Article: Holyfield-Lewis Round-By-Round

ED SCHUYLER JR., AP Boxing Writer
AP Online
03-14-1999
Holyfield-Lewis Round-By-Round

NEW YORK (AP) -- Round-by-round description of the heavyweight title unification bout between WBA and IBF champion Evander Holyfield and WBC champion Lennox Lewis.

Round 1

A sellout crowd of 21,284, paying more than $11 million, was packed into Madison Square Garden for the match. It was the first sellout for a heavyweight fight in the current Garden since Joe Frazier outpointed Muhammad Ali in The Fight on March 8, 1971.

Some 7,000 Lewis supporters from Britain showed up and made their presence felt long before Holyfield and Lewis entered the ring.

There were many Jamaican flags in evidence as Lewis ...

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