Bowe got exposed by Golota? Last time I checked Bowe wasn't in his physical prime by then. Exposed if getting knocked out by Purrity, Brewster, and Sanders who I could never imagine knocking out or even beating Bowe. Bowe isn't a al time great, but neither is Wlad. The era he fought in was watered down. Not his fault but it is what it is. Doing his 10 years of feasting off nobody title run Wlad showed how flawed he was. For the most part punching and holding against guys smaller than he was. Any bigger guy who moved forward, could take a punch, and actually punch back bothered him. Also boxing is about styles, Bowe was a big guy who could move forward and punch. Wlad would freeze up like he always did against opponents like this and get knocked out.
The only thing Golota exposed was Bowe's relentlessness, heart , courage and unbreakable win to win. And Golota exposed himself as a mental weakling who couldn't handle the ghost of Bowe fighting back so quit by launching the worst bollok the sport has ever seen. Attacking his nuts over and over = i can't beat this guy , he's too much , i need to get outta here. Who else had that losers mentality? The guy who was wearing a diaper against Iggy and too terrified to throw a punch at Tyson Fury . That guy. And arguably even more fragile than Golota. A prime Bowe wipes the floor with Golota. That goes without saying , since the washed up trainer-less version pressured him until he mentality shattered TWICE. Bowe vs WK isn't even a competition.
Bowe has heart. That I'll give him, and, indeed, already did. 1) Karma. LOL. 2) Bowe was also dirty in that fight. Bowe was prime, or close to it. The first time round he was so sure of himself that apparently he "didn't train properly". The second time round his excuse was "I trained too hard". GTFOH with that. The real excuse is: Golota was better. Agreed. Wlad busts him up and puts a career ending beating on him.
Actually I can imagine any of those three giving Bowe hell and beating him. A decade at the top, fighting the best available, and "nobody" could expose him? Uh, right. Wlad fought everybody there was. From guys bigger than Bowe like Wach. To smaller swarmers like Povetkin. Pulev is a big aggressive dude with power and a jab. We know how that went. Jennings is a guy with movement and skills. He got beaten too. There's nothing about Bowe that suggests to me that he would be a particular threat to Klitschko, but plenty to suggest that Klitschko would be a problem for Bowe. Nope. Bowe is not technically great nor precise. He'd get broken on the outside and tied up on the inside. His best hope would be that Wlad punched himself out and then he could pour it on late. But that scenario hasn't happened since 2004.
Bowe because he could use his jab against Wlad with the longer reach and similar height and bow had more tools offensively that Wlad and Wlad wouldn’t be able to lean on top of bowe because there was only a 1 inch difference in height and look, bowe would box from the outside and set up the big right hand behind the jab and he was good on the inside, in other words Wlad wouldn’t be able to keep up
Bowe by 11th round TKO. Wlad would give Bowe all KINDS of trouble and be leading an average of four points on all scorecards at the time of the stoppage. Problems for Wlad include both Bowe's chin and bullying...but nothing like the overhand right. Bowe's overhand right could be near-useless at times on a fighter even a couple of inches shorter than him. On opponents his height or taller, it was a death sentence. It's a battle of jabs early on, Wlad's annoying one beating Bowe's pole ax to the punch throughout the first half of the fight. Bowe is also less accurate and sloppier overall than Wlad, who continuously catches RB with the straight right. Though Bowe doesn't seem particularly hurt, he does back up a couple of times in the 3rd and 5th rounds. Wlad gets encouraged by Bowe's having to chase him (Wlad always did have surprisingly good foot movement for a big man), and stays out of range of Bowe's heaviest blows. But he mistakenly opts to take a little break in the 7th (after winning all the rounds before) and nearly gets floored by a monstrous right hand. Shaken, he mostly holds until the bell, but it's obvious he's going to be running for awhile. Unfortunately things get downhill with each round. Bowe begins to actually land the jab more, and Wlad learns how brutal his uppercut can be on the inside, getting seriously staggered in the 9th round...but dancing away and shaking it off while firing seemingly semi-effective combinations. Wlad's legs are affected and his punches start to lose their snap. He almost goes down in the 10th from a huge overhand right, is looking unsteady as the bell rings for the 11th, and Bowe pretty much treats him the way he ultimately finished Holy III, not landing completely flush with the right but more than enough to roll Wlad's eyes up in his head...the ropes keep him up, but the ref stops it when it's obvious his eyes aren't coming to.
Over the years I've seen this fight as 50/50 but now I'm pretty convinced Wladimir wins 7 or 8/10 times. He might actually be one of the few fighters that could KO Bowe