From reliable sources, former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe is about to goad former champ Lennox Lewis out of retirement to finally settle a long-standing feud that dates back to the 1988 Olympics. "The Ultimate Showdown" could forge an estimated $15 to $20 million for each combatant, while possibly spring-boarding the winner to a showdown with IBF/WBO/IBO champion Wladimir Klitschko.
This all started back when Lewis was on set in New York for Donald Trump's reality TV show, "The Apprentice", and Riddick Bowe came on the set and started heckling Lewis. Mr. Trump jokingly suggested them to take their quarrel into the boxing ring, and that is exactly what they have agreed to do with 'certain' boxing promotions pulling the strings.
Stay tuned for more information!!
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HeavyHitters wrote:From reliable sources, former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe is about to goad former champ Lennox Lewis out of retirement to finally settle a long-standing feud that dates back to the 1988 Olympics. "The Ultimate Showdown" could forge an estimated $15 to $20 for each combatant, while possibly spring-boarding the winner to a showdown with IBF/WBO/IBO champion Wladimir Klitschko.
This all started back when Lewis was on set in New York for Donald Trump's reality TV show, "The Apprentice", and Riddick Bowe came on the set and started heckling Lewis. Mr. Trump jokingly suggested them to take their quarrel into the boxing ring, and that is exactly what they have agreed to do with 'certain' boxing promotions pulling the strings.
Stay tuned for more information!!
ZZZZZZZZZZ the fight's a decade too late to be of any interest, I hope Lewis has got more nouse than to tempted back in the ring
HeavyHitters wrote:From reliable sources, former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe is about to goad former champ Lennox Lewis out of retirement to finally settle a long-standing feud that dates back to the 1988 Olympics. "The Ultimate Showdown" could forge an estimated $15 to $20 for each combatant, while possibly spring-boarding the winner to a showdown with IBF/WBO/IBO champion Wladimir Klitschko.
This all started back when Lewis was on set in New York for Donald Trump's reality TV show, "The Apprentice", and Riddick Bowe came on the set and started heckling Lewis. Mr. Trump jokingly suggested them to take their quarrel into the boxing ring, and that is exactly what they have agreed to do with 'certain' boxing promotions pulling the strings.
Stay tuned for more information!!
ZZZZZZZZZZ the fight's a decade too late to be of any interest, I hope Lewis has got more nouse than to tempted back in the ring
100% correct.
Bowe must have run out of money or something.
I can't see Lewis entertaining it; he has nothing to prove against anybody, especially man who wasn't man enough to fight when they were both in their primes, yet continually hurled insults like a school bully.
HeavyHitters wrote:From reliable sources, former heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe is about to goad former champ Lennox Lewis out of retirement to finally settle a long-standing feud that dates back to the 1988 Olympics. "The Ultimate Showdown" could forge an estimated $15 to $20 for each combatant, while possibly spring-boarding the winner to a showdown with IBF/WBO/IBO champion Wladimir Klitschko.
This all started back when Lewis was on set in New York for Donald Trump's reality TV show, "The Apprentice", and Riddick Bowe came on the set and started heckling Lewis. Mr. Trump jokingly suggested them to take their quarrel into the boxing ring, and that is exactly what they have agreed to do with 'certain' boxing promotions pulling the strings.
Stay tuned for more information!!
ZZZZZZZZZZ the fight's a decade too late to be of any interest, I hope Lewis has got more nouse than to tempted back in the ring
100% correct.
Bowe must have run out of money or something.
I can't see Lewis entertaining it; he has nothing to prove against anybody, especially man who wasn't man enough to fight when they were both in their primes, yet continually hurled insults like a school bully.
If he won't come back for Vitali, he won't come back for Riddick.
Bowe don't even knw whether he actually doing these days, let alone who or when he will be boxing next. His comebakc has been on/off more times than light-switch.
Lennox has no desire or intention to come back. He's got a family now, lots of money, lives a life of luxury probably. No need to tarnish his career by coming back.
Lewis is interviewed in GQ this month saying he's been offered up to $40m for a comeback, when it reaches $50m he'll take off his PJ's, whatever that means.
Lewis is interviewed in GQ this month saying he's been offered up to $40m for a comeback, when it reaches $50m he'll take off his PJ's, whatever that means.
Doubt this would happen, Lewis would destroy Bowe now.
Boxing is not the place for cowards, especially ones with big mouths like Bowe.
Calling Bowe a coward is a pathetic statement. Watch his fights v Holyfield and Golota. They're the reason he's walking on his heels today.
He WAS a coward for not fighting Lewis!
I don't care what else he did in his career, for that once occasion in his career, he was a coward!
Let's get this straight, Bowe threw his belt into a rubbish bin instead of fighting Lewis, who was his mandatory. If that's not a coward, I dunno
what the fck is!
On this same, rather bizarre theme, keep an eye out for Torquay's Gareth Hogg in Oz tonight, where he takes on Thai southpaw Komgrit Nanakorn in a 12-rounder.
Hogg, you will remember, 'went missing' prior to a challenge for the British light-heavyweight title held by Brockley nightmare Peter Oboh in Torquay in October 2006 and emerged Down Under and has apparently impressed in sparring sessions with Anthony Mundine and Paul Briggs. He's a puncher, with seven of his 11 victims taken out, and lost only to Matthew Barney in 13 outings in a four-rounder in 1999 on points. It was Hogg's second pro fight (Barney was 6-0) and he's reeled off 10 wins and a draw since, including a six-round decision over Neil Simpson in February 2006 in Plymouth for probably his best win.
Hogg, incidentally, was not the first man to duck out of fighting Oboh. In fact, he joined a long list of mandatory challengers to do so. Ironically, Oboh himself later walked out on a fight with Tony Oakey. The bigger they are, the flakier.
DIRT SUGAR wrote:
Calling Bowe a coward is a pathetic statement. Watch his fights v Holyfield and Golota. They're the reason he's walking on his heels today.
He WAS a coward for not fighting Lewis!
I don't care what else he did in his career, for that once occasion in his career, he was a coward!
Let's get this straight, Bowe threw his belt into a rubbish bin instead of fighting Lewis, who was his mandatory. If that's not a coward, I dunno
what the fck is!
Well said.
This time in 1993, Bowe -v- Lewis was the most anticipated HW fight for many years.
It was the most natural fight of the time & probably would have been a classic, yet after years of insulting Lewis; when it came time to put up, Bowe ran like Carl Lewis & threw his hard fought world title belt into the bin.
Lewis will destroy Bowe if it ever happens. Bowe struggled to beat Billy Zumbrun 3 years ago (weighing 280)! In fact most thought he got a gift decision. Lewis wouldn't even have to train a day to beat him right now.