Why are some fighters found out but Riddick Bowe just became shot when beaten??

**** just got real

 

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polish bouncer took that chump to school.
He was just another black HW US hype job.

 

bowe lost alot, it was visible, lacy lost alot, but as much as bowe. Bute didn't take the damage lacy and bowe took.

 

Bowe's performance was credited to his dedication to the sport or lack there of...a bit of a different situation with Lacy and Bute.

 

Probably something to do with the sluggishness and balooning weight in the first Golota fight, and that he was wobbling from every punch Golota landed in the second and slurring his speech afterwards. The Bowe from the second Golota fight had all the symptoms of a shot fighter, and his actions in the aftermath are further evidence that the guy was damaged goods.

It didn't just happen with Golota either. There signs of decline against Hide and third time round against Holyfield. The Gonzalez win flattered Bowe, as the Cuban was thought to be a dangerous opponent based purely on his amateur exploits.

If you watch the first two Holyfield fights, or even the Coetzer and Seldon wins, and then compare to the spaghetti legged Bowe of Golota II, it is clearly a weaker and inferior version.

Lacy never had a win remotely close to beating a prime Holyfield, and there wasn't any evidence of decline prior to the beating Calzaghe gave him. Calzaghe probably ruined him to a certain extent, but there was a lot less to ruin than the hype machine was claiming. His status as beavy favourite going into the Calzaghe fight owed something as well to Calzaghe being under-rated at the time.

 

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Does he have children?

 

Some good posts so far. I think to some degree Holyfield fans want to make Bowe out to be an ATG fighter so their man didn't lose twice to a guy who is otherwise known for ducking Lewis and getting the **** beaten out of him by Golota

 

well, it was the way he was beating guys before that: he was making top twenty guys look like chumps, running slick combinations on them with power, and easily outboxing them, not just with strength.

Lacey was landing big shots and had the "mystique" of the huge puncher, but we hadn't seen him outboxing top twenty guys with ease, just maybe getting a knock out. Guys who only rely on power are more likely to get "exposed" because when they can't knock a guy out, they don't have a plan B. To some degree this is what people claim about Trinidad: if he can't hurt you, he doesn't know what to do.

Bowe could still win a decision even if he couldn't hurt a guy ... until he was shot. and his level of competition was just better than Lacey's, I don't care.

 

Andrew was plain and simply the better fighter.

 

I lost all respect for Riddick Bowe & Rock Newman when they blatently renaged on fighting Lennox Lewis. They did that because they knew Lennox had Bowe's number & Riddick would have his ass handed to him & been exposefd a lot earlier.
I asked Newman to his face why they renaged on Lewis & his only answer was " Why risk it all against Lewis when people will buy Bowe-Dokes & Bowe-Ferguson with NO RISK!! ??