Did Bowe have an excuse for not fighting Lewis???

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Rock Neuman (Bowe's manager) has said that, after winning the title, he wanted Bowe to make a couple easy defenses, in order to makes some money before fighting a legitimate threat. (If you remember, Bowe's first two defenses were against a very old Michael Dokes, and Journeyman Jessie Fergison).

However, the WBC demanded that Bowe Fight his mandatory Lennox Lewis, in his very first defense. Accordingly, Bowe went for the easy money and trashed the WBC title.

At the time their was a public backlash against Bowe, because it was believed by everyone involved, including HBO, that Holyfield, Bowe, Lewis and Ruddick where fighting a four fighter tournament to determine heavyweight supremacy in the wake of Mike Tyson's imprisonment.

Yeah and Bowe thought Holyfield would be an easier choice ( but he lost that fight )

Bowes record is actually pretty good.He has only 1 loss and that was to a guy hes beaten twice anyway and it was very close. However if he met Lewis at any point of his career , Bowe would have been knocked out and of that Im certain .