Riddick Bowe
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Bowe in 1993
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| Real name | Riddick Lamont Bowe | ||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Big Daddy | ||||||||||||
| Rated at | Heavyweight | ||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) | ||||||||||||
| Reach | 81 in (206 cm) | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
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August 10, 1967 Brooklyn, New York City New York, U.S. |
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| Stance | Orthodox | ||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 45 | ||||||||||||
| Wins | 43 | ||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 33 | ||||||||||||
| Losses | 1 | ||||||||||||
| No contests | 1 | ||||||||||||
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Riddick Lamont Bowe (born August 10, 1967) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 1996, and from 2004 to 2008. He reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion for eleven months in 1992, and as an amateur he won a silver medal in the super heavyweight division at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
After turning professional in 1989, Bowe went on to become a two-time world heavyweight champion. In 1992 he won the undisputed WBA, WBC, and IBF titles by defeating then-unbeaten former undisputed cruiserweight champion Evander Holyfield. Bowe was stripped of the WBC title later that year after refusing to fight archrival Lennox Lewis, to whom he lost in the finals at the 1988 Olympics. This left the undisputed championship fragmented until 1999. In a rematch with Holyfield in 1993, Bowe lost the WBA and IBF titles in what would be his only professional defeat. He later regained a portion of the world heavyweight championship in 1995, defeating Herbie Hide for the then-fledgling WBO title. In doing so, Bowe became the first boxer in history to have won the titles of all four major sanctioning bodies—the WBA, WBC, IBF, and WBO—and remains the only heavyweight to do so.
Bowe retired from the sport in 1996, making a low-key return in 2004, but has been inactive since 2008. In a 2010 article by BoxingScene, Bowe was ranked the 21st greatest heavyweight of all time. In 2015, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Bowe was born on August 10, 1967, the twelfth of his mother Dorothy Bowe's thirteen children. Bowe was born and raised in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. His brother Henry died of AIDS, and his sister Brenda was stabbed to death by a drug addict during an attempted robbery.
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