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Holyfield was undisputed champion, he had every right to defend against the WBA No1 contender... his court case was to stop the WBC from stripping him of their belt and fragmenting the undisputed title... Holyfield would have had to wait 6 months before he could have defended against Ruddock as Ruddock had signed to fight Lewis in London.. the fight with Lewis was changed to a "Final Eliminator" only days before the fight... after Bowe beat Holyfield and Lewis priced himself out of meeting Bowe because he knew that Bowe would be stripped of the WBC belt so Bowe said to the WBC & Lewis "Up You Two" and dumped the belt... Lewis picked the belt out of the trash can and masqueraded as a champion for 18 months unto McCall Poleaxed him.. The Bowe camp then offered Lewis a career highest purse of $10 million which Lewis turned down.... There was only one guy who was ducking here!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_B...il#cite_note-3
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/28/sp...l?pagewanted=1
Bowe was having second thoughts about fighting the winner of Lewis Bowe, before he even fought Holufiled, lolComment
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More accomplished, I'd go with Frazier, Lewis has a missing piece when he never get a chance to beat Rid**** Bowe, and Frazier gave Ali his toughest fights in their trilogies, Also Smokin Joe being knockout by George Foreman twice (KO by 2 and 5) has by far faced a bigger puncher then Lewis being stopped by McCall and Rahman (KO2 and KO5)Comment
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Murad Muhammad, Jones's promoter:
Another article further down:"We shocked the boxing world when we took on and defeated John Ruiz. We shocked them again when we announced that we wanted the three musketeers. Mike Tyson was first, but he was not ready. It's not that he does not want to fight him, he's just not ready yet. We then tried to get Evander Holyfield, 'The Real Deal' but he would not make a deal, and he decided to fight James Toney in a fight that he's finished if he loses. And if he wins, then he's a possibility for next year. Then came Lennox Lewis, we offered him $25,000,000 to fight us, and when he realized it was real, he wanted to get rid of his mandatory (Klitschko) to fight Roy Jones Jr,, but after he put on that poor performance. he doesn't know if he should retire or fight Klitschko again, so Roy was left out in the cold.
Still, negotiations have commenced. Lewis` camp insists the big man seeks at least one more major fight before retirement. If so, here`s a wrinkle: Jones wants the bigger purse. He`s hinted at $100 million. "These guys are different animals," said Jones, who earned more than $10 million for fighting Ruiz. "That`s why I got to be paid three times the money in order to do it. It`s ******. Why would I go in there and not make a major, major payday? One lick could be the end of me. One lick from me ain`t going to end their career."
Herbie Hide beat Bent to get the WBO title and lost it in his next defence to Bowe. Hide was never a big name in the UK, where I also live, he also has never beat anyone worth mentioning at hw
Holyfield didnt even have a belt, when Tyson agreed to fight him he was also 2-2 in his last 4 fights and considered a fighter on the slide at the time
When Holyfield and Tyson signed to fight there was no demand for the fight because Holyfield was considered finished at the time. In fact Evander had to get medical clearance from the Mayo clinic before the fight could be sanctioned by the Nevada Athletic Commission because the prevailing thought was Tyson wouldn't just beat Holyfield, but might possibly injure him
Tyson wanted nothing to do with Lewis so he could fight a shot Holyfield, who team Tyson fought was going to be easy pickings.
Teddy Atlas in his autobiography states that he wanted Moorer to have nothing to do with Lewis because he saw him as a high risk opponent
All you have to do is look at Moorer performance in the Holyfield I fight to see that he was never going to be a good hw champion.
Ruiz wouldnt start hitting and holding until after he got blasted out by Tua in 20 seconds 2 years later in 96. You are also going to have to do better then: "word is from guys who were there," as well and quote a source
Ruiz worked his way up the rankings by fighting nobodies, he also went 1-1-1 with Holyfield nothing really to brag about. And I thought Holyfield should of got the nod in their last fight as well. The fact that he put Holyfield on the floor is neither here nor there, Holyfield has been dropped by: Bowe*2, Cooper and Toney
Why would Lewis care what King wanted he avoided having anything to do with him for most of his career.Styles make fights the fact that Byrd beat Holyfield more convincing means nothing or are you trying to use triangular theory here? Th rest of this I have already answered in another post, you should go and read the Lennox Lewis bio called Mamas boy
It was the other way around, how could a mandatory challenger make such demands? Also if Lewis was to blame then why didnt the WBC simply drop him from their rankings instead of stripping Bowe?
We should believe something, because Bowe has said it? Also do you have a sourse for any of this stuff?
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I think you are kidding yourself with this stuff.Comment
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I like how you changed your story there.
Show me one article to back this version of events up.
That make no sense as I have pointed out before in a earlier post, tell me one high risk opponent Bowe has ever fought?Comment
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frazier put his heart and soul into every fight..can,t say the same about lewisComment
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While you encourage others to "watch it again",why don't you try actually watching it for the first time?
He certainly put his "heart and soul" into ducking virtually every puncher of his generation.
He didn't "beat that ass" nor did he attempt to.Ali simply outboxed him in everyway.
frazier made Ali wait three years until he was sure Ali was washed up to rematch him.He did all he could to avoid Ali while his feather fisted superior was fighting on a regular basis against the top contenders frazier was avoiding.Last edited by Snopkins; 03-21-2010, 01:39 PM.Comment
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