Riddick Bowe : The Best I've Faced

Interesting that he singles out Herbie Hide as such a standout in terms of power.

His comments on Pinklon Thomas's jab are interesting as well.

 

Not really surprising that Holyfield figures so much in Bowe's choices. He was the probably the best fighter, still more or less in his prime, that Bowe ever fought.

Would be interesting to see how Bowe fares if Holyfield had to rank the best opponents that he fare in the different catagories?

 

The Holyfield wins are the most important and biggest things in Bowe's carrier.
Can somebody imagine bad words by Bowe about Holy?
Try to imagine the following thoughts about the mighty Evander:
-He was weak and featherfisted.He couldn't knock the 42 years old Holmes and
the 42 years old Foreman out.The glass-chinned Moorer beat him.
His chin is overrated his fight against the bum Bert Cooper proves this.
Oh yes Golota! He was the best. He was much more harder puncher than
the weak Evander.Golota was a tough dude.He was much more tougher than the
genetical skinny chicken Evander. Haha!!!.
-I think Bowe never wanna say similar things.
But unfortunatelly the Golota fights showed Bowe is overrated.
The Holyfield "mania" can't change this.

 

Golota beat him from pillar to post, consistently quicker off the jab, outworked and out-thought him… not a mention.

 

Bowe was 27 years old and coming off the greatest victory of his career when Golota beat him in every aspect of the game except self-control.

 

Where is the Pierre Coetzer who failed to follow the script so that Bare Ass Bowe was forced to low blow him into defeat...

Or the masterful Tubbs who outslicked and outquicked Bowe at his past prime form?

Or does Bowe merely follow the form of other champs and is the worst commentator on his own career?

 

Lewis would of been his pick but Chicken Bowe was scared of Lennox's right hand of doom.

 

Best jab certainly seems likely.

 

What differience does the fight before make?

Douglas was in the best shape of his life against Tyson and was in the worst shape of his ilfe in his very next fight where he got taken out of the ring on a gurney after only 3 rounds.

Bowe was in woeful shape and unprepared for Golota. He said "How do you train for a bum?" Fuch was sick of him. He weighed over 250lbs.

Golota was focused and in his prime under the guidance of great Lou Duva.

A fight is 12 rounds. Doesn't matter what you claim Golota did , the fact of the matter is he couldn't make it past 7 rounds fight 1.

He could give it to Bowe but he couldn't take it back. Bowe made the adjustment to bring the pressure as the fight went on. Golota couldn't get him out of there and he could not handle Big Daddy walking him down so tapped out.
Golota was down, hurt and bloodied. He could take no more of Bowe , he lost and thats the bottom line.

Lets not even bother to talk about the second bout. Bowe was sad to see in that fight.

 

Agree with your first point and the second one would certainly be interesting because Bowe is the only fighter to have beaten Holyfield twice.

 

Had to watch Bowe vs Hide again to see if what Bowe was referring to about Hide being the best puncher he had faced was evident.

Hide won the first 2 rounds and was on the way to winning the 3rd when Bowe dropped him twice. The sign of things to come as in all Bowe dropped him 7 times before Hide's corner instructed him to stay down. Hide landed quite a few flurries on Bowe, but the biggest pain he caused him was the head butt he planted on him in the 2nd round.

 

Hide survived for so long because he ran for his life. If he wasn't on his bike he would of been gone in the first few rounds.