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Steroids Taint Evander Holyfield's Career

Steroids Taint Evander Holyfield's Career, By: Michael David Smith February 28, 2007 I love boxing, and Evander Holyfield is one of my all-time favorites. I was cheering for him when Fan Man flew into the ring against Riddick Bowe, cheering for him when Mike Tyson bit his ears, and cheering for him a few dozen other times in his (too) long career. But after the report in the Albany Times-Union that two pharmacists have been indicted for trafficking performance-enhancing drugs over the Internet and that Holyfield was on their customer list, is there any doubt left in anyone's mind that Holyfield's great boxing career was fueled, in large part, by steroids? Let's face it, if there's any athlete in modern history who fails the eyeball test for steroids, it's Holyfield. If you saw Holyfield when he was a lean cruiserweight early in his career, you'd be shocked that the bulked-up specimen you see in the picture is the same person. Holyfield continues to fight at age 44. His next fight is less than three weeks away. Anyone who's heard him speak knows brain damage from being punched in the head has done him serious harm, and yet he continues to pass the necessary medical tests to get a boxing license. If brain damage can't convince boxing authorities to ban him from the ring, maybe evidence that he used steroids can.