Riddick Bowes legacy? ------

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Nope, I didn't realize that at all. Well played, you even painstakingly spelled out the joke to keep the knee slapper going.

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Riddick Bowe

Lost to Tony Tubbs in my view, and about 80% of the TV Viewers who called in.

Around those Table discussions on Friday Night, who talks about Riddick Bowe being a very good fighter.

No one.

Get me that Pia Zadora Album..........

'Riddick Bowe Struggles Past Tony Tubbs, Decision Booed'

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q= ... 4ZNJcb64VQ

This is the first time I've ever heard this.

I haven't seen the fight in a long time, but when I watched it, I never came away thinking Tubbs was robbed.

I'm going to need to rewatch this bout.

[SaadOffTheDeck]

Riddick Bowe

Lost to Tony Tubbs in my view, and about 80% of the TV Viewers who called in.

Around those Table discussions on Friday Night, who talks about Riddick Bowe being a very good fighter.

No one.

Get me that Pia Zadora Album..........

'Riddick Bowe Struggles Past Tony Tubbs, Decision Booed'

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q= ... 4ZNJcb64VQ

This is the first time I've ever heard this.

I haven't seen the fight in a long time, but when I watched it, I never came away thinking Tubbs was robbed.

I'm going to need to rewatch this bout.

Dempsey and Alp have been saying it for years. Your initial recollection is spot on. Nice effort from Tubbs, crystal clear win for Bowe.

[Ezzard]

He was a fantastic heavyweight…

But I can’t help but think that he profited from coming along when there was another great heavy (Holyfield) who he had a huge size advantage over.

He had a great jab…that he often just didn’t use…and he had great courage…

But he gave away one of the belts. Cheated the fans out of the Lewis fight, even though he had already agreed to the fight. And he was only 28 when Golota beat him up.

He seems like a good guy now…

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He was a fantastic heavyweight…

But I can’t help but think that he profited from coming along when there was another great heavy (Holyfield) who he had a huge size advantage over.

He had a great jab…that he often just didn’t use…and he had great courage…

But he gave away one of the belts. Cheated the fans out of the Lewis fight, even though he had already agreed to the fight. And he was only 28 when Golota beat him up.

He seems like a good guy now…

Agree with this, but he is such an enigma for me.

I saw him interviewed on Ringside last year & he was in complete denial about the ducking of the Lewis fight.

He actually tried to accuse Lewis of ducking HIM.

Like you say, he had great courage, but I will forever wonder why he didn't want to fight Lewis, when any other fighter would have been chomping at the bit to get in there & get some sort of revenge for the Olympic defeat.

I know Newman was controlling him, but that fight could easily have happened had Bowe insisted on it.

[SaadOffTheDeck]

I never understood the Lewis duck either, though I think he made 10 million fighting Dokes & Ferguson. So HBO could be partially to blame.

[hhaehre]

Riddick Bowe
Lost to Tony Tubbs in my view, and about 80% of the TV Viewers who called in.

Bowe didn't loose that fight. Tubbs was old and fat but did better than expected and there you have the recipe for how a guy suddenly won the fight a decade after the fact. I had Tubbs winning only a couple of rounds but he was fairly competitive.

As for the legacy of Bowe, I find him a little overrated. He matched up well with Holyfield who played right into his strengths but he rarely looked special vs. anyone else with a pulse. He is in the bottom half of the top 30 at hw I guess.

[Bobbyptsd]

Old and Fat Tony Tubbs, was the better man in the later Rounds.

This was the first sign of 'Dog' in Riddick Bowe.

I had Tony TNT' Tubbs the winner by 5-4-1, just like everybody else at Caesar's Casino.

Riddick loaded up on beating up smaller men or older guys with no punch.

Lennox Lewis would have destroyed him within 5 Rounds, and left him in trash-heap
at Center-Ring.

Remember when he used to come into the Ring with the 'Batman' get up.

'Batman Bowe'................'a friggin clown act'

You have trouble gettng 1 person on a goddamn message board to agree with your babble, and I'm supposed to believe that everyone of thousands of people at that event agreed with your exact, ridiculous score?

Not sure why I'm wasting my time. I used to think you just really hated Ali for some reason. I'm starting to realize you're just delusional about boxing and perception in general.

[Giancarlo]

Duchess, no one agrees with your constant shite.

Go back to Eastside.

Oh, hang on. They banned your lying racist arse didn't they?

[Bobbyptsd]

You want a 'used' Batman outfit

Riddick Bowe, a grown man coming into the Ring wearing a Batman outfit.

Batman,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,give me a break !!!

Lay off the weed, nutjob.

[Ambling Alp II]

Riddick Bowe

Lost to Tony Tubbs in my view, and about 80% of the TV Viewers who called in.

Around those Table discussions on Friday Night, who talks about Riddick Bowe being a very good fighter.

No one.

Get me that Pia Zadora Album..........

'Riddick Bowe Struggles Past Tony Tubbs, Decision Booed'

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q= ... 4ZNJcb64VQ

This is the first time I've ever heard this.

I haven't seen the fight in a long time, but when I watched it, I never came away thinking Tubbs was robbed.

I'm going to need to rewatch this bout.

Dempsey and Alp have been saying it for years. Your initial recollection is spot on. Nice effort from Tubbs, crystal clear win for Bowe.

I have never said any such thing. Btw, I probably think more highly of Bowe than most people on this Forum.

[SaadOffTheDeck]

My bad, I must have mixed you up with someone else. Probably John L.

[HeavyHitters]

I'd probably put Bowe in the top 20 of all time, but given his talents and how he squandered alot of it by getting fat, and showing up to fights out of shape, puts him farther down the list than what he could have been. If Bowe would have stayed in shape for about 5 to 10 years, defending his crown 8 to 9 different times, would have garnered him a top 5 spot.

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