Better All-Around Fighter: Primo Carnera or Riddick Bowe?

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Who was the better all-around fighter, Primo Carnera or Riddick Bowe?

  1. Primo Carnera

  2. Riddick Bowe

  3. They were equally good all-around fighters

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  1. janitor

    janitor VIP Member

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    This is a fair summary.
     
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    Tonto62 Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    It's a pretty damning one imo.
     
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    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Sigh, it's too true. Like I said, it makes me mad every time I think about it. Bowe should have been subservient to Great Master Futch in all ways...not many trainers were as good, let alone better.
     
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    Saint Primo be praised!
     
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  5. janitor

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    Not in my eyes.

    Carnera was big, and technically good.

    Give him the power of Wlad, or the chin of Bowe, and he would have been very hard to beat.
     
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    RulesMakeItInteresting Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    That said, I imagine Bowe's overhand right would have knocked Carnera off his meatball (I'm Italian, so I'm allowed to say that lol).
     
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    You might well be right, but the question was who was the better all round technician.

    That goes to Carnera.
     
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    Bump to teach some history of ESB.
     
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    Bump to throw your ‘homie’ under the bus for reddit karma scraps
     
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    What an absutely disgusting, slimy, ******ed abomination of a thread.

    LET IT DIE.
     
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    Please Stop.
     
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    In an odd happenstance I actually saw your Reddit account by pure chance a few weeks ago, on a sub that had nothing to to with boxing, but didn’t say anything because I prefer to keep my online profiles entirely isolated from each other.
     
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    Wise :D
     
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    This is a direct quote


    Me-I know him, you can usually catch him on ESB. Good guy who produces some amazing content with that film degree of his. He's got some really odd boxing opinions though and gets banned like clockwork.

    Some guy- lmao what kind of opinions

    Me-The most infamous being his belief that Primo Carnera would school Riddick Bowe. This thread is now a part of ESB history. https://www.boxingforum24.com/threa...fighter-primo-carnera-or-riddick-bowe.585492/


    If you feel like I threw you under the bus here, my bad. Just trying tell the truth. Pointing at the strange hill you chose to die on.
     
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