What happened following their respective triumphs in Seoul, where Lewis won the super-heavyweight gold and Marcus captured the middleweight silver medal, couldn't be more diverse. The big money never materialized. He did get a world title shot, against the man who beat him in Seoul, Henry Maske, but the outcome was crushing. When I was losing weight to get down to 175, I wasn't losing fat. There's no liquid in your body.
People die from it.
The Toronto Sun visited Marcus in Virginia Beach back in 1995, prior to his title shot against Maske in Frankfurt. He was friendly and co-operative, but strangely quiet, almost haunted. Little did anyone know, beside his trainer and his wife, Sharmain, of the agony he was going through to make weight. Upon returning home, he was strongly advised by doctors to give up the sport or move up a weight class. So he did, to 190 pounds, cruiserweight.