After Lewis Turns Down $11 Million, Bowe Fight Won’t Happen Until ’94
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LONDON — Lennox Lewis, the World Boxing Council heavyweight champion, has rejected a deal to fight Riddick Bowe for the undisputed title.
“The deal was $21 million for Bowe and a 50-50 split if the final purse went above $32 million,” Frank Maloney, who represents Lewis, said Tuesday. Lewis was guaranteed $11 million.
“We declined that, and the Bowe fight won’t happen until the summer of 1994,” Maloney said.
In a statement released through his manager, Rock Newman, Bowe, the International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Assn. champion, said Lewis is a “pitiful disgrace to the manly art of boxing. . . . Lennox Lewis is a pompous, arrogant, phony British punk who is simply afraid to fight me.”
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