Lennox Lewis vs. Riddick Bowe in Gold-Medal Round at 1988 Seoul Olympic Games
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- Throwing it back to 1998 and the Seoul Olympic Games, when Canadian boxer Lennox Lewis outfought Riddick Bowe, of the United States, in men's Super Heavyweight final at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games.
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Boxer Lennox Lewis Wins Super-heavyweight Gold at Seoul 1988
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How can you stop that fight ???!! That's Insane !!
Seoul 1988 gave birth to the following world champions: Roy Jones Jr., Henry Maske, Ray Mercer, Lennox Lewis, Riddick Bowe, Michael Carbajal and Kennedy McKinney.
Yeah, 1988 seoul olympiad had great futur talents of boxing but scandalous results : Roy Jones Jr vs the korean boxer and Riddick Bowe vs Lennox Lewis
@@mallokribi3326 scandalous? Lewis was giving him a Beating in Round 2.
🦁 Soft spoken Lennox Lewis at his best was the total package. When he fought seriously he was pretty much untouchable. The last undisputed Super Heavyweight champion emerged as cream of the crop against some of the biggest punchers in Heavyweight history.
Lewis avenged his only two defeats by knockout. He didn't make excuses for his only two losses, he said, "It's Heavyweights, you can get caught, but i won the rematches in style," and "Show me a Heavyweight Champion without a loss and i'll show you a fighter that fought a lot of nobodies."
Lewis haters always say, "but he got knocked out twice ha-ha." Well i say, "Mike Tyson got knocked out FIVE times ha-ha, and Ali lost his best 30 years of retirement from having his faculties traumatized for an entire decade. Watching his head used as catchers mitt 100,000 times was ha-ha. IT'S NOT HOW YOU START, IT'S HOW YOU FINISH."
57 year old Lennox is the GOAT. To hear him talk so clearly and eloquently after going up against 18 Heavyweight Champions is remarkable.
The 18 HW Champions Lewis faced: Vitali Klitschko, Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson, Shannon Briggs, Frank Bruno, Tony Tucker, Hasim Rahman, Oliver McCall, Mike Weaver, Henry Akinwande, Tommy Morrison and Ray Mercer were later recognized as WBO champions, British HW champion Gary Mason, European HW champion Jean Chanet, Commonwealth HW champion Derek Williams, Canada HW champion Razor Ruddock, IBF/WBF HW champion Michael Grant, and WBC International HW champion David Tua...*[[ technically not all were 'World' champions but champions nonetheless ]]. Other notable mentions; Olympic HW Silver medalist Riddick Bowe, Olympic HW Gold medalist Tyrell Briggs, Andrew Golota, Zeljko Mavrovic, Frans Botha and Phil Jackson.
Name another Super Heavyweight with a better resume? Only person i can think of is Wladimir Klitschko.
Grow up and stick to netball or baseball. Deluded. How many of those were in their prime. Not many so it don't count. Ali fought guys in their prime.
@@user-kq9vv5tj1u *What does little low-power Cassius Clay have to do with Super Heavyweights Lennox Lewis and Riddick Bowe in the 1988 Olympics?*
Puncher of The Century Earnie Shavers is known for being the hardest puncher in Heavyweight boxing history. He scored 69 knockout wins, including 23 in the first round.
So powerful, both Joe Frazier and George Foreman told boxing writer Jerry Eisenberg they would never fight Shavers. Real fighters knew enough to avoid him. His incredible one punch power made him more than dangerous. George Foreman told him personally when Earnie lobbied for a fight, "hell no." Joe Frazier told Shavers bluntly when Shavers asked him for a shot, "No way, Earnie.”
Hall of Fame and all time greats Ali and Holmes both said Shavers power, especially his one punch power, was simply unrivaled. But they, and others, also said a lot more..
Angelo Dundee, the great trainer, said "Earnie wasn't really a good boxer, but God, his power was amazing."
Muhammad Ali said after his match with Shavers, "Earnie hit me so hard, he shook my kinfolk back in Africa"
And when fighters had to meet him, they left in awe. Tex Cobb said "Earnie could punch you in the neck with his right hand and break your ankle." He also said, "if a man hit any harder than Earnie I'd shoot him."
Ron Lyle: "Hey man, that's the hardest I've ever been hit in my life. And George Foreman could punch, but none of them could hit like Earnie Shavers did. When he hit you, the lights went out. I can laugh about it now, but at the time it wasn't funny."
