Mitt Romney is stepping into the ring with former World Heavyweight Champion Evander Holyfield.
The 68-year-old former Republican Party presidential nominee is joining Mr. Holyfield for a charity event that aims to bring medical care to impoverished areas around the globe.
“It will either be a very short fight, or I will be knocked unconscious,” Mr. Romney told the Salt Lake Tribune on Monday.
The Charity Vision bout will take place May 15 at the Rail Event Center in Salt Lake City.
“We just thought it would be a lot better to provide this kind of entertainment rather than just have dinner and listen to speakers,” Mr. Romney the newspaper reported.
Charity Vision is a nonprofit organization that works with medical suppliers to encourage them to donate cutting-edge equipment to developing nations. The technology is donated to doctors and facilities on the condition that half the services they provide are works of charity.
The organization’s president, Salt Lake physician Bill Jackson, was inspired to start the nonprofit in 1986 while working in the Philippines for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Douglas Ernst can be reached at dernst@washingtontimes.com.
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