Bowe Tubbs: Score it yourself

I watched it again.

I scored it 6-4 Bowe. Pretty much how I've always had it.

Tubbs was in the fight because Riddick was still a work in progress; like a baby lion on his first kill Tubbs the gazelle befuddled him occasionally and made this a tougher fight than expected.

Fast forward one year Bowe probably makes shorter work of Tony.

 

:goodalthough I had tubbs winning i prety much would say the same. Bowe underacheived here and this is why it was close. with so many quiet rounds I pick the guy who scores more often where as so many folks go with the guy who is forcing it even if he lands less often. with two guys doing what tony did there would not be a fight so i understand the logic.

 

:good absolutly!

 

6-4 Bowe.

Don't be too hard on Lefty guys, he think prime Bowe beats prime Lewis.

 

Why?

I strongly doubt it. Tubbs presented a difficult style for Bowe and he was only one year away from his peak, and yet another year after that he was past his best. Due to easy matching he never had to deal with Tubbs kind of movement again, until the Holyfield rematch (close loss), Hide (who had him out on his feet but was overwhelmed physically) and Golota, who smashed Riddick twice.


So many of Bowe's possible career events end up different in people's imaginary world.

 

But Chris has a point. Calling this pre-prime and Golota past-prime makes Bowe's prime so short that it becomes an almost Douglas-esque peak.

 

Bowe was utterly shot-to-**** against Golota, it's clear as day.

 

It may have contributed, but Tubbs would've always had a style to trouble Bowe. It's one of those fights where the prospect should get the W and not look back. And that he did.

Which it was, really. The Holyfield win was great, but when Evander fought smart in the rematch, he won despite massive physical disadvantages. I think he would've won the third as well, if not for hepatitus or whatever it was that stopped him from being able to throw a single punch when Bowe was a hair away from being stopped.

The Hide and Donald (a career underachiever) wins are good but not spectacular. He beat Golota on paper but in reality, the Pole beat him so thoroughly that his career was over.

 

Shot to **** a mere 3 years after his peak fight with Holyfield. Or the fact that Golota brought more to the table than his soft touches - Holyfield aside - contributed as well?

 

Nah, I think it's pretty short. Can happen if you don't take care of yourself, sure, but I think he was still prime in the rubber match with Holy. The tools were still there.

But anyhow, if we are to disregard the perfomances against Tubbs and Golota as pre- respective post-prime there really only are the fights against Holy that are meaningful. And in the last one Evander was in a pretty bad way himself, so we're more or less down to one really good win. That's pretty Douglas-esque in my book.