Former US president Donald Trump is set to provide ringside commentary at a boxing match featuring former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield.
The fight will take place on Saturday (Sunday NZT) – on the evening of September 11 – and Trump’s son Donald Jr will also provide live commentary for the pay-per-view event.
“I love great fighters and great fights,” Trump said in a statement. “I look forward to seeing both this Saturday night and sharing my thoughts ringside. You won’t want to miss this special event.”
Former US president Donald Trump is set to provide ringside commentary at a boxing match featuring former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield.
The fight will take place on Saturday (Sunday NZT) – on the evening of September 11 – and Trump’s son Donald Jr will also provide live commentary for the pay-per-view event.
“I love great fighters and great fights,” Trump said in a statement. “I look forward to seeing both this Saturday night and sharing my thoughts ringside. You won’t want to miss this special event.”
Holyfield, 58, is taking on 44-year-old former UFC light heavyweight champion Vitor Belfort in the main event of a card assembled by Triller Fight Club. It will be staged at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, and aired on the FITE platform.
Trump, 75, has a long history of involvement with combat sports. He was briefly a major player in the boxing world in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when he was able to stage a number of high-profile fights at his Atlantic City properties.
Some of those fights featured Mike Tyson, including a 1988 win over former heavyweight champion Larry Holmes that became the only knockout loss of Holmes’ 75-fight career and, later that year, a 91-second destruction of lineal heavyweight champion Michael Spinks.
After Tyson was shockingly upset in Tokyo by James “Buster” Douglas, the latter quickly lost his heavyweight crowns to Holyfield. Trump then staged a 1991 “Battle of the Ages” fight in Atlantic City between Holyfield and former champion George Foreman.
Holyfield won that matchup and made two more successful title defences before he lost to Riddick Bowe in 1992. Holyfield subsequently won and lost several more heavyweight title fights, including two victories over Tyson, in a professional career that began in 1984 and appeared to finally end in 2011.
