Lennox Lewis on fighting Riddick Bowe CURRENTLY
From Dan Rafael at ESPN.COM/Boxing
"I'm a normal person. I have dreams, daydreams or whatever,...I've dreamed about boxing Riddick Bowe. If they want to do an oldies show, let's bring back Riddick Bowe for the fight that never happened."
"He waits until I am in retirement to call out my name," said Lewis, who still has animosity toward Bowe. "I will come out of retirement to beat up that guy. I'll beat him up for free."
Lewis beat Bowe in the 1998 Olympic final to win the gold medal but was ducked by Bowe in the pros. Bowe even tossed a championship belt in a trash can in a publicity stunt to avoid a mandatory defense against Lewis. Bowe, of course, is scheduled to fight for the first time in three and a half years on Dec. 13 in Germany on the undercard of Wladimir Klitschko's title defense against Rahman. Lewis will be ringside for HBO and plans on watching Bowe's fight.
Re: Lennox Lewis on fighting Riddick Bowe CURRENTLY
Somebody hand me a shovel so I can dig up the corpse of Jack Johnson,Ive got an idea for a fight;D
Re: Lennox Lewis on fighting Riddick Bowe CURRENTLY
Wow coming back to the fight the brain damaged Riddock Bowe, respect :rolleyes:
Maybe the winner can go after Holyfield for a third or fourth time, with the loser (providing it's Evander or Riddick) going after Nikolay Valuev's belt.
If Lennox comes back he should fight Wlad, Vitali and Haye.
Re: Lennox Lewis on fighting Riddick Bowe CURRENTLY
May as well put him out of his misery. Clearly Bowe is going to end up on skid row one way or another within five years.
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Although I don't like the prospect of Bowe fighting on, I wouldn't mind seeing Lewis knock him out. Bowe ducked him at the time when a fight between them would have been huge, and held Lewis back from THE heavyweight Championship for over 5 years.
If anyone deserves to knock brain damaged bowe out, its Lewis.
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Wow coming back to the fight the brain damaged Riddock Bowe, respect :rolleyes:
Maybe the winner can go after Holyfield for a third or fourth time, with the loser (providing it's Evander or Riddick) going after Nikolay Valuev's belt.
If Lennox comes back he should fight Wlad, Vitali and Haye.
I think Lewis is speaking out of anger. Lewis was aching to fight the guy and Bowe just wouldn't go for it. Let the guy vent.
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I for one never understood why Bowe didn't fight Lennox. I thought he would beat him easy in the pros. He possesed one of the best jabs in heavyweight history,his overhand right was no cupcake also. Maybe it was as easy as it sounded Riddick was afraid of Lennox.
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I for one never understood why Bowe didn't fight Lennox. I thought he would beat him easy in the pros. He possesed one of the best jabs in heavyweight history,his overhand right was no cupcake also. Maybe it was as easy as it sounded Riddick was afraid of Lennox.
I think he was. Lewis stopped in the Olympics and was hard for Bowe to get over that.
Re: Lennox Lewis on fighting Riddick Bowe CURRENTLY
Lewis was too good for any heavyweight if the last 20 years.. Fact
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P.T Barnum was a man ahead of his time.Maybe we could get Holyfield to special guest ref and make a day of it?
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Id love to see it and it would go the same way as the last time they met in the ring
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I for one never understood why Bowe didn't fight Lennox. I thought he would beat him easy in the pros. He possesed one of the best jabs in heavyweight history,his overhand right was no cupcake also. Maybe it was as easy as it sounded Riddick was afraid of Lennox.
Riddick Bowe was taught a boxing lesson by a shot overweight Tony Tubbs, when Riddick Bowe realized he couldn't deal with fighters with good jabs, he stayed away from Lennox Lewis. Just look how badly Andrew Golota dominated Riddick Bowe with the jab, Riddick Bowe was just a sitting duck for that double jab.
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Somebody hand me a shovel so I can dig up the corpse of Jack Johnson,Ive got an idea for a fight;D
He is justntaking digs at Bowe and the fact he is still fighting....There was a lot of bad blood between the two that Bowe caused....Anyone remember him throwing the title in the garbage and telling Lewis to dig in the trash for it?........Then shit talked him for years afterward.....
I think Lennox would fight Bowe in an Alley just to get his hands on him...
BTW Bowe is younger then Lennox by 3 years
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I for one never understood why Bowe didn't fight Lennox. I thought he would beat him easy in the pros. He possesed one of the best jabs in heavyweight history,his overhand right was no cupcake also. Maybe it was as easy as it sounded Riddick was afraid of Lennox.
Riddick Bowe was taught a boxing lesson by a shot overweight Tony Tubbs, when Riddick Bowe realized he couldn't deal with fighters with good jabs, he stayed away from Lennox Lewis. Just look how badly Andrew Golota dominated Riddick Bowe with the jab, Riddick Bowe was just a sitting duck for that double jab.
I think Bowe losing to Golota had something to do with him already having marbles for brains. I have no clue how Bowe can get a boxing license NOW.
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The Fightfan
I for one never understood why Bowe didn't fight Lennox. I thought he would beat him easy in the pros. He possesed one of the best jabs in heavyweight history,his overhand right was no cupcake also. Maybe it was as easy as it sounded Riddick was afraid of Lennox.
Riddick Bowe was taught a boxing lesson by a shot overweight Tony Tubbs, when Riddick Bowe realized he couldn't deal with fighters with good jabs, he stayed away from Lennox Lewis. Just look how badly Andrew Golota dominated Riddick Bowe with the jab, Riddick Bowe was just a sitting duck for that double jab.
I think Bowe losing to Golota had something to do with him already having marbles for brains. I have no clue how Bowe can get a boxing license NOW.
He always struggled with tall fighters with good jabs, just look at his early fights against Tony Tubbs, Tyrell Biggs. You can clearly see his timing/rhythm is totally off when those fighters were sticking there jabs in his face.
And thats exactly what happened against Andrew Golota, prime or no prime unless Riddick Bowe finished Andrew Golota early. He would always have big problems with Andrew Golota.
