Evan Holyfield won on his professional debut with an erratic first-round knockout on Saturday night.
Prior to Canelo Alvarez vs Sergey Kovalev in Las Vegas, the son of legendary two-weight champion Evander Holyfield got his own boxing career underway.
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Holyfield came out showing plenty of understandable nervous energy.
The 22-year-old was swinging in frenetic fashion, but the tactic proved effective for him against his limited opponent.
The combination of lefts and rights put Nick Winstead away within 16 seconds and made Evander Holyfield a very proud father watching at ringside.
In his career, Evander famously won the undisputed cruiserweight world titles before then moving up to heavyweight and repeating the feat.
His two fights against Mike Tyson were arguably the biggest of the decade