Evander “The Real Deal” Holyfield’s $10 million home in the Atlanta suburbs has been foreclosed on. The former Boxing Heavyweight Champion of the World has fallen on tough times at the age of 45, heralded by an advertisement in his local newspaper published this past Wednesday that told his estate - located on Evander Holyfield highway no less - will be auctioned off “at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash” at the Fayette County, Georgia courthouse July 1st.

Add to his mortgage troubles a mother of one of his children suing the boxer for child support and Utah based consulting company taking him to court under claims he failed to pay a half million dollar landscaping bill and it’s no wonder why Holyfield has been pining to make a comeback bid in the ring recently.

You can view Evander “The Real Deal” Holyfield’s 109 room, 54,000 square foot mansion after the jump:

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“Tyson”, the new documentary about the troubled career of boxer Mike Tyson, made its debut last week at the Cannes Film Festival. Filmmaker James Toback uses his second documentary to take an intimate look at a subject he knows well, the former Heavyweight Champion of the World. The two first met in 1987 when actor Anthony Michael Hall brought Tyson to the set of “The Pick Up Artist”, which Toback was directing. What has ensued is a 20+ year friendship culminating in the film.

There is only one interview in “Tyson”, with Tyson himself, who with a Maori tattoo surrounding his left eye, gives often shocking, profanity laced accounts of a life filled with enormous ups and downs. Stories of becoming Heavyweight Champ, blowing through $300-400 Million, being convicted of raping ex-wife Robin Givens (a charge denied by both Tyson and Toback), and biting Evander Holyfield’s ear of, not once, but twice are all recounted by the former boxer.

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