The heavyweight title fight between champion Evander...
The heavyweight title fight between champion Evander Holyfield and George Foreman will be sanctioned by the International Boxing Federation.
The IBF had ruled earlier that the winner of the Holyfield-Buster Douglas fight, in which Holyfield scored a third-round knockout Oct. 25, would have to make a first defense against former champion Mike Tyson.
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