Very good or great? Volume 7: Riddick Bowe

So true.

 

Congrats on your modship. btw.

 

I can imagine.
Did one of you ban Wladimir23? Or was that someone else? I haven't seen him or his ******ed posts for quite a while now.

 

I selected the " very good " option on the poll. As some have already pointed out, he has an admirable record and some quality wins. But his prime was a tad too short and his resume could have used a few more names.

 

Not sure if this is a serious post, the first part at least, skill I'll give you, but to say he has lesser power/chin when he was fighting bigger stronger men is way off base, I'd say he trumps Liston in both aspects

 

Better to have glass balls than no balls, I always say.

 

Nowhere near great, I'd say. Very, very uneven fighter who, on his best day had to go nip and tuck with a fighter he outweighed by 30 pounds.

He looped his right hand terribly, had a dodgy chin, leaky defense, no discipline, poor management (debatable how that really factors into the argument, but I can't pass up a chance to bash Rock Newman) and didn't move well. I think a guy like Norton, for example, destroys him.

He did fight inside very well for a big man and had good power, though. Got to give him that. And he had courage.

 

Very good. Not sure if he actually reached his peak though talent to do more seemed there. No one brings this up but Bowe possibly did all he could've. Exciting fighter but truly a "brawler" and not a thinker lol. That said he really disappointed me against Tubbs.

Defiling my childhood memories with your avatar:-lol:

 

:rofl:rofl:rofl Classic at it again! Great stuff folks.

 

I only have two things I feel could add to this conversation.

Point #1: I find Bodhi new avatar sexually arousing and anyone who doesn't is a communist.

Point #2: I had the Riddick Bowe Boxing game as a young man. It was a terrible game. I'm not sure you could dodge except in straight lines back and forth as if Muhammad Ali had invented the system. Your punch options were fairly limited. There was a create your own boxer option so I created Comet Dawkins, a green screened powerpuncher Fromm planet Lovetron. Things didn't work out so well and Dawkins ended up being knocked out several times by dashboard dummies and cookie cutter bums. I saw an option that said new career, and prayed that it would allow me to continue as Dawkins in a job he was more suited for- fry cook, neurosurgeon, circus freak, etc. however that option only allowed you to create a new boxer, who would inevitably suck just as much as the previous one. So I took the video game outside, urinated on it, and set it on fire. So then my garage smelled like burned plastic and urine for like, ever which I blame on Riddick Bowe. So i'm going to vote very good, because you should never associate greatness with burned plastic and urine unless you're having great robot sex.

 

Very Good, could have been great, got caught up.If he fought Lewis early '93, chalk it up as a win for him.