Word: riddick
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When heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe steps into the ring, he is up against two invisible enemies. One is a reputation for playfulness that has earned him the nickname "Riddick-ulous Bowe." The other is the assumption that despite a professional record of 34 wins and no losses, this boxer has yet to get much of a workout...
...fight again -- if at all -- before the end of that year. Says Muhammad Nassardeen, a black businessman from Inglewood, California, who recently gave Bowe an award recognizing him as a positive role model for black youths: "If Tyson never fights again, it puts a little shadow on Riddick...
...example. He doesn't drink or do drugs. He married his high school sweetheart, Judy, a born-again Christian he knew for three years before they exchanged their first kiss. A share of his earnings is invested in trust funds to provide college educations for his children: Riddick Jr., 7; Riddicia, 5; Brenda, 3; and a baby due in April...
Despite Dorothy Bowe's strong talk and strong arm, several of the brothers and sisters got caught up in drugs and ran into trouble with the law. Riddick never did. A seventh-grade English teacher helped set him on a different path. When she brought in a video about Ali, Bowe was so impressed that he got into a fight with another boy in the class who liked Joe Frazier better. After breaking them up, the teacher told Bowe he was pretty good with his hands and should consider boxing himself. Within four years, he had won his first Golden...
Rock Newman, a fast-talking assistant to boxing promoter Butch Lewis, thought Bowe was getting a bum deal. When Lewis stopped pursuing the young fighter, Newman decided to manage Bowe himself. His first priority was to recruit Eddie Futch. The legendary trainer, who had heard the "Riddick- ulous" rumors, wasn't interested in the job. At 78, he told Newman, he didn't have the time to waste. But a meeting with Bowe changed his mind. "He was big and he looked like a man," says Futch. "But he was only 20, and I realized something that the others didn...