{"id":477147,"date":"2025-08-01T20:20:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T00:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/evander-holyfield-and-other-boxing-legends-visit-caracas-for-an-exhibition-night\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T20:20:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T00:20:52","slug":"evander-holyfield-and-other-boxing-legends-visit-caracas-for-an-exhibition-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/sports\/evander-holyfield-and-other-boxing-legends-visit-caracas-for-an-exhibition-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Evander Holyfield and other boxing legends visit Caracas for an exhibition night"},"content":{"rendered":"Caracas (EFE).- The legendary American boxer Evander Holyfield, whose ear was bitten by Mike Tyson during a fight in 1997, is one of the guest stars at an exhibition night in Caracas, which will also feature figures such as seven-time world champion Jorge \u2018El Travieso\u2019 Arce and super featherweight monarch Emanuel \u2018El Vaquero\u2019 Navarrete.\n\n\n

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During the weigh-in ceremony, Holyfield, 62, the only professional fighter to win the heavyweight title on four different occasions – surpassing Muhammad Ali’s record of three wins – encouraged the boxers participating in this Saturday’s event to “give it their all.”<\/p>\n\n\nHolyfield evokes the Pan American Games of Caracas<\/strong>
In addition, he recalled his visit to Venezuela in 1983, the year in which he participated in the Pan American Games representing his country and when he obtained a silver medal after losing against the Cuban Pablo Romero.\n\nFor his part, Navarrete, 30 years old, who since February 2023 holds the title of super featherweight world champion of the World Boxing Organization (WBO), thanked for the affection with which, he said, he has been received in the South American nation.\n\n“That makes you feel good, happy, content,” said The Cowboy.\n\n\n

The Mischievous Arce to young boxers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nFormer American professional boxer, Evander Holyfield, attends the face-off between Venezuelan boxer Yerny \u0093El Mostrico\u0094 Betancourt (left) and Mexican Miguel \u0093La M\u00e1quina\u0094 Gonz\u00e1lez. EFE\/ Ronald Pe\u00f1a R
In the same vein, El Travieso, also from Mexico, expressed his gratitude for the \u00abhospitality\u00bb in Venezuela, a country he is visiting for the first time.\n\n\u00abI want to tell the young people here, from Caracas, to all the boxers, to dream of being world champion, to fight, but above all, put in grit and put in effort\u00bb, he expressed.\n\nBoth Navarrete and Arce visited the sports center in the Caracas community of San Agust\u00edn on the afternoon of this Friday, where they witnessed exhibition fights between children and adolescents from local boxing schools and nearby areas.\n\nFor this Saturday’s event, which will take place at the Tamanaco Hotel in Caracas, the fights between Douglas Gonz\u00e1lez ‘La Guabina’ and Starling Mart\u00ednez ‘Martines’, as well as between Jes\u00fas Laya ‘El Rayo’ and Iv\u00e1n Garc\u00eda ‘El Tsunami’, are scheduled.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caracas (EFE).- The legendary American boxer Evander Holyfield, whose ear was bitten by Mike Tyson during a fight in 1997, is one of the guest stars at an exhibition night in Caracas, which will also feature figures such as seven-time world champion Jorge \u2018El Travieso\u2019 Arce and super featherweight monarch Emanuel \u2018El Vaquero\u2019 Navarrete. You […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":477148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[39780,611,40231,41186,40230],"class_list":{"0":"post-477147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-deultimominuto","10":"tag-dominican-republic","11":"tag-theperiodicodelatruth","12":"tag-united-states"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/Portada-2-1.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-207V","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Sports"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/Portada-2-1.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}