I like Wilder. He's young, charismatic and athletic. He's exactly what the heavyweight division needs. But is he too good to be true? I'd love the idea of Wilder unifying the titles and bringing them back to America. I want Wilder to succeed, I just don't know if he can. He easily beat Stiverne when many said he'd get knocked out easily, but how much better can he be?
Wilder is a total fraud, with a glass jaw. He fought nothing but tomato cans for over five years - some of the worst I've ever seen a prospect face in 35 years of following the sport - and even some of these stiffs had Wilder on the canvas! Then he fought some totally washed up fringe fighters in Harrison and Lyakhovich, and never-was Malik Scott. Stiverne is the only halfway decent fighter he's faced in a seven year pro career. And then it was straight back to the tomato can circuit for Wilder. Wonder why? The answer is right in his fragile mandible!
He's a lot better than his haters think but not as good (yet) as MVC thinks. He's a lot better IMO than anyone else in the division, and has loads more power, and has power that we havent seen in a while in the HW division. He fights bums, but he SPARKS THEM OUT. Listen, regardless of competition, if it was so easy to knock out all of these bums, every fighter would do it. But they didn't, which is why we have DW at the top and not somebody else. Is it a strong division? No, but Wilder, Fury, Johua are probably the freshest thing in the division since Samuel Peter or David Haye.
If he was good it would be great for boxing as he is a very exciting fighter to watch. I don't think he will be that good, has good potential but I don't think his chin will stand up well enough to be champ for a long time and he doesn't have the technique to box his way to victory like Klitschko does.
Why? He's not that young anymore. He wasted five years of his career fighting walking dead corpses. What part of him is charismatic? The beating up hookers in Las Vegas? The insulting of a true legend in Mike Tyson. Comparing himself with Wlad Klitsckho, a real champion? Having his buddy Malik Scott take a dive? The atrocious use of the English language? The title defenses against unconscionable opponents? The *******ual Mardi Gris mask video? The hackneyed and delusional yelling of "bomb squad" for no reason. The guy is delusional about his own capabilities and borderline re****ed. He is as stiff, deliberate, and windmilling as they come. I honestly think when you nuthuggers say he is "athletic" is is a code word. Some thing for "slick" and all of the other faux superlatives. He is manifestly none of these things. No, the heavyweight division needs someone who is going to defend his "title" against better oppoents than Molina and Duhaupas so that it is worthy of being unifed with the real championship behing held by Wlad Klitsckho, who has 18 title defenses and taken on all comers. God I hope this is a troll thread. Being knocked down by Dustin Nichols...Harold Scoiners...brining in buddy Malik Scott to take a dive...defending agaisnt Molina and then going life and death...s****ing the barrel to find Duhaupas... No, he is not too good to be true. He is not even going to defend against his mandatory. Let me clear this up for your, he can't. Stiverne is a guy who was beaten in four by Demetrice King. Wilder has proven that he is marginally better than Dustin Nichols and Harold Scoiners, and not nearly as good as prime Demetrice King. Find a better pair of nuts to hug.
At the moment he's a paper champion and that seems to suit him just fine. He's not bothered that he's seen as a joke within the boxing community and thinks the public at large recognise him as 'world champion' when in reality he's just a contender who's feasted on an awful level of 'opposition'. It all comes to an end when he fights Povetkin anyway. The russian KO's him or proves him to be a world class fighter. I'm going for the former.
I hate to say it but I feel like he's wasted his formative years fighting no hopers when he should've been building skill and confidence and is now going to be thrust into the wilderness without survival skills. Stiverne was truthfully tailor made stylistically and was also sick during the fight and could barely punch. Would he beata healthy Stiverne? I think so, but mostly due to severe stylistic advantages in favor of Wilder.
If Stiverne was 'sick' against Wilder then Wilder's right-hand was 50% against Molina. For some reason I highly doubt people would accept the latter yet they would easily accept the former... Anything to knock Wilder down a peg, shame he didn't develop at the pace he should have.
I'm still not sure how i should rate Wilder. He is for sure one of the biggest punchers in the last years, is very athletic has quick hands. He will KO Duhaupas in the first 3 rounds. I would like to see him retire 1 or 2 guys of Thompson, Arreola, Chagaev, Tarver or Briggs next before he fights the Povetkin/Wach winner next year
He's definetly not as bad as his haters think or as good as MVC! thinks. His height, speed and power are good enough to be top5 in this not so deep division.
Deontay The Bronze Bomber Wilder will be a H.O.Fer and he will destroy Duhaupas this weekend. He will stop him for the first time in Duhaupas's career.