Quote Originally Posted by THE PHILOSOPHER View Post
The original plan was that Bowe would fight Lewis in early '96, then Tyson in late '96 or early '97.

However, Main Events were very keen on pushing Andrew Golota and successfully lobbied HBO to 'jump the gun' on that fight to arrange Bowe vs Golota instead.

The rest is history...

Ahh, I see!

What a shame. Bowe vs Tyson would have been pretty exciting. I love Bowe but I think at that point in his career he was getting hit way too much. You could see the deterioration of his skill even in the Herbie Hide fight.