Don’t call it a comeback.
When former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield enters the ring to fight Vitor Belfort this weekend, the tag team of Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. will be sitting ringside. ESPN fight reporter Mike Coppinger said Tuesday that event organizers told him the ink is dry on a deal that will have the two Trumps weighing in when Holyfield, who turns 59 next month, comes out swinging.
“Donald Trump has signed a contract to call a ‘gamecast’ of Saturday’s boxing event headlined by Evander Holyfield-Vitor Belfort, Triller tells ESPN,” Coppinger tweeted. “The former president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., will join him. Both Trumps will be in person in Hollywood, Florida.”
Holyfield, a boxer who won four heavyweight titles in the 1990s, is a slight favorite against his 44-year-old opponent, who is a mixed martial arts fighter from Brazil. Long before becoming the 45th president of the United States, Trump was a big player in professional boxing, due to his involvement in the Atlantic City hotel casino scene. Boxing Scene magazine reportedly ranked him the most powerful man in the fight game at one point. He was inducted into the Atlantic City Hall of Fame as well as the New Jersey Hall of Fame. In 2001, Trump hosted a pair of MMA fights at his Trump Taj Mahal before the sport went mainstream, Barstool Sports reports.
Holyfield and Belfort are the main event on a fight night that coincides with the 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. The former President, also a former New Yorker, moved to Florida after leaving the White House in January.
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