Brownsville's 3 heavyweight champs against each other in 1997

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  • famicommander
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    Brownsville's 3 heavyweight champs against each other in 1997

    There are three heavyweight champions who came from Brownsville, Brooklyn around the same time: Mike Tyson, Rid**** Bowe, and Shannon Briggs. If you were to rank them as all timers, obviously that's the order you'd rank the three of them in.

    But what about in 1997? If the three of them did a round robin that year, what are the outcomes?

    Briggs in 1997:
    W TKO 2 vs Eric French
    W TKO 1 vs Melton Bowen
    W RTD 9 vs Jorge Valdes
    W MD 12 vs George Foreman (won lineal heavyweight championship)

    Tyson in 1997:
    L DQ 3 vs Holyfield

    Bowe in 1997:
    Did not fight after the two messy Golota fights in 1996

    So, assuming no draws or other shenanigans, who wins:
    Mike Tyson vs Rid**** Bowe
    Mike Tyson vs Shannon Briggs
    Shannon Briggs vs Rid**** Bowe

    And how?
    20
    Tyson over Briggs
    30.00%
    6
    Briggs over Tyson
    5.00%
    1
    Bowe over Briggs
    15.00%
    3
    Briggs over Bowe
    15.00%
    3
    Tyson over Bowe
    25.00%
    5
    Bowe over Tyson
    10.00%
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    Last edited by famicommander; 04-20-2020, 05:51 PM.
  • daggum
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    well briggs was never good but tyson still would have wrecked him at that point. bowe was pretty shot at that point so i could see briggs winning.

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    • The D3vil
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      Tyson's my all-time favorite guy, but in 1997, looking back, he was shot.

      Rid**** Bowe was shot too.

      Briggs wins this by default.

      Tyson & Bowe were both in the depths of either addiction or mental illness by this point and weren't any good to anybody

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      • paulf
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        #4
        Mike had enough left to stop Briggs in 97. Bowe was done.

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