Foreman, however, would eventually be stripped of both the WBA and IBF titles after refusing to fight Tony Tucker and Axel Schulz respectively.
First, Lewis took on WBC's number one ranked heavyweight Tony Tucker and defeated him by a lopsided unanimous decision.
Lennox Lewis vs. Tony Tucker, billed as "Star Spangled Glory", was a professional boxing match contested on May 8, 1993 for the WBC Heavyweight Championship.
•
Though George Foreman had been brought up by Lewis as a possible opponent, he ultimately agreed to face the WBC's number one contender Tony Tucker in his first defense.
After his victory, Foreman hoped for a potential superfight with Mike Tyson once Tyson was released from prison, however the WBA demanded that he face mandatory challenger Tony Tucker.
His previous title fight was against Tony Tucker in 1987, in which he was TKO'd in the 10th round.
Tony Blair | Tony Bennett | Tony Award | Tony Curtis | Tony Scott | Tony Conrad | Tony Cragg | Tony Hawk | Tony | Tony Benn | Tony Kushner | Tony Danza | Tony Blackburn | Tony Rice | Tony Allen | Tanya Tucker | Tony Robinson | Tony Visconti | Tony Stewart | Tony Soprano | Tony Hawks | Tony Orlando | Tony O'Reilly | Tony La Russa | Tony Hawk's American Wasteland | Tony Allen (musician) | Sophie Tucker | Tony Joe White | Tony Hancock | Tony Millionaire |
After his loss to Bowe, Hide fought twice in 1996, winning both by KO against Michael Murray and Frankie Swindell before earning another shot at the now-vacant WBO title in June 1997 against 38-year old one-time IBF title holder Tony Tucker, despite Tucker losing three of his previous five fights.
Three of the gang, Pat Tate, Tony Tucker and Craig Rolfe, would eventually meet an abrupt and bloody end in December 1995, when they were shot to death in a Range Rover on a farm track in Rettendon, in what are known as the Rettendon Triple Murders.
He started work as a bouncer in East London, where he became involved with Pat Tate and Tony Tucker, both of whom worked as large scale dealers in ecstasy during the rave era in the late 1980s.