Riddick Bowe is not a great champion, he didn't face the best competition, he never fought a puncher, Lennox flattened him in the amateurs and would have done so again in the pros and Wlad would have stopped Bowe in 8 and Vitali (prime for prime) would have stopped Bowe in 4. The guy wasn't hard to hit and for such a big guy didn't have an amazing amount of power. Post Prison Mike Tyson would have beaten Bowe, Michael Moorer may have beaten Bowe, George Foreman would have beaten Bowe. Riddick Bowe is one of the most overrated fighters of all time.

Larry Holmes got knocked down by lesser fighters than either of the brothers and although I keep reading the word PRIME bandied about here and there people still bring up the Klitschko brothers' losses....of which maybe 1 occurred during a Prime and that was Vitali's loss to Lewis due to a cut with Vitali up on all cards.