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Lewis: Bowe wants to fight now but we’re too old!

Phil D. Jay
WBN Editor
Former champ tells of social network challenge

Lennox Lewis has stated that former rival Riddick Bowe has been pestering him for a fight in the pro's recently via social networking sites, although the former undisputed heavyweight king has reiterated the fact that he is happily retired.

The 46 year-old, who retired in 2003 after winning the sport’s biggest prize three times, recalled the the pair’s highly-publicised spat in 1992 when the then WBC champion Bowe threw his belt in the trash rather than face Lewis, who beat him in the 1988 Olympics.

“Riddick really ran from me,” Lewis told Sky Sports’ Ringside show.

“Rock Newman, his manager, realised that if he boxed me in the professionals his gravy train would be ended because I definitely wanted to knock him out.

“It's disappointing we didn't get that fight. I speak to him on Facebook and Twitter and he says: ‘Let's have that match now’. But we're too old,” he added.

Bowe is now 43 and has previously announced his intention to make a comeback in 2012. The American is targeting a challenge against one of the dominant Klitschko brothers and is rumoured to currently be in training for his 46th pro contest.

Lewis has been vocal in the past about former greats fighting on when they clearly can’t perform like they used to and it will be interest to hear what the Londoner makes of Bowe when he makes his eagerly-anticipated return this year.

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