Rid**** Bowe: a fallen idol still searching for inner peace

What a great read.

Many thanks.


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Sad that everyone wants to use him, but he is not doing as bab as I thought:

"Although his fortune has dissipated, Bowe said he earns enough from public appearances and has three homes: one in New York, one in New Jersey and one in Florida, where he spends most of his time with his wife and daughter."

 

A woman applied lip gloss with a pocket mirror while waiting to take a selfie with him. She was shocked when he stood up. “Damn,” she said. “Big Daddy.”

Good read

 

Great read, until i read this part

After defeating Andrew Golota, a Pole who won the bronze medal in Seoul, in two fights best remembered for their brutality and Golota’s disqualification for low blows, Bowe quit boxing at 29. When he retired, Bowe was worth $15 million, he has said, and he spent it amply: on 10 houses, 26 cars, furs and diamonds, and monthly allowances for his large family.

 

Athletes need to take financial management classes when they retire. This **** is all too common for guys to keep repeating over and over.

 

From my understading a lot of it went up his nose as well.

 

So it wasnt just the damage he took from the ring thats got his speech slurred

 

It's definitely the punches to the head that makes him talk like that.

 

Nice article. I hope things work out for him. Pity he no longer speaks to his family though.

 

If you have never been desperately poor, you can't understand that mindset.

 

That's not true.

He caught his brain damage in Golota-Bowe 2.

 

They wouldn't listen anyway, they were never meant to have money, it's an accident. They'd be low-wage manual labor guys if pro boxing didn't exist.

 

You make it sound like he caught a cold.

 

pretty much true that its better to try than to walk away. if you try at least you know you failed or won. if you walk away that pain stays there for the rest of your life, as some famous person once said.