Riddick Bowe To Return In Exhibition Bout

By: Sean Crose

The checklist of fighters desirous to return to the ring is rising and rising since Mike Tyson’s extremely profitable exhibition bout towards Roy Jones late final fall. For now, one other former heavyweight king is planning to come back again to the game. Riddick Bowe, the early 90s heavyweight champ and basic foil of Evander Holyfield, is ready to field once more in October. Sure, at 53 years of age, the fighter often known as “Huge Daddy” shall be dealing with a but to be named opponent. In response to TMZ, Bowe has signed on with a company referred to as “Celeb Boxing” for the bout.

Bowe was 31-0 with 27 knockouts when he first met Holyfield for the undisputed heavyweight championship in 1992. The struggle was a basic, which Bowe ended up profitable by unanimous choice. Bowe threw away the WBC heavyweight title when it was demanded he struggle Lennox Lewis, then went on to separate a pair of rematches with Holyfield throughout the next years. Afterwards, Bowe received two wildly controversial fights towards Andrew Golota after the eccentric Golota was disqualified on each events. Though he fought and received 3 times within the twenty first century, Bowe was by no means once more a serious power at heavyweight.

Now that he’s coming again – reportedly for an exhibition bout – Bowe needs to sq. off towards some notable names. In a social media publish, asserting the struggle, Bowe introduced up names like Holyfield’s and Mike Tyson’s. The reality, although, is that the person within the video doesn’t seem like he belongs inside a boxing ring lest he’s coaching others. Bowe’s already been declared to have suffered mind harm and there’s actually no good purpose for the person to need to undergo any extra ring associated punishment. Nonetheless, the game acts like a siren music to those that as soon as discovered glory in it.

What’s extra, with novelty fights being all the trend proper now, it’s solely pure for some to need to regain previous glory – and maybe a former supply of earnings. Somebody, nonetheless, may get harm in considered one of these occasions, whether or not it’s an over the hill legend or a child from social media making an attempt to make a buck and get some consideration. As has been mentioned many instances earlier than “you don’t play boxing.” Nonetheless, so long as persons are prepared to pay, the extra of these kind of fights we’ll in all probability be seeing in a minimum of the close to future.