Riddick Bowe Net Worth - Pulptastic

Publish date: 2024-05-04

Riddick Bowe’s Life and Career

Riddick Bowe was a two-time former world heavyweight champion who won his first WBA, WBC, and IBF in 1992. He was born on August 10, 1967 in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in a section of Brooklyn called Brownsville which was known as one of New York’s toughest slums. Bowe lost a brother to the AIDS virus and a sister from stab wounds after an attempted robbery in 1988.

As an amateur boxer, Bowe knocked out James Smith in just 4 seconds when he was 17 years old. He participated in the 1988 Seoul Olympics where he won a silver medal and was a winner of four New York Golden Gloves Championships from 1985-1988. Bowe began his professional boxing career in March of 1989 with a KO on novice Lionel Butler.

Bowe married his high-school sweetheart Judy on April 27, 1988, and they have five children. After years of alleged abuse by Bowe on both his wife and children, the couple separated in May of 1998, and Judy filed for a divorce. Five months after the separation, Bowe was arrested and later convicted of kidnapping his estranged wife and children. He served 17 months in a federal prison.

Despite his successful career, Bowe’s net worth is only $30,000, as he is unfortunately one of many athletes who have gone broke.

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