Rid**** Big Daddy Bowe "Headlines the HOF class

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Amateur highlights
Amateur Record: 104-18

1983 at United States Junior Championships, as a middleweight, lost to Adolpho Washington by 2nd round TKO
1985 Junior World Champion as a light heavyweight, in competition in Bucharest. Defeated Péter Hart of Hungary in final.
1987 Heavyweight Bronze Medalist at Pan-American Games in Indianapolis. Lost to Jorge Luis Gonzalez on points
1988 Super Heavyweight Silver Medalist at 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. Results were:
Defeated Biko Botowamungu (Zaire, Congo) KO 2
Defeated Peter Hrivnak (Czechoslovakia) TKO 1
Defeated Alex Miroshnichenko (Soviet Union) points
Lost to Lennox Lewis (Canada) TKO by 2






World heavyweight champion
Main articles: Evander Holyfield vs. Rid**** Bowe, Rid**** Bowe vs. Michael Dokes, Rid**** Bowe vs. Jesse Ferguson and Rid**** Bowe vs. Evander Holyfield II
In November 1992 he fought reigning champ Evander Holyfield for the undisputed heavyweight title. With his heart and dedication still in question, Bowe won a unanimous decision in an entertaining fight, even flooring Holyfield in the 11th. However, it was the 10th round that most boxing fans will remember. The epic and brutal back and forth exchanges helped make it Ring Magazine's "Round of the Year." Commentator Al Bernstein exclaimed, ""That was one of the greatest rounds in heavyweight history. Period!"

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.[8] 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.[9]

Bowe's first defense of his remaining titles came on February 6, 1993 when he fought 34-year-old former champion Michael Dokes at Madison Square Garden and knocked him out in the first round. In Bowe's next fight, May 22, 1993 at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., he knocked out Jesse Ferguson in the second round to retain the title. This set up a rematch with Evander Holyfield.

In the rematch with Holyfield, Bowe looked overweight. He had entered training camp at a 266 lbs and weighed in at 246 lbs, eleven pounds heavier than in the first fight with Holyfield.[10]

Bowe and Holyfield exchanged hard punches, but Bowe ended up losing the belts to Holyfield by a majority decision. This fight was also known for a bizarre stunt in which parachutist James "Fan Man" Miller dropped into the open air arena, landing in the ropes by Bowe's corner. This surreal scene delayed the fight in the 7th round.





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Ray "Boom Boom "Mancini

and "Prince "Naseem Hamed

 

But yet he is ..Personally I didn't think he was Hall of a Fame worthy

 

Why is Bowe's first name censored ?

 

Had him and LL met in the pros how do you think it would have went down ?