What is the highest Bowe could be ranked?

Top 15 barely.

He loses the Holyfield trilogy and he's not even top 20.

 

I agree that outside Holyfield twice there aren´t names good enough.....but even so:

-Dokes (I know, past prime...but he was decent yet....clearly not shot)
-Coetzer ( very good fighter, H2H would be tough against many)
-Tony Tubbs (close but Bowe won...against a great version of Tubbs)

Seldon, Thomas, Bert Cooper, Gonzalez, Hide....were all good names and very competitive fighters......

 

Doesn't make my top 15-20, but you could argue him as such depending how much you value his few noteworthy wins, namely the first Evander fight.

I think resume breaks down as such...

Holyfield I








Holyfield III


Hide
Golota X2-He did win these fights though not very impressively, surviving and keeping the pressure on the mental Golota until he ****ed himself.

Cooper
Coetzer
Mathis Jr
Gonzales

 

The Dokes that fought Bowe was probably the worst heavyweight title challenger I have seen in 2 decades. He was completely out of it when he entered the ring.

Coetzer was fairly toothless, lacking any real power. Hell, Wimpy Halstead took him distance. He was tough as granite but had no real offense. Still, he didn't follow the script and Bowe resorted to lowblowing him into submission. It can be well argued that Coetzer never beat a world class heavyweight.

I am not exactly sure that "great" and "Tubbs" belong in the same sentence, but Bowe edged that one out on my card.

 

Okay, but we can say many things like that about others.......
How do you rate this in comparison with Liston´s resume ? There isn´t a disparity between both to me when we compare resumes.....

Yeah, Tubbs wasn´t great in nothing.....but I loved his performance, and even so Bowe edged that one IMO....

 

I think I have him around 15-20. You could argue the case that he could beat most heavyweights prime for prime, includng Tyson, Frazier, Holyfield, Louis and a few more but I'd pick Foreman, Ali, Lewis and Holmes to beat him.

 

At best he just scrapes in to my top 15. His resume simply lacks the depth to rank him any higher.

 

Around 15th.

I tend to overrate him sometimes because I like Holyfield. :conf

 

Probably 14th, ahead of Liston at 15th.

 

For shame.

Does your mother know you think such things?

 

My mother hates the violent sport of boxing. :-(

 

Even she, bless her soul, knows Liston ranks higher than Bowe.

 

My Magic 8 Ball.