Rid**** Bowe explains why he threw WBC belt in the trash & didn't fight Lennox Lewis

Hilarious. You had no retort to that post whatsoever.

Dino>>>> Long Count. The End.

 

I'm as big a Lewis fan as there is. But are you sure about this?

 

Dino is Bowe's illegitimate child Big Daddy's Big Baby lol.

 

I enjoyed that. Thanks for posting it. I think I agree with all of it. As a Lewis fan I like to think that Lewis would have won between 92-94, but that's possibly biased on account of my allegiances.


The 90s was a fun time to be a boxing fan. But at the time people were saying it was a poor era. It was anything but in hindsight.

 

Nice video Rummy. I agree on almost all points in it. Would of liked a mention of Golota's bizarre injection fiasco before the Lewis bout because he clearly looked "off" entering the ring. But great explanation of events and how I remember them

 

the trouble with bowe`s arguement is that bowe after he beat the 204lb holyfield in the first fight itlatley avoided lewis and not the other way around.

bowe went in against a long past it small michael dokes instead of lewis

then backed it up against non punching /small heavy jesse ferguson a trialhorse
with a 20-10 record from memory

then fought a bulked up holyfield in his next fight and lost
then rebuilds against tiny buster mathis jnr
jolly cuban no intrest giant gonzales and then career ending fiights v galota

so bowes peak lasted really only about 3 fights
holyfield 1
dokes
ferguson
from then on it was mostly downhill.

lewis also lost but he fought about 20 top 10 heavys in his career and fought in his opponents backyard and against all the avoided fighters / and top heavys of his eras bar
rid**** bowe/ john ruiz/chris byrd.

bowe fought holyfield and golota of top 10 genuine fighters thats it from memory.

rock newman IMO was the culprit / bowe himself IMO would have fought lewis but newman would never let bowe of the leash / on the way up bowe was never allowed near anyone with power and sadly we never got to see the prime bowe v lewis fight.

bowe is still a young man / but he sounds like an old man on an oxygen machine
and his weight is shocking.

i had 2 friends who were same age as me / both died 2 years ago who were 6.4 and 20 stone plus

1 died in his flat on his own of a heart attack

the other went into a coma from which he never came out from type 2 diabetes.

bowe needs some good advice from loved ones if he will listen to them.

 

Bowe can hardly be called a "young man". He's almost 50.


Anyway, a key difference between Lewis and Bowe is perception of their willingness to fight all-comers. Nobody questions LL's desire to fight the best. Bowe never seemed to have that reputation. And ultimately, this is where a lot of a boxer's goodwill comes from when it comes to the people who matter - the fans. Roy Jones' legacy suffers too in this regard. Carl Froch's legacy is almost built entirely upon it, despite losing some big fights.

 

Great post. 100 percent.

 

i agree resume and willingness to take on all commers win or lose is more important than impressive numbers but weak opposition.

im a street market trader all my life
im older than bowe and i always get called young man by customers/ granted most dont have there own teeth anymore

 

It's all about perspective! When I'm Bowe's age (I'm about 10 years younger) I'll 100% be insisting that it's not old at all.

 

i assure you / mentally you feel no different whatsover at 50 than what you do at 40

just you have to work twice as hard to stay in shape.

 

Yeah, I can believe that. I don't feel any different to being almost 40 than I felt when I was almost 30. The biggest thing being that women in their 20s notice me even less than they did back then!

 

One other thing that strikes me about the above Lewis/Bowe video...


Bowe saying to lewis that he isn't afraid of Lewis... And that Ruddock was...

Perhaps I'm reading too much into that, but that almost tells me that Bowe was himself afraid of Lewis. Why go to so much effort to emphasise the issue of fear? Lewis never talked about fear of anyone, either on behalf of someone else (as Bowe was doing about Ruddock) or himself. It's like it never crossed Lewis' mind. Clearly it crossed Bowe's mind.