Is that you Riddick? What about the rumours Bowe offered Lewis a winner take all purse fight by fax? After a few days Lewis and his team faxed back "yes. you're on". Bowe's team wasn't heard from again...........
I think he had some real problems. I was in his camp a few years back, Eddie Futch was upset with his lack of training dedication. At his peak Bowe was really good fighter after Eddie Futch trained him, but he did not continue to do what Eddie told him to do.
He's like the Thomas Hearns of the heavyweight division, pretty good but lost all the big fights he's been in.
thats just sad... of course 90-10 split was his first attempt to snowball the fight or did this happen first?
Huh? Bowe's only official loss is the rematch with Holyfield. Bowe was lucky (or perhaps unlucky) that Golota was a nutcase (no pun intended), but the first fight was not even really considered a "big fight". It was considered to be a tune-up/showcase fight. Only the rematch was considered a big fight at the time, and Bowe didn't lose either bout anyway. Golota was the loser of the two bouts, because he's crazy. Hearns lost to Leonard and Hagler but the Duran fight was by no means "small". Neither was the Benitez fight and the Leonard rematch.
Last thing heard from Bowe was that he trained in a small gym in Kaiserslautern (Germany). He then fought a tomato can on a Klitschko undercard in Germany (Wlad-Rahman) in december 2008, posed with the Klitschkos in the ring, waved a small ukrainian flag and vowed to beat both Klitschkos by the end of 2009. One year ago he gave an interview where he said his ass was broke, that he needed to sign autographs for some $ and that he would take ANY fight... Bowe has never been a clever guy, and he always had the wrong people around him that took advantage of him - now he's brain-damaged and broke. During his short prime, Bowe was an excellent, skilled, talented HW on the same level with Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield, he had a great trainer in Eddie Futch, but he had a bad habit of not getting into shape for his fights, plus his wars with Holyfield took a lot out of him. He clearly ranks below Holyfield and Lewis because he wasn't a durable fighter. Eddie Futch said that Bowe was the best HW he ever trained, but also the most undisciplined, that he also was his biggest let-down, and Eddie didn't want to train Bowe anymore at the end of his career. Eddie said that Bowe was the biggest waste of potential he has seen in boxing. Unfortunately Bowe gets most remembered today only for his 'wins' over Golota and his ducking of Lewis, and not for his great trilogy with Holyfield. Nobody can say that Bowe didn't have heart either, he hung in there in the wars with Holyfield, and with Golota when he already was shot to ****. I've seldom seen a HW take so much punishment than Bowe did take from Golota, even without the lowblows. Bowe got of the canvas against Holyfield to win by KO (the third fight), and he got of the canvas numerous times against Golota and managed to knock Golota down himself.
In terms of ability, he was one of the best heavyweights ever h2h. Tremendous inside game. But overall, he will never be remembered as a great heavyweight champion. He just didn't have the dedication.
