Put Riddick Bowe in the 70's era

Bowe looses to Ali, maybe Foreman but who knows, Bowe was hard to knock out but he's clearly been stunned several times and didn't fight many big hitters but Bowe is certainly better than Lyle and bigger than Foreman with infighting abilities arguably ahead of anybody in the 70s. I'd lean Foreman.

I favor Bowe over everyone else, but realistically speaking he wouldn't be in kickin with the top guys for long, he lacked dedication

 

I don't completely go along with the avoided punchers but gee there's just not much there Goo. Not much at all. As a matter of fact Bowe vs punchers is a pretty big unknown. Holyfield is no feather fist and he shipped a bit from him pretty well but there may or may not have been a ceiling there too.

 

Agree. Of course the flip side of that argument is, how many big punchers did foreman, Frazier and shavers face in the seventies and how well did they do against them?

 

Riddick Bowe though talented, had mental issues to succeed as an all time great. The purses were not like they are today, he would be meeting hungry opposition who fought hard and often. Body, Mind and Spirit.

 

True. I'd look at having Bowe at 0, Foreman 2 and Frazier i'd give Bonavena and Quarry i think. I'd also acknowledge Frazier at look took on Foreman not once but twice.

 

Bowe probably beats them all, but I wouldn't rule out a loss, or maybe even two.

 

Quarry-Bowe would be amazing. Jerry really was a giant-slayer, or perhaps a puncher-slayer. I can never get enough of his deconstruction of Mac Foster, Ron Lyle, and Earnie Shavers.

Sure, Big Daddy Bowe is likely more skilled than any of them, but Quarry always failed to play the underdog role.

 

Everyone thought that Earnie Shavers would dismantle Jerry Quarry like George Chuvalo did in 1969, but Jerry got to Shavers first on Dec 14 1973, KO 1.

 

I believe he wasn't exactly a favorite going into the Mac Foster/Lyle fight. Such a shame his management pretty much ruined his potentially championship winning career.