</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Amid a rabble of dismal </ins>heavyweight <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">contenders, he is a bright light. Now, Evander, about this matter </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fighting Tyson, winner take all. . . </ins>.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key wikidb:diff::1.12:old-446493:rev-553244 --> </table>

Boxsoup https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Evander_Holyfield_vs._Michael_Dokes&diff=446493&oldid=prev 2012-10-10T03:46:30Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:46, 10 October 2012</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Michael </del>Dokes <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">vs. Evander Holyfield . 1989</del>.jpg|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">350px|thumb</del>|right|]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Holyfield-</ins>Dokes.jpg|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">325px</ins>|right|]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;fight&gt;3297&lt;/fight&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;fight&gt;3297&lt;/fight&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*&#039;&#039;&#039;[[WBC]] Continental Americas Heavyweight Title&#039;&#039;&#039; (2nd defense by Dokes)</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A </del>point <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was deducted </del>from Dokes in the 6th round for repeated low blows, and Dokes <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">went down in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">10th when the referee was intervening </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">stopping </del>the fight.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*[[:File:Michael Dokes vs. Evander Holyfield . 1989.jpg|Photo]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br clear=all&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">==Notes==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*The fight took place at the Caesars Palace Sports Pavilion.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*Referee Richard Steele deducted a </ins>point from Dokes in the 6th round for repeated low blows<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*The end came with stunning swiftness in the 10th round. Holyfield wobbled Dokes with a left hook, then caught Dokes with another left hook a few moments later that sent him staggering back into the ropes. As Dokes bounced off the ropes</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Holyfield smashed a hard right to the head. Steele rushed in </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pinned Holyfield&#039;s arms as </ins>Dokes <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fell to his knees, his right arm hooked around one of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lower ropes. &quot;I saw Dokes&#039; eyes roll up,&quot; said Steele. &quot;One more would have been one too many.&quot;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*Judge Dalby Shirley had Holyfield winning 89-82, Dave Moretti had him ahead 87-83, </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Paul Smith had him in front 87-84.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*[[The Ring Magazine]] named Holyfield vs. Dokes </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">best heavyweight </ins>fight <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of the 1980s</ins>.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key wikidb:diff::1.12:old-332768:rev-446493 --> </table>

Boxsoup https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Evander_Holyfield_vs._Michael_Dokes&diff=332768&oldid=prev 2011-01-08T01:16:35Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 01:16, 8 January 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[File:Michael Dokes vs. Evander Holyfield . 1989.jpg|350px|thumb|right|]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;fight&gt;3297&lt;/fight&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;fight&gt;3297&lt;/fight&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A point was deducted from Dokes in the 6th round for repeated low blows, and Dokes went down in the 10th when the referee was intervening and stopping the fight.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A point was deducted from Dokes in the 6th round for repeated low blows, and Dokes went down in the 10th when the referee was intervening and stopping the fight.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key wikidb:diff::1.12:old-261185:rev-332768 --> </table>

Fasan https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Evander_Holyfield_vs._Michael_Dokes&diff=261185&oldid=prev 2009-04-20T03:06:34Z

<p>clarified that Dokes went only down when/slightly after the fight was being stopped</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:06, 20 April 2009</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;fight&gt;3297&lt;/fight&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;fight&gt;3297&lt;/fight&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A point was deducted from Dokes in the 6th round for repeated low blows, and Dokes <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was knocked </del>down in the 10th.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A point was deducted from Dokes in the 6th round for repeated low blows, and Dokes <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">went </ins>down in the 10th <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">when the referee was intervening and stopping the fight</ins>.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key wikidb:diff::1.12:old-157037:rev-261185 --> </table>

Emaster https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Evander_Holyfield_vs._Michael_Dokes&diff=157037&oldid=prev 2007-08-25T13:20:02Z

<p><a href="/wiki/index.php/Fight:3297" class="mw-redirect" title="Fight:3297">Fight:3297</a> moved to <a href="/wiki/index.php/Michael_Dokes_vs._Evander_Holyfield" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Dokes vs. Evander Holyfield">Michael Dokes vs. Evander Holyfield</a></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 13:20, 25 August 2007</td> </tr> <!-- diff cache key wikidb:diff::1.12:old-51731:rev-157037 --> </table>

Emaster https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Evander_Holyfield_vs._Michael_Dokes&diff=51731&oldid=prev 2005-06-11T18:31:46Z

<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;fight&gt;3297&lt;/fight&gt;<br /> A point was deducted from Dokes in the 6th round for repeated low blows, and Dokes was knocked down in the 10th.</div>

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