OGs what was the reaction when Riddikk Bowe thru the WBC heavyweight title belt in the trash?

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

I was 9

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1992/12/15/bowe-trashes-wbc-championship/e6b2081b-0eb8-424c-9ece-73f69cae8e9a/

The World Boxing Council had threatened to strip heavyweight champion Riddikk Bowe of its title Jan. 2 if he didn't make his first defense against Britain's Lennox Lewis. Bowe beat the WBC to the punch yesterday; he tossed the WBC belt into a trash can in London, Lewis's hometown.

Bowe remains recognized by the other two main sanctioning bodies -- the World Boxing Association and the International Boxing Federation.

At a news conference, the Associated Press reported that Bowe picked up the belt and dropped it into a large black garbage can. "The WBC is wrong, and I will not be intimidated by them," he said. "I am the heavyweight champion of the world and today I withdraw my recognition of the WBC. I am stripping them. ... If Lewis wants the belt, he has to get it out of the garbage. Then we will call him 'garbage picker.' "

Was he viewed as a coward or ducking Lennox? Was he justified in being upset at the mandatory? What was the perception?

 

[Erratic415]

People were really disappointed. Everyone was expecting the Lewis-Ruddock and Bowe-Holyfield 1 winners to face each other and then it didn’t happen. Bowe got a lot of criticism for that.

It was probably because of the huge Time Warner contract Bowe got. Bowe got huge money for facing soft competition. I think they eventually would have fought after milking it, but Bowe lost to a supposedly shot Holyfield, and Lewis lost to McCall

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

People were really disappointed. Everyone was expecting the Lewis-Ruddock and Bowe-Holyfield 1 winners to face each other and then it didn’t happen. Bowe got a lot of criticism for that.

It was probably because of the huge Time Warner contract Bowe got. Bowe got huge money for facing soft competition. I think they eventually would have fought after milking it, but Bowe lost to a supposedly shot Holyfield, and Lewis lost to McCall

Good info. As a kid my first favorite boxer other than Tyson, was Holyfield, because of the SEGA game. His fights aged like wine too, every Holyfield fight is entertaining on rewatch. Tyson/Holyfield 1 is fukkin epic.

Would've been great if that happened (the winners vs each other).

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

It was bad for him in NY for a while...

He was pretty much excommunicated in BK and became synonymous with bytch ass nikka...

 

[SteelCitySoldier]

It was bad for him in NY for a while...

He was pretty much excommunicated in BK and became synonymous with bytch ass nikka...

I remember this being the same reaction and I was in high school living in Los Angeles at the time. He was a bytch ass nikka for ducking that fight.

 

[Erratic415]

Good info. As a kid my first favorite boxer other than Tyson, was Holyfield, because of the SEGA game. His fights aged like wine too, every Holyfield fight is entertaining on rewatch. Tyson/Holyfield 1 is fukkin epic.

I remember the Sega game, I would spend the whole round doing a combo of a hook to the body and uppercut to the head.

Holyfield had a lot of good fights. Qawi 1 is maybe the best cruiserweight fight ever. The Bowe fights, Moorer 2, Foreman, Mercer, Stewart 1, etc….The Dokes fight and Bowe 1 are probably my favorites. The 3rd round of the Cooper fight is a classic round too.

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

I remember the Sega game, I would spend the whole round doing a combo of a hook to the body and uppercut to the head.

Holyfield had a lot of good fights. Qawi 1 is maybe the best cruiserweight fight ever. The Bowe fights, Moorer 2, Foreman, Mercer, Stewart 1, etc….The Dokes fight and Bowe 1 are probably my favorites. The 3rd round of the Cooper fight is a classic round too.

Holyfield has a solid argument for having tge most classic heavyweight fights ever...really any weight class. He never had a mid fight from what I remember.

 

[Black_Jesus]

At the time Bowe was still viewed as the King at HW with or without that belt after beating Holyfield.. Nobody outside of hard-core boxing fans gave AF about Lewis in 1992

 

[NormanConnors]

I was for this and the Larry Donald shyt.


I was on record for Bowe beating Lewis via knockout, especially that one handed version of Lennox

 

[patscorpio]

that he was ducking Lewis...Bowe in the 90s was a neverending source of fukkery..him and his manager Rock Newman...how the legendary Eddie Futch stayed with him for as long as he did is a testament to his patience

 

[dj-method-x]

Riddikk Bowe is an HW enigma. Only has one L in his career, beat the guy who beat him twice, and is still barely mentioned.

 

[patscorpio]

Riddikk Bowe is an HW enigma. Only has one L in his career, beat the guy who beat him twice, and is still barely mentioned.

because he kind of crashed and burned in his prime

 

[R.B.J1]

At the time Bowe was still viewed as the King at HW with or without that belt after beating Holyfield.. Nobody outside of hard-core boxing fans gave AF about Lewis in 1992

This sums it up perfectly.

 

[R.B.J1]

because he kind of crashed and burned in his prime

I remember watching the Golota fight and it seemed like he got old overnight, I think it was due to him ballooning up to over 300lbs between fights. He also had a full kitchen built in his bedroom...he said he didnt feel like walking to the kitchen.