Prime vs Prime Boxing 3 matches?

1. I pick Duran

Roberto outside game is good enough that he wont be out of his depth vs Mayweather when boxing from range and Don't forget whos punches will be taking their toll on who the most when they do land as both guys will surely make each other miss plenty.

Durans pressure, cutting off the ring, body punches & willingness to put punches together in bunches should be enough to give Floyd a nightmare.

I fully expect Duran to get hit & hit hard but the problem is, I dont see him getting hit with anything thats going to stop him from coming forward & getting into his rhythm by putting unrelenting pressure on Mayweather.

Terrible match-up for Floyd.

Duran UD Mayweather (8-3-1) & thats with Floyd taking the 1st 2 rds.

2. Prime Bowe is big, has a great jab, can fight from both outside or inside, and has a great chin.

Wlad has an amazing jab, really good power, glass chin, and is strictly an outside fighter. Wlad panics when he gets hit which he will while facing a fighter like Bowe.

I'd say Bowe stops him Mid-Late rounds.

3. I pick Lewis. Foreman is easy to hit and has no real head movement. His guard is not tecnhically good and he doesn't move off punches so he is available for combination punching.

His own shots are wide, and Lewis has tidy feet and is a great in-fighter, and great at timing stepping inside. Have a look at what Lyle did to Foreman and have a think what a composite puncher like Lewis might acheive

Mayweather Wide Decision

Wladimir Ko 11

Foreman Ko 6

Easy:

1. Duran by KO

2. Bowe by UD

3. Foreman by KO

1. At lightweight Duran via decision.

At welterweight it can go either way though i lean towards Duran.

Anywhere higher Duran via knockout.

Allot of people are on Leonards bandwagon but most experts including Bert Sugar, the IBRO & ESPN agree that the greatest p4p fighter the last 30 years was Roberto Duran. Americas general public doesn't give Duran much thought because he's not American. They ignore that Duran was out of shape in the 2 fights in which he lost to Leonard & it was planned [according to Leonard himself].

2. Wladimir via decision. Bowe did very little, he dodges the best of his era. Wladimir may have dodges Valuev but Wladimir is much more technically sound then Bowe, he has far more belts and far more defenses of those belts.

3. Pick-em. Lewis had the ability to outbox most greats. I believe he could jab and grab prime Foreman for a decision but Lennox was a very inconsistent champion [unlike Wladimir]. Lennox would seem invisible in one fight and his next he would get annihilated. Foreman had the size, reach and power to knock Lennox out, basically a punchers chance. Still; in general i choose Lennox UD. I think Lennox performed when intimidated.

Usually when greats fight in their prime fights end in decision.

The interesting thing about your question is Three Matches. Judging by the way you word your question, I'm not sure if you mean These Three matches or Three matches Each, involving these fighters. So I'll do a bit of both.

I've never believed that one fighter's superiority over another could be determined in one fight. Of course, styles make fights. For this reason, there are always those fights where superiority can be decided in one fight.

Example: Try finding anyone who believes that Joe Frazier could ever beat George Foreman. Now, I'll tell you something interesting. I could tell you how Joe could possibly pull it off. It's a stretch but it's still possible.

The short of it is that Frazier was clearly not his best when he was destroyed by the still developing Foreman. Imagine if Foreman faced the Pre-ALI version. Joe was never the same after the first ALI fight, which took so much out of him................but you didn't ask about this one, did you?

1. Duran vs Mayweather: I've held firm my belief that Duran could have been equally as great at 147 as he was at 135, if only he had the discipline to train. His fight with Leonard proves that. Look at all of Mayweather's fights at 147 and ask if any of his opponents would beat Duran on the night he beat Leonard.

Of course Mayweather wouldn't make the mistake of standing up to Duran, as Leonard did. Still, Duran would find a way to make the ring smaller and stop Mayweather from doing what he does best. Mayweather's defense consists of making the opponent miss, primarily by blocking. That means that the opponent is still close enough to hit. Duran would crowd Mayweather and take him out of his game. He wouldn't try to box Floyd because that would be foolish.

In the real world, I could see Mayweather taking the series 2 of 3 only because of Duran's terrible habit of not training and ballooning up in weight between fights. However if he could, somehow, match the intensity of the first Leonard fight, Duran takes this series 2 of 3.

At 135, Duran possibly takes all three, again, if he trains. Floyd was still growing and reached his prime at 140. At 147, IF he trains as he did against Leonard, Duran takes 2/3.

Edge: Duran

2. Bowe vs W. Klitschko: Combing my deepest reserves, I don't see ANY scenario where Bowe comes out on top unless you take the very green version of Wladimir who was pole-axed by Corey Sanders and Lamon Brewster. Once Wladimir matured, he locked up his defense and became the closest thing to the most Fundamentally Correct boxer the division has seen since Joe Louis.

Bowe has had ONE great performance for which he is given more credit than he deserves. Giving him the best benefit of the doubt possible, he still comes up short. Forget the fact that Bowe was Clearly Afraid of Lennox Lewis and would likely have been destroyed had they met. Just think of the two fights with Andrew Golota. Do you REALLY think Wladimir would do any worse than Golota did? Take away the fouls and you have Bowe, at best, surrendering on his stool and, at worse, being bludgeoned along the ropes before a Wladimir combination puts him to sleep.

Riddick Bowe is clearly overrated by Americans who still refuse to give Wladimir his due credit and point to Bowe as someone who could match size for size.

Here you have one of the sport's most diligent workers, in history, against one of the laziest. Bowe makes that lazy group of heavyweights from the 80s (the 80s babies) look good. Wladimir would quickly realize that Bowe can't take it to the body and he would beat him unmercifully until he is forced to quit. Luckily, he's not facing Vitali.

I don't see Riddick Bowe winning one of these fights.

Edge: Wladimir 2/0. A third fight wouldn't even be necessary.

3. Foreman vs Lewis: Easy. I can start with the results.

Foreman blows Lewis out in the first fight. KO 3. Lewis learns from his mistake and uses his equal strength and greater size to hold, tie up and box Foreman into submission in the rematch. He narrowly escapes a second KO loss and scores a TKO himself in round 9.

In the third fight, Lewis, still careful, becomes a bit more aggressive and stops Big George in 8.

Edge: Lewis 2/3

1.Duran by ko in 10th or 11th

2.Wladimer by decision

3.Foreman by ko in 4th or 5th

duran by ud.

wlad by ud.

foreman by early ko.