Moses Itauma names his hardest hitting heavyweight....EVER, and more!

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  1. White Bomber

    White Bomber Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Hardest puncher - Wlad and Wilder
    Fastest - Tyson
    Heart - Frazier
    Chin - Foreman
    Stamina - young Ali
    Ring IQ - Usyk
     
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  2. JohnThomas1

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    How many levels was Bowe above a faded Tony Tubbs? Bowe isn't remotely "a good few levels above Dokes" unless we are talking the shot version.
     
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  3. Ice8Cold

    Ice8Cold The Hype Job Spotter. Full Member

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    FYI - Riddick Bowe beat Tony Tubbs clearly.
     
  4. JohnThomas1

    JohnThomas1 VIP Member

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    In what world? KO mag and Boxing Illustrated both scored it for Tubbs. I've seen many people in here score it for Tubbs and many score it a draw. Some disagree and score it widish for Bowe, but a couple score it by a good margin for Tubbs.

    The strong consensus believes it to be a close fight.

    Hopefully the below link of our resident factiod man @SolomonDeedes still works. I'm at work and can't access it. It's reported 80% of ringside press scored it for Tubbs.

    To be fair Bowe was a bit green, but Tubbs was well past his best too.

    https://ibb.co/xqsh8yLH
     
  5. Dynamicpuncher

    Dynamicpuncher Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Just to add to this conversation I scored the fight 2 years ago and I only had Bowe winning by a single point it was far from convincing from Bowe.

    Tubbs was slick made Bowe look pedestrian at times making him miss alot of punches.

    Bowe just did enough for me based on his aggression.

    But it's a very debatable decision where I think that a draw probably would've been a fair result.


    Riddick Bowe vs Tony Tubbs

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    10 Even

    95-94 Bowe
     
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  6. slash

    slash Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    So what. Bowe was still young and learning.
     
  7. Andre2000

    Andre2000 Active Member Full Member

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    That he has a fair handle on some boxing history and the fighters therein at a relatively young age is impressive enough.

    I might not agree with his choices but he’s just expressing his own opinion just as many boxing afficiandos often to do on this forum - opinions that rarely see consensus across the board.

    Fair chance that he might change some of his answers as time goes by with even greater knowledge at hand. Then again, he might not.
     
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  8. Cornucopia

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    I might agree on all of these.
    Although Ali supposedly had that miniscule fraction of a second jab, & supposedly 25% faster than SRR...

    If Shavers is #1 in punch power-& I want him to be lol-it is *extraordinary* that anyone @210 lbs. could exceed all the Massive, Tall Long & sometimes trained via modern methods to a Fare-the-well.

    McCall? Yes.
    Rare enough to never be knocked down.
    Then he fought forever against modern sized guys.
    Who even rocked him, Seldon?
    Not even Lewis absolutely teeing off on him, when having a breakdown.
     
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