Cast your mind back... Yes Floyd was offered $5 mil to fight Margarito, he was also offered $5 mil to fight the clown that somehow beat Zab Judah. Carlos Baldimir.. Margarito had just demolished Cotto making him Quit on his knees & that just scared the bejabbers out of Floyd. If you've seen the videos of Margarito walking up to Floyd to simply ask " Why wont you fight me" Floyd went practically hysterical Blabbering like Daffy Duck he was literally terrified. Instead Floyd fought Baldimir for the same $5mil claiming he didn't know who Margarito was ROFLMAO !! Floyd knew whjo he was that day didn't he . That was NOT when he fought Oscar. Who had bragged he wanted the winner of Cotto-Margarito 1 as his farewell fight too , as he put it, Go out in a blaze of glory . He soon changed his mind too LOL. Pac & KARMA did what Margarito would have done to Oscar anyway lol Watch those videos Floyd knew darn well who Margarito was he literally made him **** himself in fear in front of the world ROFL. Don't forget Floyd then faced Judah who Baldimir had already beaten. anyone but the monster Margarito huh. They had to railroad an innocent man so they wouldn't be forced to fight him
OK, so who are the five best heavyweights of that era, and why are they he best? Who are the five best of all time, and again why?
As for your claim you saw knowledgeable guys give that rematch to Holyfield LOL Ive seen paid judges hand in absolutely ludicrous scorecards in fights & yet they STILL hold on to their jobs HOW!!!!! ?? Why don't the Commissions weed them out ?? You don't have to be Einstein to realize what is going on surely
Lol this is pure fantasy. Futch would have laughed his head off watching an early 90s Lewis. I suspect the fight did not happen because of the 2 utter clown novice managers involved. Say what you want about King but he’d have sorted that fight.
Not the point. You said he never fought guys like Butler who could crack. Here you go mate, I'm going to help you out here, Copy and paste this. 'Oh yes. I was wrong. My bad.' You need it quite often and it'll save you constantly coming across as a tit.
The winners of Lewis-Ruddock and Bowe-Holyfield 1 in Oct/Nov 92’ were supposed to fight each other. After winning, Bowe signed a huge deal with Time Warner & TVKO and reneged on the previous agreement. My guess is that Bowe & Newman wanted to milk it for as long as possible and make big money against soft (or perceived soft) opposition. Michael Dokes & Jesse Ferguson were horribly overmatched, and Holyfield was believed to be too shopworn going into the rematch. Bowe & Newman most likely knew Lennox was a risky bout and wanted to milk it for all it’s worth. Similar thing we saw later with crap like Mayweather-Pacquiao and Crawford-Spence. But in this case, Lewis-Bowe didn’t happen years too late. It just plain didn’t happen.
Your right Floyd was only offered 5mil to fight Margarito and it was 8mil he was offered to fight Baldomir who was undefeated for 8 years. Mayweather also made a public statement that he was no longer on his A game and his B game was fading meaning his body had been falling apart for a long time. When Margarito came around asking to jump the line FMM turned him down because Floyd knew he was on his way out and he was looking for peydays. The most I can make of it was really bad timing for Margarito but in absolutely in no way did FMM duck Margarito! As I said before and you said aswell, 5mil for Margarito or 25Mil to fight ODLH one of goats?
Exactly. They wanted the fight to happen eventually. Just wanted it to be a big super fight. Bowe fought Dokes and on the undercard was Mercer vs Ferguson. The plan was for Bowe to beat Dokes and fight Mercer but Ferguson upset Mercer so Bowe fought Ferguson instead
Bowe was victimized by his scumbag manager. True, Bowe was very dumb for following his advice on the trash can. Lewis was offered 13 million to fight Bowe (I believe it was around the time of Holyfield III) and Lewis turned it down....a fight most people (incluing me) think Lennox would have won at the time. So Lennox did what could be construed as pussillanimous things, too. Let's not just pile it up on Bowe. And absolutely, Lewis is by far the greater ATG. Hands down.
I was trying to be nice to him because I thought he was new poster, but now I see pattern with his posts.