Not GREATER, but who's the BETTER fighter: Riddick Bowe or Evander Holyfield?

This question has always kind of bugged me. Holyfield, imo, is clearly a greater fighter than Bowe (and should be ranked higher on an all time list, imo). But I've recently been organising my VHS fights (yes, only JUST realized I can convert them to DVDs ) and I just watched all three fights consecutively. Now one reason as to why the knockout in the third fight didn't mean AS much, was cause many considered that Holyfield was old and shot at the time. But Holyfield SINCE went on to beat Tyson, reign as king of the heavyweights for a few years, before losing to Lennox, and is STILL fighting today (at 45). So after coming off a knock out win over Ray Mercer, I wouldn't say that Holyfield was that shot at THAT time. (although maybe I'm forgetting something that was happening at the particular time?).

Nonetheless, Bowe CLEARLY won the first fight, and knocked Holy out in the third fight. Now Holy also CLEARLY won the second fight, but it was closer than the first (and an argument can be made that the fan man disrupted the momentum of the fight, as small an argument as this is). With 2-1, does that not PROVE Bowe to be the better fighter (although Holy is the greater fighter)?

And excuse me if the answer seems obvious.

 

First thing I thought I would get replied with once I posted this: Styles makes fights

 

Yeah, at their absolute best.