There is no explanation for this statistic other than Bowe had a bad chin and Futch knew it

I meant the equivalent of a foreman or a shavers which knocked Norton out.

Norton's chin looked just fineagainst Holmes
But a real puncher exposed it.
Bowe never fought a real big puncher.
Therefore his chin wasn't really tested and there is no evidence his was any better than nortons because the 205lb version of Holyfield didnt Hit Harder than 1978 holmes

 

Bert was a big puncher but he was wildly inconsistent. He looked absolutely dreadful vs foreman and Bowe. Probably a stylistic thing. Cooper is a relatively safe fight for a tall fighter with pop because of coopers not very fast feet and leaky defense.


But really even with cooper Bowes resumee is just very devoid of Punchers and of good fighters period.
If you have to name guys like Seldon... I mean come on.
Look at the guys razor ruddock, Lennox Lewis, mike Tyson and evander Holyfield took on in the same time frame.

Riddick Bowe was considered the best active HW in the world by many in 1996 before he fought golota, there was certainly no indication of him being shot vs Gonzalez the year before, where alot of people said "the real Bowe is finally back"

And I'm not comfortable claiming that one big left hook from a 30lb smaller evander Holyfield inthe Rubber match ruined bowe, because besides that big punch evander didn't do much else in the fight other than look like he is about to keel over from a heart attack.


To be honest I think Bowe just had one good night where he was fortunate that a much smaller man whose big advantage was faster feet and hands decided to try to knock him out and played right into his hands. And when evander fought that stupidly even gatekeepers like Alex Stewart and Bert cooper gave him all he could handle.
If Holyfield Had given Bowe the respect he gave foreman and used his speed things would be seen differently.
And if Holyfield Had tried to knock foreman out and push him back the way he did with Bowe, foreman would have won the title in 1991

There just isn't much else in his entire career that warrants the hype.

 

And he did. With one punch. While he looked like he was having a heart attack.
it took about a million to stop a gassed out Tyson who was loading up and getting countered on every right hand
Bowe did not have a chin nearly as good as Tyson or Holyfield who were much smaller guys

 

Every. Single. One. Of the top 10 HW Punchers of Bowes era fought atleast 2 others from the top 10.

Moorer fought foreman Tua and Stewart

Stewart fought foreman Moorer tyson

Tyson fought Bruno ruddock Lewis and smith


Bruno fought Lewis tyson and Smith

Lewis fought tua Tyson Morrison ruddock etc....


Smith fought Tyson bruno and Moorer

Ruddock fought Morrison Tyson Lewis

Morrison fought ruddock Mercer and Lewis


Foreman fought Morrison and Moorer






Bowe fought......cooper.
Oh yeah and seldon I forgot

 

Pre 1960? What does that have to do with anything?
Bowes resumee of punchers is **** poor compared to every single name HW in his own era.
Every one. Even Morrison and Moorer fought more dangerous hitters.
Atleast former LHW Moorer picked a popular big guy with an ATG Punch when he defended vs foreman
Bowe threw his belt in the trash and fought a Dokes that was so shot it's disgusting.
I mean wtf. The guy is huge, hits hard and often, gets described as the best schooled big man in the world and fights THAT opposition??? Only explanation is there was something to hide.

Bowe never faced anybody who could really test his chin to tell us how he does H2H against a great puncher. Taking alot of shots vs Holyfield ist great but Holyfield was much smaller than him. How much credit do you really want to give him for taking the shots of someone that he has 30lbs on and who wasn't any more than average punching until he stopped bouncing around and gained another 10lbs of muscle at which point Holyfield didnt have much trouble hurting Bowe anymore


Norton took every punch in the book vs Holmes but it doesn't tell us anything about how he takes a shot from a KO puncher.