By Dan Ambrose: 48-year-old Evander Holyfield (43-10-2, 28 KO’s) will continue his chase after another heavyweight title shot on Saturday when he takes on little known journeyman fighter Sherman Williams (34-11-2, 19 KO’s) in a 10 round bout a The Greenbrier, in White Suphur Springs, West Virginia. This isn’t a fight that will be shown on HBO or Showtime, as Holyfield is far removed from fighting on those networks nowadays as his boxing skills have badly declined.

Holyfield still hopes to get a title shot against the Klitschkos or David Haye, and says that he’s the same fighter he was at 38 and 28. It’s hard to believe that looking at Holyfield’s last fight against Francois Botha last year in April. In that fight, Holyfield’s work rate was poor, his accuracy awful and seemed only capable of landing one punch at a time. Sure, Holyfield would throw two or three, but he’d almost always miss with two of three or three out of four of his shots against the stationary Botha.

The thing is Botha was there to be hit and yet Holyfield still missed. The bounce in his legs were all but gone and his hand speed has badly deteriorated. To Holyfield’s credit, he did show that he still has good power when he dropped Botha with a single right hand in the 8th round. However, when the action resumed, Holyfield still ending up missing several shots before putting Botha away with a right hand that caused the referee to step in and halt the fight.

At this age, Holyfield should have been long retired from the sport. Getting hit in the head at his age is something that you have to worry about, because he’s already had tons of wars in the past during his 27-year pro career. Holyfield says he doesn’t need the money but you have wonder what’s keeping him in the sport.