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

The men who had success against Bowe kept him at the end of their jab and didn't fight on the inside with him. Guess what Wlad's specialty is?

"Bowe could fight from the outside, mid range, and up close."

He never proved the first two against anyone worth a spit.

 

Right and then you realize my statement is still a fact. Corrie Sanders was never considered a top contender or a threat to beat any top contender. He destroyed Wlad in less than 4 minutes and Wlad's fans try to act like Sanders was a elite fighter. Sanders never beat anybody else in his career. Corrie Sanders also 37 years old when he smoked Wlad.
Bowe struggled against Donald by winning every round. Great and Wlad struggled against Ross Purrity a shorter guy who knocked him out. Wlad struggled against Corrie Sanders who is shorter than him and got knocked out. Wlad struggled against Lamon Brewster a shorter guy who knocked him out. So what is your point?

Wlad struggled against Sam Peter. Was knocked down 3 times by a club fighter. Wlad struggled against Bryant Jennings and couldn't stop him. I guess you forgot about that. Wlad coudln't stop Mariusz Wach even though 3 other guys did stop him. DaVarryl Williamson put Wlad on his but. I guess you are going to ignore anything that happened to Wlad to try to prove your sad little point.

Bowe never struggled with anybodies jab. Bowe was never stopped and only knocked down a few times in his career. 2 when he was a fat shot fighter. A prime Bowe would of never got knocked out or lost to Ross Purritty, Corrie Sanders, or Lamon Brewster.

Yeah Wlad would ruin Bowe just like he did Corrie Sanders. By being knocked out in 3 minutes and 20 seconds. There is nothing more annoying than casual fans and biased European boxing fans. You get dismissed.

 

Smart man.

 

I didn't read the whole thing, but I agree. Wlad would KO Bowe by range finding jab in the first. Great analysis.

 

Lol yep Wlad would knock out Bowe in the first like he did Corrie Sanders in the first. Great analysis. I ignored now.

 

Good boy

 

I think before going any further in this thread i'm gonna need to lawyer up.

 

writes this. and then writes -

 

so are you saying someone else won that fight for Bowe, or did he do it HIMSELF H2H?

 

does it only not work that way ONLY WHEN Wlads getting smashed up by middlers serially?

Or does it work other times too, when you critcise Bowe for his losses when not prime.

 

It's a boxing forum and the man was getting a little personal and nasty. I decided to hit back.

I doubt anyone's mind has been changed by all the words to-and-forth on this thread and everything I wanted to say on the Wlad-Riddick debate has now been said.

 

Lennox Lewis "He was tremendous fighter inside the ring and a great man outside of it."

http://lennoxlewis.com/lennoxs-statement-on-the-death-of-corrie-sanders/

"A fight Sanders pursued for many years which never came off was against Lennox Lewis. “I always wanted to get Lewis in the ring. I knew I had the beating of him. When I fought [Vitali] Klitschko, Lewis chatted a lot with me and he admitted that they avoided me and were concerned about fighting me. I appreciated that he was prepared to admit it to me personally. It meant that I must have meant something.”"

http://tss.ib.tv/boxing/articles-of-2005/3093-one-on-one-with-corrie-sanders

"Corrie Sanders was the most difficult opponent I ever fought," the 41-year-old World Boxing Council (WBC) champion told Germany's Sport Bild Plus. [...] "Corrie was fast, could give and take a punch. His style was very dangerous and did not suit me. I was very pleased to be able to win this fight," Vitali Klitschko said.

https://www.sport24.co.za/othersport/vital-klitschko-praises-sanders-20120924

 

Bowe would need to relearn the alphabet if he ever fought Wlad.

But of course we know he wouldn't, because he chickened out of facing Lewis

 

Yes, he was a bit of an Earnie Shavers type character. Poor resume and a ton of bum fights with one great performance and another great moment.

Those two guys have fought enough of the cream of the division for us to rate them as an extremely high measuring stick. People, yourself included, are doing the same with Bowe; that because he beat Holyfield he'd beat almost everyone else. That's actually a lot more of an exaggeration than merely saying that one guy had a reputation for being dangerous in the first couple of rounds.

No, my oversight was in failing to recognise that short plodding LHWs and arm punching saloon brawlers still ruled the roost at HW.

I have since corrected that monumental defect in my thinking.

And a 29 year old is already shot to ****. Lots of nonsense on both sides of the argument, isn't there?

No, he did it himself. I think you fundamentally misunderstood my point.

You've already quoted this post. And the one above. Anything else you'd like to follow up on before I respond?

 

BCS8 just answered this very satisfactorily.

They both struggled against various opponents at one point in their careers. That's not what both sides consider their best at, however, so what's the point in picking holes?

And yeah, Bowe STRUGGLED against Donald.

What club fighter? You mean Sam Peter? A former world champ?

By your standards a 118-109 scorecard can't be considered struggling, can it?

Bowe couldn't stop Donald, or Golota, or Tony Tubbs (ouch). Wach at least has a reputation for resilience.

He was only knocked down a few times in his career because his career was so short and he avoided big punchers throughout most of it. Great work.

He'd ruin Bowe by jabbing his head off and catching him clean with straight right hands that Bowe would eat flush through his sloppy guard as he was plodding forward trying to walk him down. Any time Bowe closed range he'd find himself tied up on the inside by a bigger stronger man than any he was used to, then forced to go through the whole process again. At some point he'd either get discouraged and forced into a shell, or he'd resort to fouling out of frustration and fear. He ends up either TKOed or UDed in a one-sided mismatch.

This is how the fight would go down and you know it, boxing fan.