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Riddick Bowe vs. Michael Dokes
Riddick Bowe vs. Michael Dokes, billed as "The Homecoming", was a professional boxing match contested on February 6, 1993 for the WBA, IBF and ''Lineal'' heavyweight world championships. This was Bowe's first defense of the titles he had won from Evander Holyfield, while Dokes was trying to join Floyd Patterson, Muhammad Ali, and Tim Witherspoon as the only fighters to regain a piece of the heavyweight title after having lost it.
The fight took place at Madison Square Garden and was broadcast by HBO.
==Background==
On November 13, 1992, Bowe defeated Holyfield to become the undisputed world heavyweight champion. The World Boxing Council ordered Bowe to defend against Lennox Lewis, the man who had defeated Bowe at the 1988 Olympics to capture the gold medal for Canada, in his first defense as its mandatory challenger. However, since both sides had been in a massive dispute over terms of the fight (especially the purse), Bowe refused and in a memorable press conference on December 14, 1992, Bowe and his manager Rock Newman tossed the WBC belt into a wastepaper basket with Bowe stating "If Lennox wants this belt, he must get it out of the garbage and then we'll be calling him the garbage picker."〔(Bowe Trashes His WBC Belt ), N.Y. Times article, 1992-12-15, Retrieved on 2013-05-16〕
Shortly after, Bowe then announced that he would defend his WBA, IBF, and lineal titles against 34-year-old former WBA Heavyweight champion Michael Dokes〔(Bowe to face Dokes at Garden Feb. 6 ), N.Y. Times article, 1992-12-23, Retrieved on 2013-05-16〕 After struggling with substance abuse, Dokes launched a successful comeback late in 1987 and proceeded to win his next eight fights en route to being named ''The Ring'' magazine's Comeback fighter of the Year for 1988, winning the WBC Continental Americas title and securing a number one contenders match with a then up-and-coming Evander Holyfield with the winner earning the right to challenge Mike Tyson. Dokes took Holyfield to the tenth round before falling to a TKO. Dokes' comeback was temporarily stopped when Donovan "Razor" Ruddock knocked him unconscious in the fourth round of a 1990 bout where Dokes lost the WBA Intercontinental championship.〔(Ruddock Knocks Dokes Unconscious in Fourth ), L.A. Times article, 1990-04-05, Retrieved on 2013-05-16〕 He returned in late 1991 and fought a series of journeyman fighters, recording nine bouts with nine wins, five by knockout, before facing Bowe.
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