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In 1992, the best heavyweights in the world, Evander Holyfield, Riddick Bowe, Lennox Lewis, and Razor Ruddock, signed to take part in a mini-tournament to settle the heavyweight succession.

It was not a binding contract, but there was a letter of intent for the winners of Bowe-Holyfield and Lewis-Ruddock to meet in a final showdown in 1993. It was similar to the HBO tournament in the mid-1980s that Michael Spinks pulled out of, which by the way, was the right thing for Spinks to do as he pocketed $5 million to fight Gerry Cooney and would then go on to fight Tyson in one of the biggest grossing money fights of that century.

The ’92 tournament, however, would not have that happy ending.

Bowe becomes the Champion

Before Bowe even won the titles from Holyfield on November 13, 1992 (Lewis had kayoed Ruddock two weeks earli