Holyfield, Moorer have different takes on first fight

 LAS VEGAS (AP)-- In Evander Holyfield's mind, he beat himself the last time he fought Michael Moorer.
 Talk to Moorer and you'll get an entirely different story.
 "People were worried about his shoulder and his heart problems," Moorer said. "They forget the fact that I won the fight."
 Moorer did indeed win the fight when he ad Holyfield first got together a little more than three years ago.
 It wasn't by much -- a majority decision over 12 rounds -- and it wasn't pretty, but it did give Moorer two pieces of the heavyweight title until he got knocked out by George Foreman in his first title defense.
 Now, as Holyfield and Moorer meet for the same IBF and WBA crowns on Saturday, they both have different versions of what happened the first time they met April 22, 1994.
 "I felt I won, and I felt it even more when I watched the tapes," Holyfield said. "But if I lost I beat myself the last fight. He wasn't doing anything and I wasn't doing anything."
 Holyfield said after the fight he was bothered by a painful left shoulder, and a few days later he was in an Atlanta hospital where doctors diagnosed him with a heart ailment.
 After he knocked Moorer down in the second round, Holyfield seemed perplexed by the left-handed heavyweight and allowed Moorer to win the fight by dominating with his right jab.
 "I couldn't raise my left shoulder and he hit me with the jab," Holyfield said. "I made a decision after the second round that I wasn't going to get to him so I didn't go after him the rest of the way."
 Holyfield's medical problems and Moorer's subsequent knockout loss to Foreman have left Moorer feeling a little put out about his place in boxing history.
 Though Moorer came back to win the IBF crown, he will bring into the ring Saturday in a fight with Axel Schulz, he has looked tentative ever since Foreman's short right hand knocked him flat in the 10th round of a fight he was winning easily.
 "People who know boxing know I've been cheated out of it," Moorer said. "But I got the victory and I got some titles out of it, so I'm not worried about it."
 Holyfield is a 12-5 favorite to win the rematch in his first fight since his two huge fights against Mike Tyson. If he needed motivation for Moorer after the emotional buildup for the Tyson fights, he found it in the last 10 seconds of his first fight with Moorer.
 It was then that Moorer raised his arms in victory three years ago and seemed to mock the proud Holyfield. It was then that Holyfield really wanted to fight -- something he admittedly didn't do much of during the previous 11-plus rounds.
 "As bad as I felt that whole fight, the one time I got excited was when the match was almost over and he raised his hands," Holyfield recalled. "That made me angry. I couldn't believe he raised his hands after not doing anything in the fight. If I had only had one more minute with him."
 Holyfield didn't have another minute, and in a few more minutes he didn't have the WBA and IBF heavyweight titles he had worn into the ring with him.
 "I felt bad because I did it to myself," Holyfield said. "I beat myself that last fight. If he wasn't doing anything in the ring, I did nothing. It never dawned in my head what I was doing, but I got frustrated because he was a guy who didn't come in to win."
 The loss not only cost Holyfield the heavyweight titles he had won back in a bruising fight with Riddick Bowe in his previous fight, it appeared to end his career.
 Now, with his wins over Tyson assuring himself of a premium spot in boxing history, Holyfield wants to take care of some old business with Moorer, the only fighter who beat him that he hasn't beaten.
 It's part of a plan that could see him fight WBC champion Lennox Lewis in the spring to unify all three parts of the heavyweight title before possibly retiring at the age of 35.