Riddick Bowe's amateur career

Alister · Post by **Alister** » 08 Mar 2004, 08:26

Outside from his achievements at the 1988 Olympics, the only thing I ever heard about Riddick Bowe's amateur career is that he lost to Jorge Luis Gonzalez (1987) and Adolpho Washington (1984).
Can anyone supply me with further detalis about who he fought and what titles he won.
Tnaks a lot!

Alister

{amateur} · Post by **{amateur}** » 03 Apr 2004, 07:37

All i know is that he got the shit beaten out of him by Lennox Lewis.

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 18 Apr 2004, 06:19

I'm sure as an Amateur he fought at Light-Heavyweight for a while.

Alister · Post by **Alister** » 19 Apr 2004, 07:22

KOJOE90 wrote:I'm sure as an Amateur he fought at Light-Heavyweight for a while.

That probably right. His loss to Washington was at 165 lbs.

Alister

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 25 Apr 2004, 09:21

bollocks wrote:
Alister wrote:
KOJOE90 wrote:I'm sure as an Amateur he fought at Light-Heavyweight for a while.

That probably right. His loss to Washington was at 165 lbs.

Alister
A middleweight Bowe, can't imagine it

Me neither.

I'm sure I also read that Lennox Lewis first Amatuer fight was at Welterweight.

overhand_right · Post by **overhand_right** » 30 Apr 2004, 07:26

jesus christ!!

zurdo · Post by **zurdo** » 01 May 2004, 04:47

I think Bowe actually made the Olympic team by the skin of his teeth..He got upset in the trials
If I remember correctly He had to win ont the last day of the box-offs to get on the team ..I can't remeber who he beat to get on the team that fighters name escapes me..

Southpaw Stylist · Post by **Southpaw Stylist** » 01 May 2004, 09:20

Henry Tillman?

zurdo · Post by **zurdo** » 01 May 2004, 12:23

Southpaw Stylist wrote:Henry Tillman?

No, Henry Tillman beat Tyson at 201 pounds in 1984..
Bowe was super heavy in 88..

Southpaw Stylist · Post by **Southpaw Stylist** » 01 May 2004, 15:10

Aaah.

Southpaw Stylist · Post by **Southpaw Stylist** » 01 May 2004, 16:21

Ray Mercer.

zurdo · Post by **zurdo** » 01 May 2004, 17:23

It was actually Ray Mercers army teamate Robert Salters,,who was about 10 years older than Bowe a career military man..
Salters, to my knowledge never turned pro..

overhand_right · Post by **overhand_right** » 11 May 2004, 13:20

bowe lost a 3 rd dec to salters, but then beat him twice.

his olympic perforamnce was as follows:

Ko2 biko botowamungu
Ko1 peter hrivnak - QFs
W3 alex Miroshnichenko - SFs
Lko2 lennox lewis - Fs

lennox tried give bowe advice on one of the above fellas he was about to face and he noticed bowe seemed to have no attention span and his eyes were everywhere & restless.

ray mercer moved out of bowes room because bowe would ask him at night if he ever thought about 'defeat'.

seems like an odd fella.

reaggai · Post by **reaggai** » 13 May 2004, 09:45

I pretty sure Bowe won gold or at least medaled in the world junior championship in Bucarest,Roumania in 87 in the lightheaveyweight division.And Lennox won the superheaveyweight in the junior world championship in 83.

overhand_right · Post by **overhand_right** » 13 May 2004, 12:36

wasnt bowe a heavyweight, or even super-heavy by then?

1987 was the time the very big jorge luis gonzales wiped the floor with him.

reaggai · Post by **reaggai** » 22 May 2004, 20:10

It would be in 85 then

jamesmcdonnell · Post by **jamesmcdonnell** » 08 Jul 2004, 06:57

KOJOE90 wrote:
bollocks wrote:
Alister wrote:
That probably right. His loss to Washington was at 165 lbs.

Alister
:o A middleweight Bowe, can't imagine it :o
Me neither.

I'm sure I also read that Lennox Lewis first Amatuer fight was at Welterweight. :o

Is this a joke? I mean I know Lewis was pretty skinny as a yoot' byt surely not that Skinny? Seeing as he weighed 235 and was very lean by his early 20's, he must have been a very young amateur to be a welterweight...

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 08 Jul 2004, 12:40

jamesmcdonnell wrote:
KOJOE90 wrote:
bollocks wrote: A middleweight Bowe, can't imagine it
Me neither.

I'm sure I also read that Lennox Lewis first Amatuer fight was at Welterweight.
Is this a joke? I mean I know Lewis was pretty skinny as a yoot' byt surely not that Skinny? Seeing as he weighed 235 and was very lean by his early 20's, he must have been a very young amateur to be a welterweight...

I'm sure I read it in Boxing news years ago, I assume Lennox was about 12, so weighing around 147lbs at 12 is still a big lad.

Alister · Post by **Alister** » 12 Oct 2004, 09:25

Latest is that I found out he beat Lou Savarese in some tournament in 1988.

Alister

locoxelbox · Post by **locoxelbox** » 13 Oct 2004, 00:20

Bowe stopped his three opponents when winning light heavy gold at the World Juniors in Bucarest, Romania in 1985. He stopped Sadovski, Sov RSC 1, Damian, Rom RSC 1 and in the final Peter Hart, Hun RSC 1. Pretty impressive!
He was US Under 19 champ that year but never won the senior title.

He claims to have had 204 wins and 7 losses but we all know how it is with amateur records and their credibilities.

In his semi-final victory over Miroshnichenko at the Olympics he got two standing eights but came back and gave the russian two or three counts to win a 3-2 decision.

davetko · Post by **davetko** » 14 Oct 2004, 22:17

he also got stopped in new york at the us championship regionals

locoxelbox · Post by **locoxelbox** » 15 Oct 2004, 00:25

Who stopped him?

davetko · Post by **davetko** » 15 Oct 2004, 07:42

Not sure who stopped him off the top of my head, but I will call a friend of mine who fought in the same tournament.

davetko · Post by **davetko** » 15 Oct 2004, 12:52

Robert Salters of the U.S. Army team stopped Bowe at the U.S. Championships