Where's Rock Newman nowadays?

Yeah Bowe had mental issues

 

Bowe vs. Golota = Biggest match up of crazy people ever?

 

As searing as such moments were for Newman, nothing carried the sting of growing up black in southern Maryland. That was particularly true for a young black man with crisp blue eyes and skin so fair that strangers routinely took him to be white, as they still do today. "I have seen and felt racism like most blacks have never seen," says Newman. "Raw, naked, nasty racism. People let their true feelings out around me, not knowing who I am. Guys talking on and on about '******s.' I've heard it all." And he is not alone. The whole Newman clan could pass for white—Gertrude says the four grandparents also looked Caucasian—but the family is black, Newman says, and he is fervently proud of the heritage, often wearing traditional African garb. "That is what I am," he says. "That is my culture. That is my history. That is my upbringing. That is my soul."
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1138261/3/index.htm

 

Hes still a white guy. He just thinks hes black. Black people dont have the characteristics that he does, there is definitely white in him and more than black. :hey

 

Desperately looking for another avenue to Holyfield, Newman found himself last spring sitting in a conference room in the Manhattan offices of HBO. Newman had been carrying on a long battle with the cable giant, believing that Seth Abraham, president of Time Warner Sports, had been patronizing toward him and his fighter, offering them piddling sums of money. Abraham disagrees. "When Riddick started to fight on HBO, Rock had one value that he thought Riddick should be paid, and we had another," he says. "It was never patronizing. I think he misread what we do here. This is not the Salvation Army for handouts."

The tension between Newman and Abraham culminated in that conference room, where they were meeting to iron out a deal for a fight between Bowe and South African-born Pierre Coetzer, then the World Boxing Association's No. 1-ranked heavyweight challenger. The fight would be offered as a cofeature with the junior welterweight title bout between Pernell Whitaker and Rafael Pineda on July 18, 1992. The meeting began poorly when Abraham offered $400,000 for Bowe, and it descended steadily from there. Newman ranted at the offer. "This is an insult!" he said. "You are disrespecting me. You arc disrespecting Riddick!"

"Rock!" Abraham said. "Pernell Whitaker is fighting for the title! Who ever heard of Pierre Coetzer in the U.S.? You're the cofeature. You're getting exposure. And I don't think $400,000 is insulting!"

Newman became increasingly agitated. Abraham's voice rose. The dialogue grew so heated and profane that the seven other people in the room sat listening in stunned, awkward silence. "It was like two rhinos," Abraham says. "Everybody moved out of the way."
edric Kushner, Coetzer's promoter, watched in disbelief. "I've had nicer meetings with my enemies," he says.

The whole deal nearly blew up entirely when Abraham finally said, "Putting a Bowe-Coetzer fight on in July will add not one rating point to Whitaker-Pineda."

That did it. Newman jumped from his chair, his face wine red, and bolted for the door. Kushner chased him, fearing Newman would blow the deal. He almost did. "Screw 'em!" Newman said. It took some mollifying by Kushner before Newman decided to return to the room, but return he did. When Abraham raised the offer to $650,000, Newman grudgingly agreed. "It still wasn't enough," he says.
from the same article

 

Ive read that article, and people should read in to this to really know the truth about the whole Bowe Lewis supposed ducking deal. Newman did a good job negotiating on Bowe's behalf, but Riddick has since accused him of stealing from him. Regardless Newman was trying t maximize Bowe's time at the top and people need to realize that was a big factor in Bowe vacating the WBC title.

 

his speed was what i think made him special. his a - b speed was hard to time. i remember there was a poll of who was the fastest heavyweight out there right now (now being middish 2007) and most said briggs through the fastest shots....if he had th estamina to throw them and wasnt musclebound so that he couldnt do **** all. but he has/had incredible handspeed

 

yep reading the article it sort of makes sense.he should have made the bowe/LL fight and agreed to leave the wbc out of it

 

If he made the fight he would have defended the WBC title. His beef was with the WBC not Lewis and not really to avoid Lewis. Instead Bowe signed a seven fight deal, which was pinned as the richest heavyweight contract to date worth a potential 100 million. Lewis was factored in to that contract down the line.

 

didn't floyd recently fight for the wbo title but refuse to pay them and take the belt

 

Probably, but in the case of Bowe, it was more the WBC's president, Jose Suliaman's relationship with Don King. It started long before the whole Lewis Bowe blowout, with King aligning Razor Ruddock as the mandatory contender as well as most of the top contenders who fought for the WBC belt in the early 90's. They were all King promoted fighters. Bowe got his shot against Holyfield because of his WBA ranking which was achieved when he beat Pierre Coetzer for the #1 mandatory spot. Holyfied chose Bowe as his defense instead of the WBC fighter. I think Newman and Bowe never had any intentions of fighting the WBC's mandated contender whether it was Lennox Lewis or Bozo the clown.

 

Rock Newman's designated ethnicity is an odd one what as for all intents and purposes you'd think he was totally white. I also and I mean this in no way as disrespect looks like a dwarf.

Anyone know how tall he is?

 

I don't care if he was white, black, green, yellow or blue......

His ego was overinflated (short man's syndrome?)

He made Bowe a ton of $$ but in any interview I ever saw he seemed like an A$$. Who can forget him grabbing Tillery from behind and flipping him over the ropes. At least he had his fighter's back.

 

He's in a fetal position in a roach motel somewhere.

 

Rock Newman was and probably still is a racist POS.