{"id":139032,"date":"2015-04-20T08:10:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T15:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=139032"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:35:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:35:59","slug":"bas-rutten-almost-fought-evander-holyfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bas-rutten-almost-fought-evander-holyfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Bas Rutten &#8216;I Almost Fought Evander Holyfield&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rutten.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-139033\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rutten.png\" alt=\"rutten\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rutten.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rutten-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rutten-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/rutten-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The MMA legend Bas Rutten recently spoke on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lt2o1wkM5-M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Submission Radio<\/a> and revealed that a pretty big super fight almost happened.<\/p>\n<p>Rutten says he was close to fighting boxer Evander Holyfield!<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I was almost actually fighting Holyfield at one time. Evander Holyfield. Yeah, kickboxing match. But then they called me and they suddenly said &#8216;no more knees&#8217;. And then they called me like a week later again &#8216;no more low kicks&#8217;. They started taking all the weapons away. It was hilarious, but then he chose to get back into boxing. But that was pretty close to happening.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Who would have won?<\/p>\n<p>By: <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/author\/ryan-miller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryan C. Miller<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryancmiller1630\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ryancmiller1630 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The MMA legend Bas Rutten recently spoke on Submission Radio and revealed that a pretty big super fight almost happened. Rutten says he was close to fighting boxer Evander Holyfield! &#8220;I was almost actually fighting Holyfield at one time. Evander Holyfield. Yeah, kickboxing match. But then they called me and they suddenly said &#8216;no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":139033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10086],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bas Rutten &#039;I Almost Fought Evander Holyfield&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bas Rutten says he was almost involved in a huge super fight. 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