Larry Holmes, comparing Shavers to Tyson, said "Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter, including Mike Tyson. He hit me and I was face down on the canvas hearing saxophonist Jimmy Tillis."
Jimmy Young, who was knocked cold by Shavers in his first fight, but survived the second, said "I was not gonna get tagged by him again, no sir!"
Nor were fighters and trainers the only ones who saw and marveled at Shavers sheer overwhelming power. Hall of Fame sports journalist Jerry Izenberg said of Shavers, "rarely did Earnie hit anyone below the neck; he was a headhunter and a good one. For me, Shavers was the greatest one-punch hitter I have ever seen."
"However, while Shavers struck serious fear into his opponents, such freakishly big hitting power had its drawbacks for the man himself," said Kenny Rainford.
“Being such a big puncher actually hurt my career,” says Shavers. “I relied on my power too much. I wish I’d had trainers that could have taught me more about combination punches."
“I used to gas out in five or six rounds because I put that much effort into my punches and it was impossible to punch for an entire fight without tiring out."
In the years that followed, Rainford met Ali and asked him about the famous fight with Shavers.
“I can not remember the last round of our fight,” Ali admitted. “He hit me so hard that for fourteenth round, I was on autopilot. I can’t remember a thing. When I’ve watched the fight back, and see the way I rallied in the fifteenth round, I was doing that off memory.”
Shavers reigned down on Ali with 266 punches that night. Afterwards, Rainford claims, the New York commission stated Ali would never fight in New York again after doctors discovered tears on his brain.
Eig's study, conducted by Arizona State speech scientists Visar Berisha and Julie Liss found that Ali's speech slowed by 16 percent after a 15-round bout with Ernie Shavers in 1977. Shavers, a brawler, landed 266 punches throughout the fight. If one fight had to be picked, Ernie Shavers inflicted the most damage.
Shavers is directly responsibly for the early retirements of Ron Asher, Frank Smith, Bunky Akins, Bill McMurray, Harold Carter, Eddie Parotte and Larry Sims, all of whom he knocked out and never fought again.
What a great referee. Must have had money on Lennox.
Well, really so precious and high defination video!! Rare to see, thumbs up~
It's funny how at the time this fight was taking place, Lennox's former sparring partner Mike Tyson had been the reigning Heavyweight Champion of the world for two years, having become champion at the ripe old age of 20 in 1986.
Tyson and Lewis weren't sparring partners, per se. They had a short sparring stint of a few days when Lewis and his trainer drove up to Catskills, NY to meet Tyson and find out what the fuss was all about with him. It was by no means a formal sparring partner that was hired by the trainer or someone from the same stable of fighters.
'88 is when Tyson became undisputed, lineal, unified World Champion. In late '86, he did win the WBC Title belt, but he wasn't undisputed because there were two other guys with the WBA and IBF Title belts, and another guy, Spinks, that had been stripped of his Title but was still viewed as lineal Champ and he was still undefeated.
88' was probably one of the best boxing class ever.
'88
No way. 1984, 1976 were the the best BY FAR
Lennox was definitely dominating here but that stoppage was abysmal, fight should've went on to a proper conclusion
I still don’t believe Bowe would have survived that Round, Lewis was throwing Bombs.
That point taken away from Bowe in the 1st round, and the first standing 8 count were BS as well. I can see giving Bowe a standing 8 after he was floored by the punch that led to the stoppage, but stopping the fight was a disservice to both fighters, the audience, and the Olympics
Lewis opened the second round very well but the stoppage was horrible. Bowe took the first round.
Defo a robbery
It don’t take a genius to understand Lewis is a meathead
That ref ruined our only chance at ever seeing these two go
Thank you for original audio and not adding music
Great quality!
lewis is underestimated. he deserves more respect.
I think he gets now TBH. Hes on most top 10 all time lists, that's props.
Even back then they questioned his heart. Even when it came time for him to fight Tyson, people questioned his heart.
Ridiculous
None of those who fought Lennox had respect for him.
@@greatbaba5072 Lennox beat every man in front of him including by rematch. Sharpened by Manny Steward, he was a freight train.
the man eating lion of tsavo is a savage beast!
That ref was shady!!! 💰🤣
Premature stoppage- absolutely ridiculous ref 💯
I don't consider this fight anything worth watching for gauging how a Lewis vs Bowe would have been in 1992. They both stunned each other and they were both exchanging well. I remember these times in those crappy olympic rules.
Too bad we will never know because Chicken Bowe was too scared to fight him.
@@rogerc23 So many people are wrong for this story.
