Quote Originally Posted by nuclear bull
they never fought because lewis wanted more money then bowe even though bowe was the undisputed champion, bowes manger rock newmen sumed it up perfect

he said.....when riddick was goner fight holyfield we never made money a issue, that fact bowe was fighting for the title is what we wanted, we knew riddick could beat evander.........lewis needs to understand bowe is the world champ so he gets the large end of the money, if lewis and his people are confident he'll beat bowe then that should be enough to take the fight, he'll make the large end of money when he's champ unless they know he cant beat bowe so figger wer better make as much from the fight coz we'll never be champ

its not word for word but you get the point
What a load of shit

Its blatantly obvious they were shit scared of Lewis... they even had a press conference to cornfirm it

According to the Lewis/Frank Maloney books, Newman was asking for silly shit like a 90%-10% cut. Eventually Lewis team agreed to a 75%-25% cut but Bowe still didn't wanna know...and Lewis was willing to accept much less than the $9 million he was getting for Tucker