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no he is retired - end of

its annoying looking back isn't it that this is one fight we never got to see - as a big fight fan this is probably in my top 3 in disappointments of fights we never got to see due to boxing politics.

Eubank Benn III is right up with it too
It wasn't politics that prevented this fight, it was Chicken Bowe.

They could have circumvented the politics & just fought if Bowe wanted to.

He did it with Holyfield the 3rd time round, presumably because he thought Holyfield was no threat.
I don't see Bowe being any more keen to make a fight with Lewis now than he was back then, it was an almost certain beatdown back then....and it still is now. Not that Lewis is coming out of retirement, he's a smart guy and doesn't need the money, and realises he doesn't need to do it for his legacy.