Must read article on Rid**** Bowe

[Dynamite Kid]

Great read but i always thought Rid**** Bowe was a bit overrated, i see him get totally outboxed by a shot Tony Tubbs who was really on the downslide. I see him have quite alot of trouble with Tyrell Biggs who was also on the downslide.

Rid**** Bowe always struggled with fighters who fought him on outside, or fighters who had good jabs and kept him at range. He got destroyed by Andrew Golota, because he could never counter Andrew Golota's jab, and he would never move his feet to get out of the range of Andrew Golota's jab. Which is why he always got caught on the counter with the jab.

He had big problems with Evander Holyfield in there 2nd fight, because Evander Holyfield used stick/move tactics do you see a pattern emerging here ? with the kind of tactics that gave him trouble against Tony Tubbs, Tyrell Biggs, Andrew Golota x2, Evander Holyfield 2, ?

If Rid**** Bowe would of fought a prime Lennox Lewis in the late 1990s, Lennox Lewis would of destroyed Rid**** Bowe with his jab like Andrew Golota did. I give Rid**** Bowe a shot at the early 90s version of Lennox Lewis who was sloppy and had bad balance.

But i think there were many other Heavyweights who had just as much talent, as Rid**** Bowe and threw it away. Greg Page, Tim Witherspoon, Ike Ibeabuchi, ETC. Its only because Rid**** Bowe had great wars with Evander Holyfield. That he is seen as some sort of force that would of never been beaten in his prime which is untrue.

I dont think Bowe was overrated he was just finished as a fighter by the time he fought Golota,Holy 3 and Hide, because of his eating habits.


I believe Bowe would of beaten Holyfield if the fan man had not landed on the ring, because Holyfield had been expending a lot of energy in the fight moving and punching and Bowe was about to start catching up with him imo, but Holy got a rest and benefited more from it than Bowe. If you look at the rounds where Bowe used the jab he controlled Holyfield, but he just neglected to use the jab in the fight and came in overweight. The fight was still very close having said all of that.


Frank Bruno was outboxing Lennox. What about Tony Tucker vs Lewis he gave Lewis all he could handle and he was past his prime. Ruddock Ko'ed Lewis and Mercer gave Lewis 12 rounds of hell.

Lewis would of beaten Bowe in the late 90's, because he was shot, but if Rahman can knock Lewis out and Mercer can do what he did to him and Shanon Briggs can rock him, im pretty sure had Bowe still been in his prime then he could of whooped Lewis too.

Look at what Bowe did to Bert Cooper. Take a look at how badly Holyfield and Moorer struggled with Cooper.