For the first time since getting his ear bit off in the ring, the now 50-year-old Evander Holyfield stood face-to-face with former "Baddest Man On The Planet," 46-year-old Mike Tyson.
However, it wasn't for a fight to end old scores, it was at a Chicago supermarket to promote Holyfield's new barbecue sauce, "reports Inquisitr.
For Tyson, who was in town to do his one-man show, he made a point to see his one-time rival.
"I just wanted to see Evander, man," Tyson said. "I love Evander. I'm forever linked with him for the rest of my life," according to Inquisitr.
Tyson's one-man show documents his meteoric rise to become heavyweight champion of the world at age 19, and his fall from grace as he was convicted of rape in the early 1990s. After a run on Broadway, Tyson took the show on tour to 36 cities, reports Inquisitr.
"The show is good," said Holyfield, who told The Associated Press he saw it in Las Vegas. "The show is showing his way of coming back, being able to come to an agreement, come to an acknowledgment of what he'd done good and what he'd done wrong and to get over it. When people don't get past their problems, they never come to an understanding."
Holyfield is still hoping to get back into the ring for a title fight against one of the Klitscho brothers, but, as CBS News reports, " unless one of them has a change of heart (as it is being reported that both are saying no to a fight) and agrees to it, his career is over."
"I'm not trying to go back and fight someone 24, 25. But the Klitschkos being 37, 38, that's my age," said Holyfield, according to CBS News.
As for the biting incident itself, Holyfield feels that Tyson (due to talking about it in his one-man show) has turned that infamous bite into something positive "because love and forgiveness is involved," according to CBS News.
"We're both at a stage in our lives where we can work together and make really a good thing happen," Tyson said. "He's a beautiful person. I've known Evander since I was 15," stated CBS News.
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