This just about sums up Bowe. I always thought that the first Holyfield fight Bowe might have a chance against Lewis but watching this shows his class/level.
That’s a stupid thing to say. How does watching a shot 37year old Bowe in this fight show you his class and level?
Wow...and 29 of that 44 by KO were indeed within two rounds. (and of the rest, over a dozen were inside three).
Bowe was done he should have had a fork stuck in him, but if you use as a yardstick when a fighter is washed up-in this case brain damaged-to judge how good they ever were, you know very little about boxing or physical culture. Let's take Ali against Holmes, zombified from thyroid medication & diet pills & with Parkinson's disease. He must have never been even a decent fighter, smh.
You're a saddist. Bowe might have gotten killed fighting anyone remotely good let alone Lewis at that juncture. It actually couldn't have been sanctioned.
Sadly I read recently that Bowe is s fighting later this year. He looks 65 in the photo. Hopefully it's just a pre-planned staged exabition.
I know he was shot. But take a look at a lot of his earlier fights. Apart from that one fight get against Holyfield he never showed the ability to beat a prime Lewis. One fight doesn’t make you great. Perhaps it was Newman’s fault but Bowe has to take some of the blame. He ruined his own career. It sort of reminds me of Max Baer. Even if both realty lived up to their potential Baer would run into Louis and Bowe into Lewis.
Bowe should never have listened to Newman, that guy was poison to his career and, consequently, his life. Whatever Newman had in mind around the time of the first Holy fight, Bowe should have demanded to fight Lewis. I have no doubt in my mind Riddick would have stopped the Lennox of 1991 to 1992 (the Bowe at the time being ridiculously better than McCall and Rahman put together). The payday would have been enormous, at the time every fight fan I knew was practically slobbering over that match. Perhaps the worse part is, by the time both Bowe and Lewis were completely amenable to fighting Bowe had already devolved severely as a fighter. The guy we saw beat Holyfield soundly was gone immediately after that fight, one of the most sad facts in the sports' history. Rock Newman goes down in history as one of the most terrible managers ever. I blame both him and Bowe's apparently brainless need to follow on completely wrecking the latter's chance at a truly great fight and lifetime-making payday. To say he was mismanaged would be the understatement of the century imo.
I I do believe that the Bowe of the first Holyfield fight could beat the Lewis from the same period. But their peaks were years apart and so different. Bowe like a shooting star Lewis had a longer run. For a very short period Bowe looked the goods but came apart very quickly.