Over paying Martin ? 5 million is a good offer more than Ortiz Wilder fight . Your right though about Martin which is why he took the Joshua fight he wanted worldwide champion recognition gotta give him props for the two stepping up . Fact is this Martin if you rate him or not actually stood up and fought and was willing to take a chance , unlike Ortiz or Wilder . Yes Martin was propped up as world champion at the time he had a belt and many people said Martin could win this if the rounds went on . So what is the excuse with Molina fights against AJ and Wilder ?
Well, if you recall, Wilder broke his hand in his title win against Stiverne. He did not have surgery to repair it. Showtime had a date open, but Wilder's team was afraid it would break again, because he opened camp only three months after breaking it. So they chose Molina because he seemed like a safe first defense and Wilder wouldn't have to come out blazing for that one, since he was coming off a hand injury. But it wasn't a great performance. Exciting, yes. As always. But not a dominant win. Once Molina started fighting back, Wilder forgot about the hand and stopped him. The BIGGER question is why on earth did Anthony Joshua defend his title against Molina after Deontay Wilder knocked him out in a title fight? What was the point of that? Wilder HAS to fight Breazeale or he'll get stripped. The IBF wasn't threatening to strip Joshua if he didn't fight Molina. Wilder had knocked out Molina. Arreola had knocked out Molina. So Hearn/Joshua give Molina a SECOND title shot? And Dillan Whyte can't get his first? Why didn't Hearn make Molina fight Helenius, and Chisora twice, and Parker and Browne and Rivas? Whyte should sign with PBC. I don't want to follow a sport where Eric Molina gets two title shots and Whyte doesn't get any.
Deontay Wilder has avoided prime decent heavyweights like Joshua, Parker and Whyte, and instead chosen to fight limited (Washington), shot (Arreola), old (Stiverne, Ortiz), or chinny (Szpilka) opponents. Anthony Joshua who started his career years later than Wilder, fought prime top 10 heavyweights like Whyte and Parker. Wlad though past his prime was a long-reigning ATG heavyweight. Fury had only one significant career win and he didn't win impressively, he fought cowardly and his team used a lot of head games and dishonourable tactics the day of the fight (having Wlad wrap his hands twice, having the mat which Wlad needed for his old legs removed, etc). When he fought Wilder, Fury was coming off a long lay-off and recovering from mental health and drug problems. Luis Ortiz has poor stamina, he's old as Methuselah and suffers from an old man's health problem, high blood pressure. Joseph Parker unlike Fury was in his prime, never had drug problems, never became severely obese, never had a long layoff, and never had mental health problems.
Fury is better than Wlad. Ortiz is better than Parker. Both will fight Breazeale. Both fought Molina. Povetkin is better than Duhaupas (although Povetkin was on PEDs and Duhauapas only took the fight on 24 hours notice, Povetkin was better). Szpilka has beaten better fighters than Takam. Washington has beaten better fighters than Andy Ruiz (Washington's best win may be Eddie Chambers/Ruiz's may be his last, Dimitrenko). Hell, Malik Scott beat better fighters than Ruiz. Hell, LIakhovich deserved the win over Ruiz. And that's about it. Joshua doesn't have anything on Wilder when it comes to opposition. If anything, Wilder has faced better opposition, as I've pointed out here. It's all just smoke. People like to blow it. But it's just smoke. Nothing to it. Joshua has nothing on Wilder in terms of quality of opposition. On the contrary, Wilder likely has faced the better opposition.
Well Wilder has avoided AJ like the Plague. Fury has only just returned to the sport, so I have no idea how you expect AJ to of fought him. And Ortiz could of had the fight but thinks he is worth 10 million yet his biggest pay day to date was 500k. So discussion over
Imagine the nonsense that would of been spouted if Joshua had fought a returning Fury at that stage. Fury's thin resume and weight/substance abuse problems would of all we heard about. Then if Joshua got a robbery draw - well we'd never hear the end of it.
Man, I used to think Wilder was the biggest disgrace, but: 1) He doesn't play weight games 2) He doesn't stack wraps 3) He doesn't stack judges 4) He doesn't use peds 5) He doesn't have a spoon abusing greasestain of a manager and that goes a long way in my book. Yeah, he's as thick as a plank, has minimal boxing skills and his opponent choices are on the whole, abysmal. But he did fight Fury and Ortiz and that also counts for something.
Tyson Fury fails a doping test.... gets banned... goes on a coke fueled rampage and almost kills himself with obesity, 3 of the 4 opponents he fights since coming back are complete no hopers, walks away from an anticipated Wilder rematch, ect ect. Funny how fans love drinking the Fury koolaid tho.
Thank you Deontay, for that exciting fight against Dustin Nichols back in 2010. And dismantling the gypsy king and old grandpa Ortiz. Please don't be tempted to take that fight with the bodybuilder Joshua. I seriously think he might be juiced up to the gills!