Evander Holyfield vs. Carlos De León was a professional boxing match contested for the undisputed cruiserweight championship.

[3] The WBC would soon follow suit with the WBA and IBF and agreed to reduce their weight limit back to 190 pounds, which it would remain until 2003, when all four major sanctioning bodies (including the WBO) moved the weight limit up to 200 pounds.

In the eight round, the fight would come to an end after Holyfield landed 20 unanswered punches as De León offered no offense, referee Mills Lane stopped the fight, giving Holyfield a technical knockout victory at 1:08 of the round.

[5] At the postfight news conference, when Holyfield was asked "Evander, you hit DeLeon a couple of hundred times with clean shots and you didn't knock him down.

his trainer, Lou Duva replied "Hey, hasn't it occurred to you that this guy had a pretty good chin?"