Riddick Bowe

Riddick Bowe
Data
Birth Name	Riddick Lamont Bowe
Fight name	Big daddy
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	US-american
birthday	August 10, 1968
place of birth	new York
style	Left delivery
size	1.96 m
Range	2.06 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	45
Victories	43
Knockout victories	33
Defeats	1
No value	1
Profile in the BoxRec database

Riddick Lamont Bowe (born August 10, 1968 in Brooklyn , New York ) is a retired American heavyweight boxer . He was one of the few undisputed world boxing champions after the boxing associations split up. He held the world title of all four major boxing associations - the World Boxing Association , the World Boxing Council , the International Boxing Federation and the World Boxing Organization . The latter, however, at a later date.

amateur

Bowe grew up as the youngest of 13 siblings in Brownsville , New York, the same part of town as Mike Tyson . Tyson was one of his playmates. He started boxing when he was twelve and learned the sport in a home.

Bowe achieved an unusually high knockout rate in amateur boxing. In 1985 he was in Bucharest junior world champion light heavyweight, where he won each of his three fights early in the first round. At the Pan American Games in Indianapolis in 1987 , he finished third in the super heavyweight division after losing in the semi-finals to Cuban Jorge Luis González . He took part in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , defeated Biko Botowamungu by knockout in the second round, Peter Hrivniak by knockout in the first round and Alexander Miroschnitschenko 5-0 on points and only lost in the final against Lennox Lewis , with which he won the silver medal for the USA.

• Amateur record: 104 wins - 18 losses

• 3rd Junior World Championship 1985 in Bucharest : 1st place in the light heavyweight division
• 4th World Cup 1985 in Seoul : 4th place in the light heavyweight division
• 10th Pan American Games 1987 in Indianapolis : 3rd place in the super heavyweight division
• 1988 US Championship in Colorado Springs : 3rd place in super heavyweight division
• 24th Summer Olympics in Seoul in 1988 : 2nd place in the super heavyweight division

Professional career 1989–1996

After losing at the Olympic Games, he began his professional career in March 1989. His manager rock Newman undertook with Eddie Futch the former coach of Joe Frazier and Ken Norton . His build-up opponents were considered very strong, including beating Bruce Seldon , the amateur world champion and Olympic champion Tyrell Biggs , Pinklon Thomas , Bert Cooper and Pierre Coetzer KO and defeated the former WBA world champion Tony Tubbs on points.

Mike Tyson unexpectedly lost his world title to Buster Douglas in 1990 , who was then dethroned by Evander Holyfield . After Tyson's imprisonment in 1992, which prevented a fight between him and Holyfield (which was to take place 5 years later), a quasi-tournament was arranged to determine the “true” heavyweight world champion. Title holder Holyfield against Bowe, Lennox Lewis against Donovan Ruddock and finally the winners of these fights against each other.

On November 13, 1992 Bowe boxed against Holyfield, whom he defeated on points in a spectacular, action-packed duel. Bowe was thus world champion of the three generally recognized associations WBA , IBF and WBC .

In early 1993, Bowe was asked to defend his WBC title against mandatory challenger Lennox Lewis, who had previously prevailed against Ruddock. But Bowe threw the WBC belt in a garbage can in front of the cameras. The title was stripped from him and awarded to Lewis. For the following six fights, Bowe then signed a $ 100 million contract with Time Warner. He then defended the WBA and IBF titles against former WBA world champion Michael Dokes and against the more average Jesse Ferguson for six million dollars per fight.

On November 6th there was a rematch between him and Holyfield, who had just made a comeback. Bowe lost the fight surprisingly just on points, it was his first defeat in professional boxing. Holyfield had put on weight under his new coach Emanuel Steward and surprised Bowe with an unexpected counterattack.

