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cut. After the fight resume Mercer went on the attack and even began showboating by winding up his left hand before throwing his right. Holyfield would come back with a barrage of punches that sent Mercer to his knees for the first and only knockdown of the fight and the first knockdown of Mercer's professional career. Holyfield would control the remainder of the fight and won all three scorecards with scores of 97–92, 96–93 and 95–94.
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Holyfield attended one of televangelist and
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handle the duties. This would almost backfire for
Holyfield as the deep cut that he received in the sixth round nearly cost him a victory. Said the ringside physician Dr. Frank Doggett "I thought his cut man did a terrible job. A good cut man could stop that. If it got any worse I would have stopped
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In a hard-fought affair, Holyfield rebounded from a deep cut over his right eye to earn a unanimous decision victory. Mercer opened the cut during the sixth round. The cut plagued
Holyfield to the point that the referee stopped the fight in the eighth to allow the ringside physician to check on the
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had medically suspended
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209:heavyweight titleholder
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903:Holyfield vs. Tyson II
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833:Holyfield vs. Stewart
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119:$ 2,000,000
96:"Merciless"
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719:Ray Mercer
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293:Fight card
286:Don Turner
257:Benny Hinn
246:Background
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122:$ 250,000
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