Riddick Lamont Bowe is an American boxer. He is a former two-time world heavyweight champion, having first won the WBA, WBC and IBF titles in 1992, thus becoming undisputed heavyweight champion.

He was born and raised in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, which at the time was one of New York City\'s most infamous slums. His brother Henry died of AIDS and in 1988 his sister Brenda was stabbed to death by a drug addict during an attempted robbery.