Malik Scott: "Wilder Is The Real Deal"

I can see what your saying but you can't compare LaRosa a man who rarely weighed above 250lbs and had wins over Berbick & Qawi to Dustin Nichols a man who fights between 400-450lbs and has a record of 4-8-0. LaRosa was a journeyman who could pull off an upset, Nichols is just a straight up bum. LaRosa would be better than anybody Wilder has fought at this stage of his career, so to answer your question yes it is worse.

 

An olympic calibre fighter doesn't need confidence, fighting poor opposition just stops a fighters growth. Wilder's opponent there was a special kind of poor quality, no better than a heavy bag.

 

I like that Wilder's getting all this attention, it must be a few months now since their last hype job got startched. I was getting impatient.

 

I'm not defending his record, only pointing out how fighters are brought along. Especially those with very little amateur experience.

 

Fair points. :good

 

Than how do you explain Wlad vs a 5'10" 237lb fighter? You're excusing one to dismiss another. Its the same thing.

 

Wilder looks like a hybrid between a wildebeest and a human. Look at those legs, they look like match sticks for pete's sake!

 

His legs look unreal.


Is he a cross between a flamingo bird and Dwight Howard?

 

Hell no. Im excited for Wilder and Scott. Cloud aint ****. Wait till you see what avy im gonna have bama rock.:yep

 

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Scott is multi talented and immensely skilled but it's hard to separate gym ability from championship fight night capability. Scott and Hanks both raved about Audley before he collapsed v Price and Haye... Wilder is looking great v C/D class opposition.. And probably looks like Ali in the Gym.. But we all know deep down that many complexities can turn good gym filters into jibbering wrecks when the cameras roll on fight night.. The jury is still out...

 

Maybe wilder should face Nino rodriguez. another 'undefeated'
club fighter who's feasted on bums his entire career. the winner
would tell us which guy even belongs in the ring w/ a top 10 heavy.

 

Depending on experience fighters are brought along at different rates. Billy Conn for example fought nobody of note for his first 20, 25 fights. Not saying Wilder will go on to that type of career following that route, but its a good example. Both Chavez Jr and SR are two other.

 

Pulev had to be brought up faster because of his age.
Wilder was relatively young when he started, they are right to bring him up extremely slowly like they have been doing. The Kelvin Price fight was an excellent fight, now they just have to keep on working on the tools he has developed, keep working him with high level sparring camps of champs and contenders, and steadily raise the opposition, like they are doing.