Riddick Bowe vs Jorge Luis Gonzalez billed "Mortal Enemies" MGM Grand Commemorative Limited Edition $5 Gaming Chip, 17th June 1995, MGM Grand, Las Vegas.

Condition mint

Bowe W KO 6
Gonzalez was knocked out for nearly 3 minutes by a overhand right

Price: £35

The six-foot five-inch Riddick Bowe, the possessor of a lethal right hand as well as the most irrepressible sense of humor of any heavyweight champ since Muhammad Ali, won the undisputed world championship when he defeated Evander Holyfield in the fall of 1992. In the year that followed, he took on an unofficial role as boxing's goodwill ambassador, contributing money and labor to relief efforts in Somalia and lending his voice to the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. After losing to Holyfield in 1993, Bowe began to fight his way back toward boxing's center stage, picking up the WBO title in the process. In November 1995 he successfully defended his crown against Holyfield, completing a trio of fights that have been compared, for their savage artistry, to the three classic battles between Ali and Joe Frazier that took place in the 1970s.