Bowe HAD a jab, but after the fights vs Holyfield he was damaged and I think Golota showed just how much Bowe had deteriorated by allowing fighters to get on the inside too often.

I see a fighters' defense like a pistachio or an oyster. Some are very easy to open up, all you need is to get leverage between their shells (or in this case guard). Some fighters have visible cracks in their defense and all you need is a jab, to relate to the pistachios it's just like simply using your fingernails to pop open. In other cases the fighter has a very solid defense and anytime you try to open them up, they shut even tighter and in those cases you need something not so simple to open them up. But once a fighter gets opened up, they can be opened up so badly that they can no longer offer up any defensive resistance in the future and I think Holyfield did just that to Riddick Bowe. Riddick Bowe was a big oyster and Evander Holyfield knifed his defense and tore him up on the inside.

In 1996 Golota was eating Bowe up in the ring and had "The Foul Pole" not been such a fucking idiot he would have won, maybe even stopped Bowe. I think in 1996 Tommy Morrison offers more than Golota did although a Morrison-Golota match would have been nice as well.


Yes Master, Tommy was certainly juicing, I would imagine a lot of boxers have done that but again it doesn't improve your chin or your stamina. The chin is God given and the stamina is earned through roadwork.