Would Riddick Bowe Have Being Advised To Avoid Wilder..?

That's what I meant too. I think the real reason for dodging Lewis was that his team didn't think he'd win. With Wilder, his team's thoughts would likely be "he can definitely beat this guy and most likely would, but it could go REAL bad and he could get REAL hurt if it does".

 

I don’t know if he would have been advised as thus but I know he would have boxed Wilders head off and beat him up.
Of course Wilder would always have the proverbial punchers chance.

 

I distinctly remember the Chicken Bowe comment from Lennox Lewis when questioned if Bowe would fight him after the Holyfield bout.

 

Man who knows, Bowe did fight the least of other HWs....no Tyson, no Mercer, no Morrison, no Moorer or Foreman....not even Franz Botha...

But man, this would have been one for the ages of they ever did link up

 

With that defense, I'd advise him to avoid Wilder like the plague.

 

Bowe at his best batters Wilder easily.

 

It's a weird Bowe/Lewis situation in the 90s. I will not go into the calculations, because I simply do not know the truth. I will write what I know. Everyone's talking about how Lewis beat every man he stepped in the ring with (including the rematch with Oliver McCall, whatever that fight was), but no one is talking about how Bowe beat every man he stepped in the ring with (NC Buster Mathis Jr is a statistical anomaly). Everyone knows that Lewis knocked out Bowe in the Olympic final in 1988. Peak time distance is very long. Peak Bowe was in 1992, and peak Lewis was in 2000, when Bowe had already been retired for almost half a decade. In the 1990s, Bowe fought only Evander Holyfield from ATG, Lewis fought with many ATG (Mike Tyson, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Riddick Bowe)
I really don't know who avoided whom as an opponent in the 1990s, but that's why I know who didn't; Evander Holyfield.
In the 1990s, Evander Holyfield fought: James Douglas, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Riddick Bowe, Michael Moorer, Ray Mercer, Mike Tyson, and Lennox Lewis. What a list! I simply think that without Holyfield the "Silver Heavyweight Era" would; decade (1990s) failed.
Now where would Wilder fit into the 1990s? I think Wilder has a punchers chance against all the boxers I have listed in this post (the Oliver McCall chin would be further tested then). Perhaps Wilder would be the tipping point that would turn the 1990s into the "Golden Heavyweight Era" (not the 1970s). I think the 1990s would have been the "golden heavyweight era" anyway; that everyone had fights like Evander Holyfield; i.e. that we watched the fights:
Bowe vs Lewis
Bowe vs Tyson
Bowe vs Foreman
Lewis vs Foreman
Tyson vs Foreman (this would have been interesting at the very end of the 1980s).....

P.S. Where would Wilder find himself in the 1990s. I really do not know. If he were to fight and win (like Bowe) with only one ATG; The 1990s would remember him. If (like Holyfield) he were to fight all ATG; The 1990s would have forgotten him.

P.S.S. Everything I wrote is IMO.

 

Maybe Bowe vs Hassim Rahman or Bowe vs McCall, those two flattened Lennox Lewis.

 

This is one of the many reasons why I'm a big fan of Holyfield. He'd have fought absolutely anyone. He won some, he lost some, he wasn't the best of the era, but he was damn good and didn't disappoint his fans by not taking the fights they wanted to see.

 

Imagine McCall or Mercer against Wilder. Really test those chins.

 

Fighting Prime Holyfield 3 times is great.For instance name 3 better opponents Lewis fought?

 

Some of these comments honestly have me shaking my head. Wilder beat absolutely no one of any real talent. Bowe would have destroyed him early.

 

"He's a tough guy? That's who I want to fight."