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Report: Holyfield says 'I'm not broke'

ATLANTA (UPI) -- Former world heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield says he is not broke.

Reports this week said Holyfield is behind in child-support payments and that his 109-room mansion on 235 acres in Fairburn, Ga. ,was in foreclosure.

"I'm not broke. I'm just not liquid," the former three-time champion told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Friday.

"I do feel kind of sad because things have always been positive and now everybody wants to jump on me like I'm the worst person in the world and I went out and blew all my money."

Holyfield said "everything is all right with the house now" but did not elaborate.

The property is worth an estimated $20 million.

The mother of one of Holyfield's 11 children has filed a petition for contempt in Fayette County (Ga.) Superior Court, alleging that he is behind on his child-support payments.

Copyright 2008 by United Press International

This news arrived on: 06/06/2008

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