Why did Bowe look OK against Holyfield in 1995, and then **** against Golota in 1996?

The main reason is that Bowe was so much bigger than Evander.

It was a completely unfair fight and Bowe has never beaten a decent HW his own size. He simply couldn't. He got owned by Golota and threw his belt in the bin to avoid Lennox. A coward and a sissy. And one of the two most overrated boxers on this board.

 

glass pipe

 

Cocain is a hell of a drug.

It deteriorates you fast.

 

Iv always felt that bowe was good, but was a fair bit over rated. he looks good when hes fighting guys that are giving up north of 30 lbs to him, but put a big puncher or maybe a slick fighter in front of him and he really doesnt know what to do with them.

Most i feel over rated him based on the holy fights. Bear in mind vander's style was custom built to make bowe look good. that being said i think he could hold his own against any pure boxer in the history of the sport,boxer puchers though, not so much.

 

LOL, new to boxing ?

Unbeaten Jorge Luis Gonzales was not big or could not punch ?

While Golata had early success against a unmotivated and undertrained Bowe he went low over and over again because Bowe did not go anywhere and kept on coming. Golata did not have the marbles or ring intelligence to sail thru some rough waters with a opponent who he could not ko or make quit aka cannot take the heat .Period. And Bowe never quit even in the second fight when he looked like a ghost.

Golata simply went low to survive and to get Bowe off him , nothing more or less. No low blows and Golata gets laid out in the later rounds or just quits because he wants to go home to mommy.

You can fault Bowe for many things but he has heart and a great chin, as a matter of fact he is one of the few heavyweights who has gotten up to win a fight not like some other highly touted guy who got iced twice from one shot by mediocre fighters.

Now I am sure some Golata fan is coming out of the woodwork to rant about Golatas great power, lol, who the F has that guy ever ko'ed above the journeyman level.............

 

Best way to put it, really. Sometimes we look for one specific answer to point at because it's simpler that way, but in any fight there's a perfect storm of circumstances all coming into play at once; that's part of what makes the sport so exciting at it's best. In looking for one answer, it's too easy to miss the big picture that tells the whole story.

Bowe's training, the damage he took (both from Holyfield and self-inflicted), and, just as importantly, Golota himself, played big parts in Bowe's fall- by the same token, Golota was never the same above the shoulders afterwards, either. Those 2 fights essentially took down of the more promising heavyweights of the era.