Bowe seems the be the flavour of the month, and matching him with much smaller blokes is how he did things so it's Pretty simple, both at the given years, who wins over 12?
people still don't understand that the dempsey of the willard fight has had unmatched aggression throughout boxing history, that's why his manager after the fight coined the term " hungry fighter ". it was just a one shot special performance, the dempsey that night could have beaten any other fighter in history. dude was also malnourished and it was burning hot that day, a showing of pure will. that dempsey would have knocked any heavyweight of history out and there was nothing they could do about that. even people in the boxing industry are still not aware of what they were watching in that fight, but mike tyson, cus, ray arcel and bert sugar are one of the only ones who had the awareness of what kind of fighter jack was and what he did against willard.
Train spike, even on film, didn't knock him down once after it left his glove if I remember correctly... It was a slaughtering, though. In a category pretty much with Louis/Schmeling II and that's about it as far as HW title history goes.
