Could Wilder have bombed it out with Rid**** Bowe?

[Black Jesus]

I mean in a heavyweight championship fight?
I think this would have been a great fight with someone getting ktfo in 5

[Rusty Tromboni]

He was using his double jab well against Fury.

And that lazy jab disguises his right hand well.

Bowe was a sucker for the jab.


But then Bowe liked to get inside and make it nasty.

It's a tough call. Bowe gets handicapped because he's no longer the bigger man with the bigger punch.

Wilder is also more focused.


It's a fight I'd pay good money to see.

[clemenza]

i feel Big Daddy beats Wilder pretty easy actually. Rid**** would be shooting right hands all night long over the top of wilders left hand that he loves to leave down by his hip.
Another point is Wilder would never back Rid**** Bowe up.
You need to work behind a jab to be a good Boxer at any level, and Wilder seams like most of the time he’d rather fight like he’s in a Bar at closing time throwing wild over hand rights.
Bowe by unanimous dec.

[QueensburyRules]

I mean in a heavyweight championship fight?
I think this would have been a great fight with someone getting ktfo in 5

- -Both adverse to fighting any threatening peers, hence their low hanging fruit careers.

A nonfight in their career realities. They'd both take a Floyd Patterson fight though!

[Scopedog]

It's a fight either guy could conceivably win, either one could land first and finish it right then and there. I think Bowe would have been too skilled and too big though - not in terms of height but in terms of his build, I think that Wilder would find it very uncomfortable if Bowe goes on the front foot and puts it on him. So essentially he has to land his bomb off the back foot going backwards, which he's shown he can do, but it'd have to be hard against such a big heavyweight with such a threatening and varied arsenal of punches.

[Rusty Tromboni]

It's a fight either guy could conceivably win, either one could land first and finish it right then and there. I think Bowe would have been too skilled and too big though - not in terms of height but in terms of his build, I think that Wilder would find it very uncomfortable if Bowe goes on the front foot and puts it on him. So essentially he has to land his bomb off the back foot going backwards, which he's shown he can do, but it'd have to be hard against such a big heavyweight with such a threatening and varied arsenal of punches.

Yeah, Bowe's inside game could be horrible for Wilder.

But of the two Wilder does have the bigger punch, and seems to be able to gut ot out better.

I'm not saying that saves him against Bowe, but it's why I'd put my money on Wilder if a gun were to my head.

[Rusty Tromboni]

i feel Big Daddy beats Wilder pretty easy actually. Rid**** would be shooting right hands all night long over the top of wilders left hand that he loves to leave down by his hip.
Another point is Wilder would never back Rid**** Bowe up.
You need to work behind a jab to be a good Boxer at any level, and Wilder seams like most of the time he’d rather fight like he’s in a Bar at closing time throwing wild over hand rights.
Bowe by unanimous dec.

It looked good against Fury. But Fury was a force of nature that might.

Bowe was pretty easy to hit himself, and less resilient than Wilder.

You might be right. And I might be surprised, but i wouldn't be shocked. But Bowe has kinda become the new Max Baer. He didn't give us much to work with, but people make big claims (supportive and derisive) based off that limited and inconsistent work. Not saying anyone is right or wrong, but i'm not as confident as others at making such definitive statements.

[NChristo-]

It looked good against Fury. But Fury was a force of nature that might.

Bowe was pretty easy to hit himself, and less resilient than Wilder.

Where do you get the idea that Bowe is less resilient than Wilder ?, he's up there with the most resilient ever, even if he didn't turn up in amazing shape he always shown heart.

[Rusty Tromboni]

Where do you get the idea that Bowe is less resilient than Wilder ?, he's up there with the most resilient ever, even if he didn't turn up in amazing shape he always shown heart.

Yeah, we never saw him laid out. And he never folded to attrition. So I went overboard if I insinuated he's soft. But Fury was beating the brakes off Wilder, and he didn't want out of the fight.

Undersized Holyfield brought the fight to Bowe, and Bowe (although victorious) was never the same again. Let's not forget he almost always fought men whom he towered over.

I certainly can't envision Bowe taking any number of Wilder's widowmakers.

[DeeMoney]

He was using his double jab well against Fury.

And that lazy jab disguises his right hand well.

Bowe was a sucker for the jab.


But then Bowe liked to get inside and make it nasty.

It's a tough call. Bowe gets handicapped because he's no longer the bigger man with the bigger punch.

Wilder is also more focused.


It's a fight I'd pay good money to see.

I think this is a pretty solid analysis. I'm glad to see I wasnt the only one that thought Wilder was using his jab well early on v Fury.