Maybe Bowe was a bit scared of Lewis but not so much in my opinion.
The man who didn't want that fight was only Rock Newman (Bowe manager).
By the time with Bowe, he got a lot of money by fighting average boxer and a good popularity.
He knew that a fight against Lennox Lewis was a riscky fight for Bowe, so he run away.
Bowe wanted that fight because Lennox Lewis got on his nerves by saying that Bowe was a chicken and Lennox Lewis wanted to prove that he was the best.
We have a similar situation now with Anthony Joshua and Deontey Wilder.
Joshua similar to Riddick Bowe and Wilder similar to Lennox Lewis.
Eddy Hearn do the same thing that Rock Newman did
@@mallokribi3326 yes you make some good points. It was more Rock Newman scared his paydays would be over if they fought Lewis. That’s what chickens do after all.
Agreed. Plus there was a business move aspect to it: build up the interest in an eventual Lewis- Bowe showdown. Think Mayweather-Pacquio. Years in the making
@@mallokribi3326 A horrendous comparison. Wilder's team ducked Joshua. Anybody with a brain knows that
He wasn't even that hurt he got stunned Riddick Bowe they robbed him because he was American this was a fix because Bowe wasn't hurt
Maybe. Same Olympics as the ridiculous Jones and Carbajal decisions. Something was afoot that year.
Ref should not have stopped the fight. But Lewis would've probably still won.
I knew in this fight. Great things were ahead for Lewis, 💯
I don’t have a dog in this fight, and I’m not a huge fan of either, but that stoppage was garbage!
they do that in armature Olympic boxing. overly protective of fighters
Lennox Lewis is my favorite HW of all time. That stoppage and BOTH standing 8 counts were bullshit.
Let them FIGHT
I'm a big Bowe fan, but you're right- that's how Olympic boxing is refereed. Bowe had his chance and got beat. Would have loved to see a pro re-match.
Good fight , both got big shots in...Bowe s jab is like a right hand. I can see why the stoppage will bring so much debate
Terrible, terrible Ref.....
The 1988 Olympic boxing tournament was notoriously marred with controversy mainly for the horrendous judging decisions, but this was a clear example of an awful referee.
All credit to both boxers who both clearly came to win but only one of the counts you could say was justified and having watched the incident on repeat several times I still have no idea why Bowe was deducted a point. Also the stoppage was abysmal, no stoppage required.
It's such a shame that referee's of this abysmal standard were allowed to ref the biggest fights in amateur boxing......
Why stop the fight .
Olympic rules were very strict back then
The first round is always a feeler round to guage your opponents skills. Both each seemed to stagger each other in the first round but lennox seemed to land more clean shots and combos. The second round lennox seemed to adapt and rocked him right away staggering him and sending his head bouncing back and his body into the ropes. Then a minute later he did it again with a quick 2 hit combo. You gotta remember they got head gear on in a real fight hed be knocked out. I think thats why he didnt wanna fight lewis later on and threw the belt away he knew lennox was trouble figured him out in 2 rounds.
Bowe has a big heart
What a goddamn umpire Lewis helped
For those that say bowe ducked Lewis read below. He signed to fight him but Lewis was destroyed by Oliver McCall in 1994
Wrong!!!! There were four fantastic heavyweights in '92. They all agreed that there would be a tournament style way of getting the heavyweight belt. Bowe would fight Holyfield and Lewis would fight Razor Ruddock. The winners would fight each other for the heavyweight belt. Lennox pummeled Ruddock and Bowe defeated Holyfield. But after Bowe won, he ducked Lennox and forfeited the WBC belt. This had nothing to do with McCall. Just stop!
@TJ McKenzie there is this tool called Google. It's there bud. Rock Newman wanted a tune up after holyfield. They didn't want to let Him so he dumped their belt. Look that up too.
The fighter makes the championship.
@@Jeremy.G408 I don't need to look it up. I remember it like yesterday. There was an agreement that the winners of the two bouts would fight each other for the Heavyweight title and Chicken Bowe wimped out. That's why he had to forfeit the WBC belt. You can look up whatever you want but that's what happened.
@TJ McKenzie I watched the Olympic fight. Nothing in there to make me think bowe was terrified. It was just a money issue. Rock wanted bowe and him to get majority of money. They didn't agree. I refreshed memory and looked it up. Just as I recalled. As a fight fan I prefer they would have fought. As a business man I understand. Just like people give credit to Floyd jr for taking soft opponents and maximizing his earnings. Sucks for us fans but I understand rock newman and Mayweather. Just don't try to have it both ways in terms of your legacy when this stuff is mentioned. I don't blame you for putting bowe down but I highly doubt he feared Lewis.
