Bowe, who had fought the likes of Evander Holyfield, Michael Dokes and Buster Mathis Jr, said Hide was the hardest puncher he'd faced. He said: "He hit me and I thought, “ Oh s***. I can’t allow this guy to hit me again because I don’t know what I’ll see next."
Very underrated these days I'd say. Was known mainly for his monstrous power but I always thought highly of him for literally and figuratively punching above his weight. He seemed pretty fearless, or at least didn't shy away from giving it a go. Trouble seemed to follow him around though lol ...
Fast hands for a heavy. Eubank Sr sparred with him at the Matchroom gym in Romford in Oct.89 and couldn’t believe a heavyweight had hands that fast.
Bowe following the classic boxers tradition of saying a fighter he beat was the hardest puncher he ever faced. Golota would've been the right answer. Hide was just another small heavyweight that Bowe could dominate physically.
Very fast, athletic and with big power. He was massively undersized and had low hands and with a chin that made Amir Khan look like Oliver McCall. When he turned over the cruiserweight division was 190lbs and relatively new in creation, years later when it was increased to 200lbs he boiled down to make the weight but by that point he was aging and struggling with back issues so he retired. I think his last loss was a really bad cut if I remember right.
The Spanish called him "Manos di piedra." Which means "The crocodile who walks like a man but talks like a spirit and laughs like a mythical dancing bear of the night of a thousand million stars." Little did the native Spaniards know when that saying was invented that there are actually a lot more stars. But back then those peoples were an ignorant peoples as compared to advanced civilizations like us now. Because of that Hadrian wall telescope collision experiment. Where they set up one so big an entire wall of stars could be viewed and counted at one time. Took forever for the scientists to count all of them. It was like Compubox for astrology scientists. At least as far as accuracy. But there was definitely a reason they nicknamed Hide like that. The guy shined bright like a diamond in the sky. And reflected twice as much.
He did take the first two rounds from Bowe on the three judges although I think his high watermark was demolishing Tucker. First opponent to knock him out cold.