Prime Riddick Bowe vs Prime Vitali Klitschko

Bowe was shot to pieces against Golota. Just look at his balance or body structure. It speaks volums of your incompetence that you are unable to reognize that.

See, it is easy to be unfair. If you want to play it that way, look when Vitali stepped up his competition, he quit against light punching Byrd.

 

Bowe was shot to pieces because Golota knocked the hell out of him. He had no balance because Golota clipped him behind the ear. I don't buy all of that. Bowe was super confident going into the first one, then, after he got splattered it was that he "undertrained". The second time round he'd "overtrained".

Sure after he injured his arm. Can't help that. Where you could criticize Vitali was for not rematching Byrd, and erasing the loss.

 

His body structure looked liked ****. He threw right hands and was off balance, without Golota even doing anything.Bowe came in terribly overweight for the first fight and was severely weight drained for the 2nd fight. Your views on the Golota-Bowe fight are way off.

And since you are not willing to acknowledge the obvious, I would say the Vitali injury is just an excuse. Byrd was getting to him and Vitali quit.

 

So, immediately after his greatest career victory, he was shot to pieces?

Cool story, brah.

 

You mean the Holyfield who threw like 5 ounches a round and had heart problems.Nice try

 

Vitali's defence was even worse than Bowe's. The height and longer reach of Bowe renders Vitali's lean back defence redundant.

Bowe had a defence , not a great one , but it was there. Vitali was a fairly easy guy to counter due to his low hanging arms and very limited movement up top.

Bowe slipping a jab and countering a right hand


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What heart problems? That was his excuse from 2 fights before. Did he also beat Mercer with heart problems. I thought Benny Hinn cured him?

 

This is a mismatch really.

You got a guy who lost the biggest fight in his life cause he didn't know how to fight on the inside and thus got destroyed by an old, fat lewis, facing the best inside fighting shw?

 

You can criticize Vitali for a lot of things but not this. Keep walking pal.

 

How many punches did Holyfield throw per round? Just langushing on the inside.But according to you that is normal Holyfield. A blind man could see Holy had a health issue. Foreman was screaming for the fight to be stopped.

 

I think Lewis exposed some flaws in Vitali's defense though. Vitali got repeatidly caught with the overhand right. Bowe has a great overhand right too.

 

Man, I gotta get out of this thread ... Yes Bowe had a decent overhand right - but he could also look awful with it like against Golota. I guess we're not going to find a middle ground here. I see Vitali as a level above Bowe, and obviously you guys see Vitali as ripe for the picking for Bowe. Gonna leave it here.

 

Difficult to say wether prime Vitali could have beaten prime Bowe because we have never seen prime Vitali against
an elite level heavyweight in his prime, the only elite level heavyweight he fought against was an out of prime
Lennox Lewis and he fought against small fringe contenders for the most time of his career.

He would have a good chance to beat him nonetheless, it would be a 50-50 fight in my opinion.

 

Vitali was in his absolute prime against both Lewis and Byrd. He lost against past prime Lewis and lost against Byrd who took the fight on two weeks notice.

He was primed and better prepared than those two guys and he still lost. They just so happened to be the two best guys he ever fought.

 

Vitali Klitschko would destroy Riddick Bowe and i say this as a Bowe fan, Bowe loves guys that come to him. He'd have to hunt Vitali down and He'd get battered doing so