Lewis beat Bowe in the 88 Olympics. Bowe was not knocked out, he was stopped on his feet protesting after several standing eight counts from memory. Lewis clearly deserved his win.
That said, I think the Bowe of 91/92 was a far superior fighting machine. He did much better against a peak Holyfield than Lewis ever did against even the old Holyfield, what 8 years or so later.
I'm a little suprised by the heavy voting in Lewis's favour.
But those predicting a knockout for Lewis clearly have not seen prime Bowe fight, his chin was terrific.......plus he was never stopped and only ever lost one very close decision to prime Holyfield. Even when clearly shot against Golota he was only stopped by low blows.
Bowe was very heavy handed and could land bombs late into fights, check out Holyfield 1. Lewis's chin would surely be tested and we all know that Lewis's losses to McCall and Rahman were one punch KOs.
if they had faugt in 93 Rid****s prime, Bowe wins the fight. Lewis at this time was beaten by McCall, was outjabbed by Bruno (behind on points) and struggling with a ****aine wreck tony tucker for 12 rounds( tucker was comming of 2 years retirement).
I just cant see this version of Lewis beat Big daddy. Lewis was unimressive in these years and Bowe had hammered evander holyfield big time.
For people who really belive in Lewis against Bowe, sit down and watch both fighters fights around 91-92-93. Easy fight for Bowe.
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