In 1994 he fought some development fights against undefeated opponents. First he faced Buster Mathis Jr. (14-0); the fight was however stopped without evaluation after Bowe knocked out the kneeling Mathis illegally in the 4th round. He then defeated Larry Donald (16-0) high on points. Bowe hit Donald in the face at the press conference

In the three most influential associations, however, he was mysteriously no longer at the top of the rankings. So he was interested in the title of the WBO, which was not particularly respected in the USA at the time . On March 11, 1995 there was a fight against the WBO world champion Herbie Hide (record 26-0), which Bowe won by knockout in the sixth round. He defended the title once by knockout (also in round 6) against Jorge Luis González (record 23-0), who had beaten him as an amateur before he resigned because Holyfield did not want to box for the title.

On November 4, 1995, he boxed in a non-title fight for a third time against Evander Holyfield and defeated him by technical knockout in the eighth round, after he himself went down in the sixth round for the first time in his career. After this fight - after all, Holyfield's first knockout defeat - he was briefly considered the best man in heavyweight even without a title. His rapid descent was therefore all the more surprising.

On July 11, 1996 he boxed against Andrzej Gołota (record 28-0). Underdog Gołota, who was notorious for his unfair boxing, was disqualified from being clearly in the lead in the seventh round due to repeated low blows. After the fight, Bowes' supervisors attacked Gołota and sparked a mass brawl.

Also in the rematch in December Gołota was disqualified in the ninth round, again due to low blows, again in the lead. Bowe was down twice, Gołota once.

However, after the rematch, Bowe announced his retirement from boxing as both performances were very disappointing. He joined the United States Marine Corps on short notice in December 1996 .

After boxing

In 1998, Bowe hit the headlines when he kidnapped his wife and five children. A verdict was not reached until the spring of 2002. Bowe was imprisoned for eighteen months and released in April 2004.

In 2005, Bowe filed for personal bankruptcy.

Comeback in the ring

Just five months after his release from prison, he got back in the ring, against Marcus Rhode from Oklahoma (then record 29-25) and won by technical knockout in the second round.

In early 2005, speculation surfaced as to whether Bowe would box Mike Tyson after both boxers had applied for permits to box in Washington, DC in June . But Bowe played his next fight on April 7th in Temecula against Billy Zumbrun and was only just able to prevail on points. The experts were not very enthusiastic about this performance. Bowe was no longer counted among the top heavyweights, the 1.96 m tall Bowe had a fighting weight of around 108 kg in his best form in the mid-1990s, now it has been over 125 kg.

Other planned fights (including against Michael Steeds , George Linberger and Daniil Peretyatko ) were canceled before another fight took place on December 13, 2008. Bowe was able to defeat the little renowned German heavyweight Gene Pukall unanimously on points.

On June 14, 2013, Bowe rose significantly overweight at the age of 46 for the first time as a Muay Thai fighter in the ring. His opponent was the Russian Levgen Golovin. Bowe lost to TKO in round 2. This fight was his only one in this competitive sport so far.

