Video: The tale of Lennox Lewis & Riddlck Bowe

The Lewis that should've fought Bowe couldn't 'slaughter ' an old , washed up Tony Tucker - rather he looked , clumsy , raw and very beatable against him.

This was further proven when he got beaten by MaCall.

He would have been whitewashed by Bowe if he had the bottle to fight him.

 

Lewis would have beaten Bowe at any time. Bowe had some good skills but he was so easy to hit, even against journeyman level fighters. Bowe's handlers kept him away from Lewis and other big punchers. Lewis would have landed the big right hand and it would've the beginning of the end.

 

That's why he refused to fight Lewis when he was his mandatory and threw his title in the garbage. One of the worst ducks in boxing history.

 

Wrong. Lewis and his manager refused the obligatory split given to a mandatory challenger.

They refused the exact same split Bowe agreed to when he fought Holyfield. Lewis played the A side when he was a nobody. Its called pricing yourself out.

 

Nope. The Lewis camp refused the ridiculous 90/10 split offer from Bowe not the standard 75/25 for a mando challenger. 90/10=pricing themselves out.

 

You don't know what you're talking about.

The 90/10 split was based off a proposed $32 million deal from HBO which spanned two fights.. That never materialized and was just talk.
But even when it was just talk , Lewis camp still were negative in negotiations , calling the split 'absurd ' , despite it earning Lewis far more than his 25% split of a one fight deal.

That was after the Lewis camp turned down every fair and standard offer to make the fight.

 

Well that's your version of events. The reality is that Bowe's team lowballed Lewis hoping that he'd refuse. After he mulled it over and accepted, Bowe said they weren't interested in making a deal anymore. Clear duck.

As far as the later offers, they came with the stipulation that Lewis had to relinquish his WBC title to fight for Bowe's IBF & WBA titles.

Chicken Bowe wanted no part of a fight with Lewis.

 

You just debunked your own argument by posting that.

$3 million was Lewis mandatory split. The exact same Bowe received when he challenged Holyfield.

Lewis camp rejected the obligatory 25% as a mandatory challenger. Thats not my version of events. Thats a fact. You say that - you duck. No two ways about it.

If that wasn't bad enought , Maloney was black mailing team Bowe with an offer they got from King to fight Tony Tucker for 9 million.

Maloney is on record saying they wouldn't fight Bowe for less than 9 million.

The ducking of Bowe by Lewis is one of the worst ducks in the history of the sport. And its made worse by casuals like you who have less than the most simplistic understanding of the situation.

 

I reckon Lewis would have lit Bowe up at most points of his career. I think that Bowe knew it too, hence the duck. Not saying Bowe could never have beaten Lewis, because Lennox had some very pedestrian performances from time to time. But overall Lewis > Bowe.

 

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DinoCrazy strikes again!

 

And thats why YDKSAB.

Bowe was far superior to Lewis at that period and that is blatantly clear to people with even only a semi trained eye for the sport.
Hence the Lewis duck. Hence Lewis management rejecting every single avenue to make the fight.

Kliturds hate Bowe and you only like Lewis because he beat Vitali.

 

You were instrumental in damming Wilder over the Povetkin debacle. Your cause is transparent. Caster football is over that way.

 

hmm I recall differently. Lewis (of course biased but still) walked into a room with his manager Ogun and Bowes manager. Bowe demanded 90% of the purse. They said "You can't be serious". They said "We are, we're not budging".

So Lewis and Ogun walked to the WBC to enfoce a regular purse bid and split. Next thing you know Bowe trashed the belt.

 

Nice work as always.

A real shame we didn't get to see this fight in the professional ranks...

 

Bowe emphatically ducked Lewis. I remember it like it was yesterday. Was Rock Neuman a big reason why the fight didn't happen? Absolutely. The lowball offer was done on purpose by Rock, but bottom line...the mandatory fight had to happen. He chose to call Lennox a garbage picker and I didn't like that ****. The big difference in their styles was Lennox had more power and that he could fight inside. Bowe could only go get inside. He couldn't box. Lennox beat him in the ams and would've kod him in the pros. Jmo