Prime Riddick Bowe vs Vitali Klitchko?

bowe in a dog fight

 

Klitchko via Golota style beatdown (without giving away the victory with low blows)

 

could go either way...50:50

 

everyone looks at the Golota fight as the proof that Bowe can be fairly easily outboxed by a big decent HW. In watching that fight you can see how much his skills had diminished from not long ago after the holyfield wars.

 

Exactly, Vitali can't fight on the inside. Bowe will rough him up and stop him in the late rounds.

 

Vitali beats Bowe 8 out of 10.

 

I love how Bowe gets a pass on everything from the same guys who hate Vitali.

But Bowe must be a legendary HW, right? After all, he beat mini-Evander two out of three, and he also... ah.... um.... actually, who else did he ever beat?

He sure did get the **** kicked out of him by Golota though. Twice, actually.

Oh but that's right, eight months after stopping prime Holy he was suddenly completely shot IN HIS VERY NEXT FIGHT. When he was a 29 year old with a record of 38-1. So the Golota ass-rammings don't count against him, at all.

:hat

 

That is true. But if you look at Lewis-Bowe back in finals, you'll see a smart, strong, skilled big man handling Bowe pretty well... Riddick was an excellent heavy, but I don't see the proof in his career he could handle a highly skilled and very effective, elite superheavy.

The most overlooked strength in Vitali's game might be his effectiveness. He doesn't get hit much (only Lewis could land at a fairly high %, ever) and he's landing his own, busy punches at a high rate. I can see Bowe going 12, but I don't think he's capable to do anything with Vitali's stats. He'd be facing 1000 strong punches in 12 rounds landing at 30%, and landing a single punch on Vitali is damn hard, so how the hell do you outbox him?

 

Vitali's reflexes would make the difference. Vitali is harder to hit than anyone at HWI can remember. Even Ali could be hit by little Doug Jones or Henry Cooper, fighters who wouldn't ladn anything on Vitali. Bowe's advantage in infighting wouldn't mean much, since Vitali wouldn't let him get there.

 

Well, he was not hard to hit for Sanders and past prime, out of shape Lennox Lewis. Of course if you fight the Arreolas, Williams, you ar not gonna get hit much.

Bowe by late round stoppage.Bowe has the better jab, better inside fighter and more heart.Bowe would fight like lennox except that he has a better chin and that the prime version of Bowe is better than the out of prime version of lewis.

 

You do not know ****.

That "mini Holy" would beat Vitali by decision. He is an ATG heavyweight.

The Bowe that fought Golota was out of prime much like the Lewis version that fought Vitali.