Sonny Liston vs Riddick Bowe

The only way Golata was able to get Bowe off him was hitting low......and low......and lower......and that was a Bowe who hardly trained.........no low blows and Golata gets ko'ed or flat out quits, no ifs or buts......lol, the proof is in the pudding , Golata did quit .....his corner BEGGED him not to go to the body but Golata knew he could get out of the fight getting disqualified and he promptly obliged when it got too hot in the kitchen.

 

The second men with modern attributes he fought was Cleveland Williams. Thats about it. Two man. You may add Valdes, who was often nearer to 200lb. Liston was a behemoth in an era of 190 pounders. Thats why you can hardly rate what he would look like against fighters Bowe fought.

I don´t see it either. Its a lot of "ifs" in his resume, since you can´t hardly rate him as a powerhouse from it.

We saw Bowe fighting very tough fights and showing a solid whiskers. Nor is his punching abilities rated by 185lb Pattersons, Besmanoffs and Whitehursts.
I´ll go with the Bowe.

 

The difference was that Liston was a bigger puncher than Holyfield, so he could accomplish more with less. He wouldn't have to expend the amount of energy throwing lots and lots of punches like Holyfield. I don't know how many Holyfield punches equal one Liston punch as far as damage caused, but one Liston punch flush would definitely be more hurtful than one Holyfield punch flush

 

I think a young Riddick beats Liston in what would be a war. Bowe on his way up to the championship really looked like he would not be denied. Liston's hard to really predict as the only great fighter he fought was the greatest Ali and he got beat and quit. He beat a number of good fighters easily and when I watch him he looks very good but still very hard to rate him.