@@Jeremy.G408 Ya, but he got knocked out by Lewis in the Olympics. If you have ANY pride at all, you're going to want to fight the one guy who made you look bad.
Bowe was a great fighter and was in phenomenal shape when he defeated Holyfield the first time (just look at the video of how ripped he was that fight). But he didn't have that work ethic for very long. He also bullied smaller fighters. When he went up against other giants, he struggled. He got destroyed by Golota.... TWICE. And lost to Lennox.
Lennox overlooked three of his opponents (McCall, Rahman and Klitschko), but when he was in a Showtime bout, he always stepped up and destroyed his opponent (Ruddock, Tyson, Golota, Holyfield, Bowe in the Olympics).
In a winner take all 100 million dollar bout, Lennox would've murdered Bowe. No doubt in my mind.
These guys were way bigger when they were Pro
This explains a lot and I feel for both boxers - they were denied justice through a referee that was clearly corrupt and incompetent - I hope they both find peace with each other as they both deserve that respect
lol, what?
@@Amethyst_Friend You can see that Bowe was dominating lewis in the first round, then the ref started to cold into it calling bowe incorrectly for fouls which affected his confidence, and also lifted lewis confidences. Because of the referees performance I don't believe think it allowed an accurate contest was allowed to develop and the result was not a true measure of the contest that should have happen, but was denied of both fighters. I believe Lewis deep down has a nagging suspicion that the ref helped him which would remove some satisfaction from the result, and Bowe rightly would feel predjucidec against. I think Bowe refused to fight lewis as a pro as a way of making this point. A sad and bitter feud that should never have happened - and a good case study in how corruption and/or incompetence can affect sport in a negative way. Lennox and Riddick are first class sportsman that deserve respect for their achievements and for each other.
@@johnflynn8336 well said man
The referee was horrible !!! He should never be aloud to Ref a fight ever again , the gold medal was on the line !! I’m a Lewis Fan but that fight should of never been stopped !!!
I totally agree... These guys have trained so hard and earned the right to fight at the highest level of amateur boxing but clearly the ref didn't get this memo.....
I always thought Lennox was British….didn’t know he was Canadian.
He was born there, moved to Canada in his preteen years where he learned to box
Grew up in Kitchener.
Lewis is British. He was born there but later moved to Canada where he learn to box and obtained dual citizenship.
After the Olympics he moved to the U.K on a permanent basis....
This is dreadful! Manny and Futch really brought out the best in these two.
The play by play is some of the worst ever! These guys keep yapping, missing hard punches and exchanges!!!
That was the worst stoppage Ive ever seen.
No reason for this stoppage. Terrible ref. Bowe was fine.
You dont understand Olympic boxing
Bowe almost got worked in there you crazy
No way you can judge the 88 Olympics between Lewis and Bowe to professional. They were kids right here. They both got way better. Lewis was a animal and Bowe went so hard in the paint. I still would've favored Bowe 5 years or so later 💯
Good job , Bowe got himself to blame
WTF!
1:14
Nah man that ref should have let them continue but Bowe didn't convince the ref he could continue.
I agree. Not picking sides but he should have let them work it out.
Lewis used to spar with the young Mike Tyson and hold his own so this was easy prey. Was a premature stoppage though
Cuba wasn't in those games. Stevenson could get a victory easily over Louis. But great victory at the end.
Cuba sided with North Korea who boycotted the games as North Korea (who considers themselves as Korea) wanted co-host status... The IOC declined this request and as such boycotted the games.
Lewis wins all day but that stoppage was awful
Ouch no wonder Bowe dodged Lewis in the pro's. PTSD from getting completely owned start to finish.
Bowe was robbed
I take that as a sarcasm...
It is exactly why they dodged Lewis. Bowes handlers admitted it after the fact. They felt Lewis would have the mental edge if they fought as pros. I would have let them fight but they definitely ducked Lewis as did Tyson. This was a weak stoppage though no clear winner here for me but it is amateur .
@Samuel Fagbemi "I'm not afraid of you, Lewis"
-Riddick Bowe
interpretation: bruh, you scared than a mofo
@@Ramzblood he was talking about ruddock
I think Lennox would have stopped him anyway but still ridiculous stoppage
This Was the same year as the ridiculous Jones-Park decision along with Michael Carbajal. There may have been corruption involved.
@@sebclot9478 Maybe but the outcome wasn’t going to be any different.
