Boxing Scene magazine reportedly ranked him the most powerful man in the fight game at one point.
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Long before becoming the 45th president of the United States, Trump was a big player in professional boxing, due to his involvement in the Atlantic City hotel casino scene. Holyfield, a boxer who won four heavyweight titles in the 1990s, is a slight favorite against his 44-year-old opponent, who is a mixed martial arts fighter from Brazil. Both Trumps will be in person in Hollywood, Florida.”
“The former president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., will join him. “Donald Trump has signed a contract to call a ‘gamecast’ of Saturday’s boxing event headlined by Evander Holyfield-Vitor Belfort, Triller tells ESPN,” Coppinger tweeted. ESPN fight reporter Mike Coppinger said Tuesday that event organizers told him the ink is dry on a deal that will have the two Trumps weighing in when Holyfield, who turns 59 next month, comes out swinging. The Washington Post reported on Saturday that Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle would skip the traditional visit to the White House to mark the team's victory, saying he "just can't" celebrate with Trump.ĭoolittle, 33, was quoted as saying he would not go because his wife's parents are lesbians and he has a disabled brother-in-law, and Trump has mocked both lesbians and the disabled.When former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield enters the ring to fight Vitor Belfort this weekend, the tag team of Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. Some attendees booed and chanted "Lock him up!" when Trump was shown on screen at the Washington Nationals Park stadium.
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Trump's mixed welcome at Madison Square Garden was still a good deal warmer than the icy reception he received at Game 5 of the Major League Baseball World Series between the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros last Sunday. During a visit to Japan earlier this year, he spent what he said was an "incredible evening" watching sumo wrestling in Tokyo with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. "I would never say anything negative about Donald Trump because he was there when other people weren't," said White, who spoke at the 2016 Republican National Convention in support of Trump's candidacy. Trump hosted UFC events at his since-bankrupt Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City decades ago when the sport was spurned by most venues, White said in an interview last year with The Hill. The life-long New Yorker also has a long relationship with MMA and UFC President Dana White. Several dozen demonstrators, including members of local anti-fascist groups, gathered outside the venue in Midtown Manhattan to protest Trump's visit, some holding placards that read "Impeach Trump" and chanting "Out now!" New York Governor Andrew Cuomo tweeted "good riddance" after Trump slammed local officials for treating him badly despite his paying what he said were "millions" in taxes there. Trump's visit was his first to New York since announcing he was moving his permanent residence from Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Flanked by key Republican lawmakers and his sons, Eric and Don Jr., Trump stood up and waved to the 20,000-strong crowd from his seat just feet from the octagon.Ī chorus of boos echoed from the upper reaches of the arena, while mostly cheers and chants of "USA" came from the sections closest to the president and his entourage.įor Trump, the visit was a welcome break from a House of Representatives impeachment probe of allegations he withheld aid from Ukraine to pressure authorities there to investigate his political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.Īt a rally on Friday in Mississippi, Trump said an "angry majority" of voters would support him against impeachment, a day after the Democratic-controlled House voted formally to lay out the rules of the inquiry.
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