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Bowe didn't want any plain and simple. Lewis took him out in the Am's and clearly was the best out there. Why would Bowe risk it all fighting Lewis when he can take easier fights for more money.
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Ha, ha. That's amusing to watch at the end of the HBO broadcast of Bowe-Holyfield I. I think that Bowe might have won, consider his fight with Jorge Gonzalez. They hated each other since the amatuer days, and Bowe trained intensely for the fight and KO'd Gonzalez in round 6. Lewis, or course, at the time of the first Holyfield fight, was just, just, horrible. He was decent, I guess, but he would have been beat at that point by Holyfield and a prime Tyson. Bowe would have showed up, looking to knock out Lewis, and he would have most likely gotten it, if he showed up with the same intensity he had against Evander Holyfield that first time.Comment
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Lewis is lucky the fight did not happen then, because Bowe would most likely have Ko'ed him. Lewis looked less than impressive against Tony Tucker, and then he looked terrible against Frank Bruno. Lewis was being KTFO not long after that.
Bowe dropped the WBC belt for a number of reasons. Newman had gripe with Jose Sulliman who was a known King allie. The WBC dropped Bowe down their rankings to put one of Don Kings fighters above him, when Bowe was virtually guaranteed a title shot. Also a Holyfield rematch offered more money.
When Ruddok fought Lewis. Don King was out of the picture. Don King assumed that Ruddock would beat Lewis and he would find his was back into the HW picture. However Lewis beat Ruddock, and King was out in the cold so WBC made Lewis first defence against Tony Tucker another Don King fighter. That is how in with Joe Sulliman Don King was.Comment
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Rid**** Bowe's disgust was complete. Here on the TV screen before him was Lennox Lewis getting out-jabbed by Frank Bruno. Frank Bruno! Lewis had slipped so far that only a desperate seventh-round punch would save him, and it was dawning on Bowe that he might soon find himself without a proper pay-per-view nemesis. "Rock," he finally cried to his manager, Rock Newman, sitting next to him, "we got to get him quick!"
Of course, this is heavyweight boxing, and nothing happens quick. Bowe, who was in Sacramento to fight an exhibition that evening at the Arco Arena, is in training for a Nov. 6 rematch with Evander Holyfield. And although Bowe complains that Lewis, who holds the WBC title that he forfeited, is further avoiding him by planning a fight with Tommy Morrison, Bowe has Michael Moorer penciled in after Holyfield. The soonest Bowe and Lewis could meet would be late 1994.
Still, Bowe was surprisingly agitated. While Newman was almost gleeful—"Ted Mack's Amateur Hour," he kept hollering—Bowe, watching Lewis struggle, could barely contain his impatience. "I wanted to be the first guy to expose him," said Bowe. "I wish I could get him before Tommy Morrison does. Morrison will take him out with that big hook."Comment
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reason is that LEWIS knocked him out in amateurs!Comment
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Bowe would have been beaten again, he knew it, some of you dont, but he did. Aint LL fault, everyone knows it was Bowe that bottled it.Comment
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according to boxrec, bowe is still active....... interesting...........
http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php...1640&cat=boxerComment
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