George Foreman vs. Riddick Bowe... who would've won?

[Beanflicker]

Riddick would have fucked up young Foreman I think. Young Foreman just didn't have the ring intelligence that the older one did. Prime Riddick was really a marvel HW.

[El Kabong]

Riddick would have fucked up young Foreman I think. Young Foreman just didn't have the ring intelligence that the older one did. Prime Riddick was really a marvel HW.

Holyfield aside....who did Riddick Bowe fight that was worth a damn?

[Beanflicker]

He fought some good names of the time. Why does it matter? If the outcome of every fight was based strictly on who fought the better opposition, why would we even bother watching boxing? We could just go to Boxrec and figure out who is going to win.

[El Kabong]

He fought some good names of the time. Why does it matter? If the outcome of every fight was based strictly on who fought the better opposition, why would we even bother watching boxing? We could just go to Boxrec and figure out who is going to win.

Well the point being that at the time of Bowe's title run there WERE better fighters out there and he chose NOT to fight them. Other than Evander Holyfield Bowe fought nobody all that great, old Michael Dokes, Pinklon Thomas, Bert Cooper, Tyrell Biggs, Tony Tubbs, Larry Donald, Jorge Luis Gonzalez, Herbie Hide, Andrew Golota, Pierre Coetzer, Everett Martin, Jesse Ferguson, Elijay Tillery, Bruce Seldon......I mean where's Morrison, Moorer, Bruno, Rudduck, Mercer, Tua, Lennox Lewis, Briggs, Tyson, Alex Stewart, Larry Holmes, George Foreman.

Bowe gave Holyfield hell but where's the rest of the guys worth a damn on his resume?

[Max Power]

He fought some good names of the time. Why does it matter? If the outcome of every fight was based strictly on who fought the better opposition, why would we even bother watching boxing? We could just go to Boxrec and figure out who is going to win.

Well the point being that at the time of Bowe's title run there WERE better fighters out there and he chose NOT to fight them. Other than Evander Holyfield Bowe fought nobody all that great, old Michael Dokes, Pinklon Thomas, Bert Cooper, Tyrell Biggs, Tony Tubbs, Larry Donald, Jorge Luis Gonzalez, Herbie Hide, Andrew Golota, Pierre Coetzer, Everett Martin, Jesse Ferguson, Elijay Tillery, Bruce Seldon......I mean where's Morrison, Moorer, Bruno, Rudduck, Mercer, Tua, Lennox Lewis, Briggs, Tyson, Alex Stewart, Larry Holmes, George Foreman.

Bowe gave Holyfield hell but where's the rest of the guys worth a damn on his resume?

Those guys on Bowe's resume, a lot of them were really good fighters to be sure, but I somewhat do agree, he ducked most of the elite boxers...

In particular, he ducked all the big PUNCHERS!

That's why he wanted to continually fight Holyfield because it was a great opponent he knew he could beat with little risk of being savagely hurt by bigger, more powerful and aggressive boxers. Bowe was never the "small" man.

The first and only time he fought a really good+powerful+tall+heavy boxer in Golota, he got the living crap punched out of him 2ce!