It's a name that revolves around the orbit of one of the most notorious moments in sport.
To this day, the 1997 WBA Heavyweight title fight rematch which saw Mike Tyson bite off a part of Evander Holyfield's ear still lives on in the collective memory.
But what is perhaps less well remembered are the events leading up to Holyfield's original fight with Tyson and that story is told in new ESPN 30 for 30 documentary called Chasing Tyson.
And tonight on Off The Ball, Holyfield himself joined Ger to talk about the doc and his own remarkable career.
"My goal at 8-years-old, they said I could be the heavyweight champion of the world if you don't quit, and so I wasn't really chasing Tyson. I was chasing the title. So whoever had the title, that's who I wanted the fight," he said.
Tyson bites Holyfield in their 1997 rematch (AP Photo/Jack Smith, File)
Holyfield eventually became a heavyweight champion four times but his upbringing had its difficulties, although his mother provided a strong support system.
"I was very appreciative of my mother. I'm glad that I had someone who loved me and to tell me the mistakes that she made and didn't want me to make the same mistakes that she made," he said.
"My mother told me that 'son, I got bad habits, I want you to do what I say and not what I do' and the truth is I didn't understand that at the time as a kid. But as an adult, it is true that many people don't tell their kids the truth and the kids make the same mistakes."
Holyfield says that influence of his mother helped him on the road to becoming an Olympic medallist in 1984 at the Los Angeles games.
Holyfield also spoke about the rumblings of the chase to fight Tyson, having sparred with him before the '84 Olympics, before he made the step up to the heavyweight ranks, via the Omega Project.
"They came up with the Omega Project and they chose that we fight all the guys that Tyson wanted to fight and we'd give them a little bit more money just to fight us, to put me into a position to be able to fight Tyson."
However, there was a spanner in the works as the unheralded Buster Douglas shocked the world in Tokyo by beating Tyson in a title fight in 1990, although Holyfield's main aim was still the belt, which he managed to take by defeating Douglas in October of that year.
"My goal wasn't to get in boxing [to see] how much money I would make. My goal was to get into boxing to be the very best," he said on having to fight Douglas for the title rather than Tyson.
Before eventually facing Tyson for the first time in 1996, Holyfield saw the title slip in and out of his grasp including in bouts with Riddick Bowe, while Tyson was in jail for much of that time.
But Holyfield also faced health issues, namely being diagnosed with a heart condition in 1994, which led to him announcing his retirement, before returning to the ring a year later.
"They had me checked again and found that my heart was right. I did recover from whatever it was and I became champion two more times," he said.
And in 1996, the first Tyson fight finally happened as the two faced off in Las Vegas, with Holyfield winning and becoming the first person since Muhammad Ali to win the heavyweight title three times.
"The time that I fought Tyson, I wasn't shocked. I think it shocked a lot of people: 'Wow, who in the world could think he can beat Mike Tyson?' And I did."
It set up the rematch one year later in which Tyson bit his ear - not just the once - and speaking of that crazy moment, Holyfield chuckled, "It's obvious that I knew because I jumped up so high. You knew something had happened."
While admitted that he wouldn't go so far as to say that he and Tyson are friends now, Holyfield says that they are "acquaintances, we talk and do things together".
Holyfield also responded to allegations made about the use of performance enhancing drugs, saying: "I never entered the ring with [a] substance in my body. The fact of the matter is I'm the most tested athlete ever."
Listen to the full interview on the podcast.
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