List of professional fights

43 wins (33 knockout wins), 1 defeat , 0 draw
year	Day	place	opponent	Result for Bowe
1989	6th March	Lawlor Events Center, Reno, Nevada, United States	Lionel Butler	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	April 14th	Trump Plaza Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States	Tracy Thomas	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	May 9	Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States	Garing Lane	Points victory (unanimously) / 4 rounds
	2nd July	Cumberland Co. Memorial Arena, Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States	Antonio Whiteside	Victory / TKO 1st round
	15th of July	Harrah's Marina Hotel Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States	Lorenzo Canady	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	September 3	Pensacola, Florida, United States	Lee Moore	Victory / KO 1st round
	September 15th	Gleason's Arena, Brooklyn, New York, United States	Anthony Hayes	Victory / KO 1st round
	September 19th	Veteran's Coliseum, Jacksonville, Florida, United States	Earl Lewis	Victory / TKO 1st round
	October 19th	Trump Plaza Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States	Mike Acey	Victory / TKO 1st round
	November 4th	Trump Plaza Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States	Garing Lane	Victory / TKO 4th round
	November 18	Coolidge High School, Washington, District of Columbia, United States	Don Askew	Victory / TKO 1st round
	November 28th	Alumni Arena, Buffalo, New York, United States	Art Card	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	December 14th	Saint Joseph, Missouri, United States	Charles Woolard	Victory / TKO 2nd round
1990	20. February	Trump Plaza Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States	Mike Robinson	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	April 1st	DC Armory, Washington, District of Columbia, United States	Robert Colay	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	April 14th	Mirage Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	Eddie Gonzales	Points victory (unanimous) / 8 rounds
	8th of May	Harrah's Marina Hotel Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States	Jesus Contreras	Victory / KO 1st round
	8th of July	Harrah's Marina Hotel Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States	Kind of Tucker	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	7th of September	UDC Physical Activities Center, Washington, District of Columbia, United States	Pinklon Thomas	Victory / TKO 8th round
	October 25	Mirage Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	Bert Cooper	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	December 14th	Kansas City, Missouri, United States	Tony Morrison	Victory / KO 1st round
1991	2nd March	Harrah's Marina Hotel Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States	Tyrell Biggs	Victory / TKO 8th round
	20th of April	Caesars Hotel & Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States	Tony Tubbs	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	June 28th	Mirage Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	Rodolfo Marin	Victory / KO 2nd round
	July 23	Harrah's Marina Hotel Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States	Phillip Brown	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	August 9	Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States	Bruce Seldon	Victory / KO 1st round
	October 29th	Convention Center, Washington, District of Columbia, United States	Elijah Tillery WBC Continental Heavyweight Championship	Victory / Disqualification 1st round
	13th December	Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States	Elijah Tillery	Victory / TKO 4th round
1992	7th of April	Harrah's Marina Hotel Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States	Conroy Nelson	Victory / KO 1st round
	8th of May	Riviera Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	Everett Martin	Victory / TKO 5th round
	July 18th	Mirage Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	Pierre Coetzer	Victory / TKO 7th round
	November 13th	Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	Evander Holyfield IBF / WBA / WBC World Heavyweight Championship	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
1993	February 6th	Madison Square Garden, New York, New York, United States	Michael Dokes IBF / WBA Heavyweight Title Defense	Victory / TKO 1st round
	May 22	RFK Stadium, Washington, District of Columbia, United States	Jesse Ferguson WBA heavyweight title defense	Victory / KO 2nd round
	November 6th	Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	Evander Holyfield IBF / WBA heavyweight title defense	Point loss (majority decision) / 12 rounds
1994	13 August	Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States	Buster Mathis Jr.	Invalid / canceled in round 4
	3rd of December	Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	Larry Donald WBC Continental Heavyweight Championship	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
1995	March 11	MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	Herbie Hide WBO World Heavyweight Championship	Victory / KO 6th round
	17th of June	MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	Jorge Luis González WBO heavyweight title defense	Victory / KO 6th round
	November 11th	Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States	Evander Holyfield	Victory / TKO 8th round
1996	July 11th	Madison Square Garden, New York, New York, United States	Andrzej Gołota	Victory / Disqualification 7th round
	December 14th	Convention Center, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States	Andrzej Gołota	Victory / disqualification 9th round
2004	25th of September	Fire Lake Casino, Shawnee, Oklahoma, United States	Marcus Rhode	Victory / TKO 2nd round
2005	7th of April	Pechanga Resort & Casino, Temecula, California, United States	Billy Zumbrun	Points win (split decision) / 10 rounds
2008	13th December	SAP Arena, Mannheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany	Gene Pukall	Points victory (unanimous) / 8 rounds
Source: Riddick Bowe in the BoxRec database

Web links

• Riddick Bowe in the BoxRec database
• Riddick Bowe in the BoxRec Encyclopaedia
• Riddick Bowe in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} "Boxing - Riddick Bowe: 100 million for six fights", Sport-Bild from February 3, 1993, p. 45

predecessor	Office	successor
Evander Holyfield	Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( WBC ) November 13, 1992-14. December 1992	Lennox Lewis

predecessor	Office	successor
Evander Holyfield	Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) November 13, 1992–6. November 1993	Evander Holyfield

predecessor	Office	successor
Evander Holyfield	Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( IBF ) November 13, 1992–6. November 1993	Evander Holyfield

predecessor	Office	successor
Herbie Hide	Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( WBO ) March 11, 1995–1. March 1996	Henry Akinwande