Damn dawg Heavyweight boxer Evander Holyfield has been accused of assaulting his wife.
Candi Holyfield has reportedly filed a temporary protective order against her husband after he allegedly hit his wife in the face during an argument on the morning of February 1.
Court documents showed that a row erupted between them after Candi, 30, complained about the heating being switched off at the $10million mansion in the US state of Georgia.
A source close to the former world champion said Evander, 47, was told about the order by his managers as he was due to fly home from Las Vegas today.
They also claimed that Candi, Evander’s third wife, is now seeking a divorce from her husband of almost seven years.
Speaking to celebrity gossip website RadarOnline, the source said: ‘Evander was in Las Vegas and is due to fly back to Georgia early today. It came as a total shock to him that Candi had filed the order.
‘As soon as he heard about it he contacted her by telephone and told her that he wanted to try and save their marriage and that he would go to counseling with her.’
But the source added that Candi was already making arrangements to move out of the mansion, and Evander has reportedly been advised by his managers to stay away from her or be held in contempt of court.
They added: ‘They are all hoping that she will cool off and that they can stay together because the truth is that he cannot afford another divorce right now.’
Candi and Evander married in July 2003 and have two children together aged six and four.
The details of the argument that led to the alleged assault were detailed in the court order in which Candi complained to Evander that it was too cold inside their sprawling home, which boasts 109 rooms including 17 bathrooms.
In the restraining order, she wrote that he accused her of only thinking of herself and being disrespectful when she pulled the covers over her head to end the discussion.
The deeply-religious boxer than said she needed to ‘start putting God first’ and then began arguing about payments made to their church.
Candi claimed that when she refused to show him the cheque stubs of her payments, Holyfield hit her in the face on the back of the head twice and on her back also.
Candi also claimed her husband had been violent to her before and had choked and hit her and threw a bottle of water at her, incidents that took place in front of their children.
The former nurse claimed: ‘In 2008 he choked me in front of our daughter and house keeper. In 2009 he has hit me in front of the children. He has grabbed me in front of the children. A couple of weeks ago he threw a bottle of water at me.’
Holyfield, who goes by the nickname ‘The Real Deal’ is the only boxer to win the heavyweight title four times with estimated winnings of more than £127 million.
His last fight was against Russian Nikolai Valuvev in Zurich, Switzerland in December 2008 which he lost.
He was scheduled to fight South African Francois Botha on February 20 at Mandela National Stadium in Kampala but there are now plans to move it to the US in March.
But Evander will forever be associated with his match against Mike Tyson in 1997 during which Tyson famously bit off the top part of Holyfield’s ear and spat it out onto the canvas.
