Former Boxing Champ Evander Holyfield In Road Rage Incident

A male motorist has the mother of former boxing champ Evander Holyfield to thank for, otherwise the man would probably be black-and-blue all over following a road rage incident involving him and the ex-heavyweight boxer on Jan 29.

Mashable published a video showing the incident in which the very angry driver of a pickup thought he was cut off by Holyfield who was pulling out of his driveway his SUV. The motorist, garbed in a vest and trucker hat, got off his vehicle and hit his hand on Holyfield’s car and dared the driver of the other car to get out, reports AP.

However, his “tail” was soon behind his legs when the mad pickup driver realised he was challenging a former four-time heavyweight champ to a fight. The man ate humble pie and immediately apologised profusely.

While dealing with the angry motorist, Holyfield recalled his mother’s advice when he was 17 to just chill when in such a situation.

Holyfield, now 52, narrates that a driver then kept on tooting his horn and got out of his vehicle and talked to him rudely. Though not yet a champ then, Holyfield was an amateur boxer at that time. “He was thinking I can’t fight. I was a good fighter,” Mashable quotes Holyfield who retired from boxing in 2014 and takes advantage of being a celebrity, not to bully others but to lend his hand to worthy causes such as avoiding road rage.

Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens describes Holyfield as the perfect choice to be the poster boy for road-rage PSA, explaining, “Everyone knows he’s a former four-time heavyweight champion. And everyone knows they don’t want to mess around with him.”

The angry driver surely agrees with Olens.

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