@@JJJ-io6sc I don't think that's a foregone conclusion at all. I have seen MUCH bigger Olympic Boxing comebacks than Bowe needed. My money on Lewis? Yes. Is it a sure thing? Not at all.
The ref should have not stop the fight smh Bowe wasn’t hurt his legs was strong.
Canadian???... Thought Lenox was representing the England...
I know bit confusing. His parents were Jamaican but he was born in England. When Lewis was 12 he and his mother moved to Canada
Ref saved Bowe from the humiliation of being knocked out. A shame they didn't face each other in the pros, but this was of course due to Bowe's camp refusing to fight Lewis and this video is a good indicator as to why.
@Google Wack Lewis handled Bowe in this one and Bowe shamelessly ran from him as a pro; he felt that power and he and his camp wanted nothing to do with it. I didn't say Bowe was getting humiliated, I said the stoppage prevented him the humiliation that was to come if the fight went on; he was going to get knocked out. He was hurt twice (especially the second time) quickly and early in the round and was just going to be battered down to the canvas. A very good stoppage to protect a clearly dazed fighter.
No doubt if bout not stopped Lennox might well have dropped him. Riddick showed no D or stamina here. He nosedived from the get-go in the 2nd.
Having a bad round doesn't negate a possible win. Bowe had the first round, Lewis clearly had the second. I don't understand why that first standing 8 was given, much less a stoppage.
Drink Champs sent me here
Bowe way superior. Better sparring. Ref killed Bowe desire to fight.
To my opinion, Lewis team has corrupted the ref.
The fight easily should’ve went on longer, but it’s pretty clear Lennox was Winning the fight. Bowe came out with nothing in that round.
@@VibeDoctor98 but the round wasn't finished yet Bowe was wobbled by Lewis and before he recovered Lewis attacked nothing out of the ordinary in a boxing match and knowing Bowe how he always came out stronger out of similar situations. Yes this stoppage was very scandalous . Bowe was robbed.
Pretty sure Mike Tyson would've thrashed them both at this time
Let's talk, how much money did take the ref from Lewis corner.
no match for 1988 Iron Mike..
Duh, they're legit amateurs. It think they turn pro the following year in 1989
Lewis is a crybaby and that ref should NEVER get in the ring again.
How is he a crybaby?
That was some bullshit stoppage
Bowe was cheated by the ref in this fight.
Lewis was a bully and Bowe was too afraid.
Chicken Bowe
and then disappears from canada for ever....
He was always British and a London Boy.You had him on loan.
Lewis was born in London and moved to Canada when he was 12.
Brexit lol!
😒
@@attilathehun0 What`s so funny about brexit?
This is why Bowe avoided Lewis during their pro days
Just horrible
Bowe did ok until the stoppage
Uno degli arbitraggi peggiori della storia, spero che l'avessero licenziato almeno
Awful referee.
Bad stoppage, Bowe was landing the uppercut and hook and Lewis obviously didn't hurt him that bad (check out the raised arms, bouncing Bowe). Bowe only turned down Lewis in the pros because his manager was a greedy person.
Chicken bowe running!
his manager wasn't greedy. it would have been stupid to fight lewis next instead of rematch holyfield for 10X more money. do you understand these guys in teh pros fight for money?
@@jamescaleb9676 This makes a LOT of sense, thank you James.
@@robjapan Bowe robbed.
perfect robbery. and the liar lewis spent his whole life bragging about this garbage.
garbage indeed . I took the Lewis fans word for it but when I watched for myself I got disappointed as every sports loving person should. This is a robbery and a disgrace.
The stoppage was bs but let’s be clear, Lewis was destroying Bowe in that 2nd round and likely would have won the fight anyway.
Bowe was just a young stringbean back then . He would have beat Lewis in the pros
Natural born comedian? Chicken Bowe flatly refused to get in the ring with Lewis. Threw belts in bin rather than take another kicking.
Bowe was robbed
@Vena yeah robbed of his bravery for the rest of his career
Scared Bowe was frightened to fight Lewis in the pro game!
Bowe destroyed by Lewis in this Olympic final.
Bowe looked awful !!
Lewis was a far far superior boxer!!
true
THIS FIGHT TELL S YOU WHY BOWE WOULD NEVER FIGHT LEWIS AGAIN COS WITHOUT WEARING HELMETS BOWE KNEW THAT LEWIS WOULD KNOCK HIM SPARK OUT HENCE THE NAME CHICKEN BOWE!!!!!
Bowe was robbed