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...from the event and has traveled with bodyguards ever since. (It apparently has not distracted her; she won the women's championship at the nationals last weekend.) The vulnerability of even 200-lb. bruisers was demonstrated sensationally last November, when a parachutist disrupted the heavyweight championship bout between Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe in Las Vegas...
...shocking and bizarre upset in Las Vegas, challenger Evander Holyfield took back the heavyweight boxing crown in a decision over previously undefeated champ Riddick Bowe. The fight was interrupted for 20 minutes during the seventh round when a parachutist came down into the outdoor ring at Caesars Palace. He landed on the ropes, bounced into the $800 ringside seats, was pummeled by irate spectators and wound up in the hospital in fair condition. Bowe's pregnant wife Judy fainted and had to be taken away, but her husband, for understandable reasons, was not told. Holyfield became the third fighter (after...
...champ has fought twice since taking the title from Holyfield, but he barely worked up a sweat to achieve first- and second-round knockouts against over-the-hill pugs Michael Dokes and Jesse Ferguson. Looking beyond this Saturday's fight, some fight fans think they might see Bowe under some strain in a matchup with Lennox Lewis, the British boxer who defeated him in the 1988 Olympics. Lewis, another 6-ft. 5-in. power tower, inherited one of Bowe's three heavyweight titles after Bowe and his manager-mentor, Rock Newman, rejected the World Boxing Council's timetable...
These days Bowe has little choice but to keep his guard up. A month after defeating Holyfield, Bowe signed a six-fight contract with Time Warner Sports that could earn him as much as $100 million if he retains his title. And if that's not enough incentive, there is the challenge of breaking the record set by Rocky Marciano, who retired undefeated after 49 fights. "I want to take my place in history," Bowe admits. "I need 15 fights to tie Marciano's record and 16 to beat it." After that, he says, he too will retire...
...point where he could contemplate buying a $10 million plane. Because Newman refused to make an alliance with one of the big-time boxing promoters like Don King or Bob Arum, he had to pay expenses for Bowe's fights out of his own pocket. By the time the Holyfield fight came around, Newman had exhausted his savings, sold his BMW and borrowed from friends to invest more than $300,000 in his fighter. Those days of debt are gone. This month, construction will begin on the $6.6 million house Bowe is building in Fort Washington, Maryland, where he moved...