Wladimir Klitschko vs Riddick Bowe - in their primes - Who wins?

It took him 6 to stop Hide...
The same Hide who was getting KOed by glancing blows cold.

 

Here's Bowe vs Holyfield I, the consensus best performance of Bowe's career.

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Entertaining fight for sure. But now look how open Bowe is to right hands, how stuck in mud his feet are, how many lunging left hooks he whiffs because his rhythm's so predictable and he doesn't set his feet properly. This is the so-called prime version of Bowe that's meant to beat Wlad?

Like I said earlier in the thread, Bowe looked great against smaller targets that'd come right at him. Those ripping uppercuts, those chopping right hands. Just brutal stuff. But keep him on the outside and he looked like garbage. Slow, plodding, eminently hittable. Wlad would jab his head off and give him serious brain damage with all the flush right hands he'd be landing.

 

Wlad in prime years basically solved the hw boxing puzzle which made him quite boring to watch for casuals. Bowe never really managed that during his brief reign, the fact he was retired at 29 by a wannabe truck driver is surely empirical evidence.

 

If criticizing Bowe's performance and win against Holyfield is meant to provide an argument for a Wlad win , then you are setting that argument up for complete failure.

If performances against other opponents are something to go on , then WK doesn't stand a chance against Bowe since he was destroyed by Brewster , dropped / struggled with Williamson and dropped / went life n death with Sam Peters.
If Peters puts him down 3 times , Bowe most certainly keeps him down.

Then you have the Povetkin performance which showed Wlad is hopeless against a skilled aggressor. The only reason he beat Povetkin is because of the size advantage he used to drape over Povetkins back every time he closed in , which happened almost every time Povetkin moved forward.
A 6'6 Povetkin blows Wlad apart and its arguable if Povetkin would have even lost if he had a ref that favored him opposed to the ref that blatantly favored Wlad

Wlads ceiling was not having the skill to outbox Povetkin in a fair and clean manner since Povetkin is the best he he ever beat , that means his talent level is Povetkin level or bellow.
Holyfield is a level above Povetkin and Bowe is a level above Holyfield.

The fight Bowe and even Holyfield would take to Wlad , is one he doesn't have the mental fortitude for. That's one of the main reasons why he wouldn't beat either , especially Bowe. A panic stricken Wlad would not be able to hold it together against a animal like Bowe who is arguably the most skilled insider fighter out of all the SHWs.

 

Folding like a house of cards against journeyman Purrity and Brewster.......getting blitzed by a flash in the pan Golfer who never ever won a meaningful fight before or after icing WK......going life and death with unskilled caveman Peter......getting decked by that bum Touch of sleep......going octupussy with that Russian Hype job Povetkin who never won a meaningful fight .ever. ........going on a track meet with the Heavyweight fraud of the century, David"bluetoe" Haye.....

Stunk the joint out for almost a decade.....could not even get a fight in the US so had to peddle in Europe against sub par fighters...

Conclusion : Bowe by flat out KO........WK will go into total panic mode a la Brewster.

 

Because that’s the only night Bose was motivated and put it all together.
Bowe coulda outjabbed the klitsckos on the outside and went inside to stop either.

 

I admit I'm biased in favor of Lewis, I personally believe him to be H2H the best HW ever.

 

There's no instances of him ever outjabbing a world class jabber. He couldn't even out jab Golota.

 

That's hardly Wlad at his best though, is it?

And a six foot five version of Holyfield blows Bowe apart.

Not sure where you're going with that argument.

I assume you think Golota is a level above Bowe as well. In which case Lamon Brewster isn't as terrible as you make him out, is he?

 

I feel Wlad`s hand speed was as quick as Bowe`s and his power about the same too, plus his body was far more athletic.

 

Wlad was a far better fighter than Bowe ever was, Riddick was far easier to hit than Wlad. Bowe`s high workrate might have been a problem though and he certainly had the powerr to knock Wlad out, Wlad would probably win 2/3 match ups here and would do much better than Bowe could have v former elite heavies from past eras, Bowe realy wasn`t that good, but hasd a good reach, quick hands and power which always make him a threat.

 

People need to rewatch Wlad - Chambers: it took Wlad 12 rds to get out of there a limited contender that Bowe would have quickly walked through in a few rds.

 

All you wrote is correct: but look how Bowe never takes a backwards step and punches with you, gladly taking one to land one: he landed about 100 flush shots vs Holy: against Wlad, he would only need to land a few and Wlad would instantly go.

There's a reason they say the ability to take a punch is the most important ability in boxing.

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He also didn’t train for Golota

 

Yes Really. Name something in Bowe’s arsenal that was better than Prime Wlad. Ok uppercut I’ll give you that one. But Jab, Right hand, left hook, POWER, Strength, Hand Speed, Foot Speed, IQ... All favor Wlad.