Lewis vs Bowe: Who would have won in the pros?

I view many of Lewis' wins as being very impressive and he could beat almost
anyone. And boxers can get outboxed, and brawlers can be outbrawled.
Manny Steward commented on the Lewis Mercer fight as a fight that was stylewise
something of a stalemate, and it came down to who could dig down deeper.
I believe Bowe wanted the victory more, to avenge what he felt
was a bs loss in the olympics.

 

Does that make you a Bowe hater because you sway with the Lewis brigade?

Or do you just call people "Lewis haters" because you have no case to prove them wrong?

There's no hating when calling a spade a spade.

Lewis deliberately hogged the clock knowing Bowe was under a time limit from the WBC , who Lewis was in cahoots with at the time.

He was refusing the normal split for challenger vs titlist. The facts don't make people "haters". They just upset Lewis fanboys.

 

As Bowe said himself.

"Lewis knew I owed him one"

 

Interestingly enough could be Bowe the one who comes out looking to end it early.
May have been a short fight with fireworks. Lewis isn't Foreman though.

 

Dino - no, I'm not a Bowe hater, nor do I call people "Lewis haters" automatically if they take a contrary view to my own - ETM & Sangria hold a view that is pro-Bowe in this discussion & I haven't criticised their views.

As I said in the post you've quoted, some pro-Bowe views expressed in this thread are so far wide of the truth, I can't be bothered to answer them one by one...I'm sure as a knowledgeable guy you can see that some posters spin things so far and claim things that are so far from the truth that the only explanation can be a (scarcely) hidden agenda.

By the way, I'm interested in your views of what I posted in my earlier contributions to the thread?

 

You should research this more, cause Lewis definitely never priced himself out of this fight, in fact at one point Newman offered Lewis 10% of the pursue. As for what you envision or don't envision the fact is Lewis is an ATG 10 fighter and Bowe isn't. He might have become one had he taken this fight and beat Lewis. If you're not sure who thought who was going to win, just look at the actions taken by the fighters and their managers. It pretty much tells the story.

 

That explains why he threw the belt in the garbage rather than honor the contract he signed.

 

Not a boxing fan I take it, you just slammed the two best heavyweights over the last 20 years.

 

I was going to reply to some of the comments made and came to the same conclusion. This thread is strictly a Bowe love in thread and many of the comments aren't worthy of a reply, especially when terms like glass-jaw or Lemmie are being used. It's beyond childish.

 

I call them hates when they resort to name calling only one of the fighters being discussed. How else would you interrupt this?

And what's the point of replying if someone doesn't have the intelligence to put together a solid analysis and has to resort to name calling?

 

I would welcome a reference to this assertion.

 

a most excellent post

 

You mean the second and third best heavyweights. they were better than the 80s heavyweights Page, Dokes, Coetzee, Weaver, P. Thomas, but below the cream of the crop Holmes, Bowe

Lewis' reign tho fairly lengthy, was like a Lady Gaga song; you cant remember it after 5 minutes

 

This was taken from Bowe's Wikipedia profile.



Only a couple of weeks earlier in London, Bowe's old Olympic rival Lennox Lewis knocked out Canadian Donovan "Razor" Ruddock in 2 rounds, establishing himself as the WBC's #1 contender. The Bowe/Holyfield and Lewis/Ruddock fights were part of a mini-tournament where all four fighters agreed that the two winners would meet each other for the championship. Bowe's manager Rock Newman made a proposal that the $32 million purse HBO were offering be split 90-10 in Bowe's favor, an "absurd" offer which Lewis rejected.[7] Lewis's manager Frank Maloney rejected another offer of $2 million for Lewis to fight on a Bowe undercard, citing his distrust of the Bowe camp after the aforementioned negotiations. So in a move that would hurt Bowe's image he held a press conference in which he dumped the WBC belt in a trash can rather than fight Lewis.[8]

 

Holmes wasn't at his best in the '90's and Bowe self destructed.