Riddick Bowe vs Vitali Klitscho

Yes... course they could.

Bowe wasn't the toughest mentally either, even though he had a big heart - Klitschko's mental strength can't be questioned.

 

Bowe

 

Lets be honest about Vitali. He couldnt beat an OUTTA SHAPE, over the hill, unmotivated Lewis. How in the hell would he beat a prime Bowe?

Bowe TKO 8. The Klit sisters are criminally overrated.

 

Bowe would never quit on his stool from a bum shoulder.

Larry Holmes fought Ken Norton ferociously with a extremely bad shoulder injury, yet the ***** Quitali quit vs light hitting Byrd in a fight he was WINNING.

So please dont sit up here and tell me that Quitali is mentally tough. Its easy to look mentally tough when your beating the Danny Williams's, and Sam Peter's of the world.

 

Bowe really only looked good when he clobbered small guys like Holy who was 205 pounds in 1992, and Herbert Hide who was beefed up to around 210 pounds in 1995....... Or Bowe looked good when hammering bigger guys with poor power and very little skills like Pierre Coetzer, Larry Donald and Jorge L. Gonzalez..... When the time came to fight a fresh fighter of size and strength in 1996 by the name of Golota, Riddick Bowe took an ass-whipping like he never felt from his daddy before......

I gotta assume that V.K. is above all of that and would likely administer a terrible clobbering of "Big Fatty" Bowe.....
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SR.BILLARDO:rasta

 

Man I can't believe most of you people picked Bowe to beat the highly overrated Vitali. I love you guys.

 

Actually, I think it can because he has quit.

 

Gonzalez had very good power,and he got a one sided beating.

 

How in hell has Vitali beaten remotely CLOSE to the level of Bowe?

 

His shoulder was hanging off :nut

He could have always ran for three rounds - and people will always draw comparison with Danny Williams knocking out Mark Potter with a busted shoulder.

But even a light hitting Chris Byrd was more of a threat to Vitali than Potter was for Williams.

To be honest, I cannot be 100% sure what I would have done in his position either - it could have been a career threatening injury, after all.

Also - read my pick, Bowe TKO 10.

 

Joe Frazier was shot and washed up at 29 too.
Riddick Bowe was as good an inside fighter as I have seen for a big man,Vitali is **** inside, he flails his arms about like a ****ing albatross once you have invaded his space ,check out him wind milling about against part time golfer Sanders.
Bowe also possessed a great uppercut inside ,he can match Vitali at long range and master him in close thats why he wins, imo.

 

Gonzalez had power and NO SKILLS to apply his power to a skilled opponent........... Bowe was indeed lazy as all hell but, he had skills..... But Bowe's lack of desire and poor training habits ruined him, along with the beatings he sustained against Golota in '96.......
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MR.BILL