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

[C.J.Rock]

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.

It was believed by everyone until Lewis demolished Ruddock and scared Bowe chitless. Bowe renaged on the dealso really he was never the legitimate world hw champ

[mike_tha_man]

haha in Boxrec it shows him scheduled to fight on Dec 13. What a load of crap. hope thats all bull as we dont need another comeback