Poll - Who would win? Usyk or 1992 Prime Riddick Bowe?

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Poll - Who wins Uysk or 1992 prime Riddick Bowe

Poll closed Aug 7, 2024.
  1. USYK POINTS

    48.5%
  2. USYK KO

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  3. BOWE POINTS

    12.1%
  4. BOWE KO

    39.4%
  1. Ice8Cold

    Ice8Cold Hype Jobs will be hype jobs until proven so. Full Member

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    This would have been incredible.

    Two very different fighters yet both so bloody skilled.

    Riddick Bowe's skill is VERY underrated IMO. Lennox Lewis I think had the slight edge in power but Riddick Bowe defo had the edge in skill.

    My money on Usyk V Bowe would be Riddick Bowe via 9th round body shot KO. We know Usyk doesn't like a good body shot - Bowe would have bombarded him on the inside.

    Who do you think wins this? Poll below.
     
  2. piprules

    piprules Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Bowe in the Holyfield fights was a beast, and I think Holyfield is better than Usyk. So I pick bowe.
     
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  3. BCS8

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    Bowe is hell of overrated and Usyk is better than Holyfield, so I pick Usyk.
     
  4. Keleneki

    Keleneki Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I'm going with Bowe by KO with Eddie Futch in his corner.

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  5. Bofo24

    Bofo24 hobbyist Full Member

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    Usyk, he would outbox/outpoint Bowe just like Golota did but with obvious no mental breakdown.
     
  6. Boxed Ears

    Boxed Ears this my daddy's account (RIP daddy) Full Member

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    Back in Bowe's old neighborhood they used to say he was a sucker for a southpaw. Not boxers, but he got a lot of hand jobs from the left side. It wasn't a fetish, I guess, but something to do with athlete superstitions. He thought it was lucky. But would he be lucky with Usyk? I don't know. Maybe he wouldn't need to be. Maybe Usyk would have to give him a hand job before the night was through.
     
  7. Babality

    Babality KTFO!!!!!!! Full Member

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    Golota's power was key in what he did to Bowe. Usyk doesn't have that, he hits even less hard than Evander.
     
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  8. AdamT

    AdamT Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    Usyk is sooooo overhyped on this forum
    He is not beating Riddick Bowe lol
     
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  9. mrbigshot

    mrbigshot Active Member Full Member

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    Nobody in the boxing world dares to claim such a thing .

    Holyfield , the prime one , was way faster than the also fast usyk , had an significantly better defence as well ring iq and also punched harder than usyk .

    With all respect to usyk - prime holyfield was leagues apart from him

    That said prime bowe knocks usyk out
     
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  10. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Holyfield wasn't just the poster boy for steroids he was a walking PED factory. He was on the hard stuff and lots of it but for some strange reason people want to completely ignore the fact he was massively artificially enhanced and give him a free pass for it

    For jacking himself with a whole concoction of PEDs which made him stronger, tougher, more powerful, bigger, and increased his stamina and endurance but if Usyk got caught drinking a mild cup of coffee before one of his fights these same people would crucify him on a molten cross for it. That's why you can and never should take them seriously. How could you? How can anyone? lol

    Instead of running the race on foot like you're supposed to Evan Fields drove to the finish line in a Formula 1 car ie. he cheated. Cheated like crazy.
     
  11. lone star

    lone star Active Member Full Member

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    How about waiting until Usyk has a couple more big fights in heavyweight to make a comparison. If he gets past Fury that is. Too much of his career was at cruiserweight to really fairly rate him at heavyweight yet.
     
  12. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Usyk takes Bowe to slick school. Too fast, fleet of hand and foot, and elusive. He would make Big Daddy look like a Frankenstein's monster with his footwork and movement.


    And I see no slickness on Bowe's CV

    I'm looking but I can't see any

    I see plenty of plodders but I don't see no slickness

    Is there any southpaw slickness on there?

    You-hoo? Are you there, Mr Slickness??

    But sadly Mr. Slickness was nowhere to be found

    Usyk turns 37 next week, an age when most fighters are past their best or completely washed up, especially clean ones who don't artificially enhance themselves or extend their careers with PEDs like many of the so called ''greats'' and the heroes of the Uysk haters.

    Usyk has been past his prime for years. Very noticeably past his prime. He's slower. His reaction times and reflexes not near as sharp as they were. Better accuracy. And he was less rigid and more fluid but Bowe was supposedly completely washed up at 29 y/o for goodness sake. The fact he got battered and abused by Golota with ease who was one of the few skilled big men and big punching big men he fought and the only EE fighter from the Soviet school he ever fought, a school he lost to numerous times in the amateurs, including by stoppage IIRC, literally had nothing to do with anything whatsoever Golota brought to the dance at all :facepalm:

    Golota gave Low Blow Bowe a much needed and long overdue taste of his own medicine. Golota was a dirty fighter but so was Bowe. Let's not forget that and give him the obligatory free pass for it like we do Evan and co for jacking themselves silly with PEDs because of the passport they own. Bowe would go low on Usyk too

    But you stick a 29 y/o razor-sharp reflexes and reaction times Usyk in there with him and he'd be swinging and missing like a big baffoon, looking confused and unsure of himself and getting taken to slick school like the rest of these big behemoths.
     
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  13. BCS8

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    I think you'll find a lot of people that reckon Usyk is the #1 cruiser. Just saying.
     
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  14. BCS8

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    :ole::ole::ole::ole:
     
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  15. Serge

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    :lol: I forget to mention that in addition to Evan being given the obligatory free pass for being a walking PED factory, Bowe being given one for being very dirty and deemed shot at 29 when these same people consider Usyk prime at 37 and still would if he was 39, Evan didn't just artificially supe up all the weapons he brought into a ring with him he brought an extra one in there too. - his famous bald dome. Usyk has never done any of these things but they still hate. Go figure
     
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