Primo Carnera vs Riddick Bowe

he lost twice, that's all he did

 

Bowe had talent but his big acomplishment was winning a serries of competative fights with a much smaller albeit great fighter, the rest of his resume is thinner than primo's. Altogether Bowe had very few competative fights - Tubbs, golota, hide, donald and not that many live contenders either.

Carnera always had a weight advantage too. The italian had a lot of barn stormers in small towns against fighters who were not "live" and dont count either but his resume is better than you would think. even writing off all the proven phony wins primo still had many competative fights. Sharkey, godfrey, schaff, neusel, bear cat wright, paulino uzcudun, jim maloney were good fights primo won.

Bowe never had an easy fight with a live fighter because he was easily frustrated. Both fighters are game but everyone forgets carnera had less problems with big guys. Bowe is better but he is not knocking out primo. If bowe gets frustrated it could become a farce.

 

Bowe ko 3 Carnera.

 

Bowe would absolutely devastate Carnera. Carnera has nothing to offer: terrible workrate, a laughable jab, zero footwork. The terms "defense" and "evading punches" don't exist in Carnera's world. He was a human punching bag. Some would view Nikolay Valuev as a naturally gifted boxer compared to Carnera but I won't got that far.

In any case, Bowe would destroy Carnera with a few straight right hands that Carnera would never see coming.

 

This is possibly the worst assesment of a fighter that I have ever read.

 

Bowe takes his head off, too quick, strong, powerful, technical

 

Does anyone dare to picture what devastation Bowe would unleash on Carnera if Primo was standing in front of him flat-footed like that with both hands down and zero upper body movement and evasive ability?

This would be a minor sparring session for Bowe.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5-zl-wkoqE[/ame]

 

Bowe TKO round 1 or 2 ;-)

 

there's no need for the 'lets not forget about Primo' etc etc

Bowe wins, thanks for reading

 

You assume that he would fight Bowe in exactly the same way as Max Baer? Also, you might want to take into acount the fact that Carnera had an injured ankle by this point in the fight.

I could just as easily post footage of Bowe being beaten silly by Andrew Golotta and say "what would Carnera do to sombody with such porous defence?"