Wilder would just punch through him though. His reach, power and accuracy combined with Joshua's porcelein chin would end it within a couple of rounds.
Somewhat crude opinion to be honest. Joshua could quit easily blitz wilder too. I would not rule out wilder doing that, as that is his plan A (and seemingly only plan) - but at some point you have to look beyond that singular approach - and Joshua has gone up in the estimation today after showing more elements to his game against better opposition, whereas wilder still only seems to have that one thing and may have even regressed in my mind after his last two performances (1 punch KO of Ortiz non withstanding). Which is why I added that caveat to my assessment.
For the record, I like Joshua, Ruiz, and Wilder. But Joshua schooled Ruiz with that game plan tonight. No getting away from that fact. He didn’t engage in a firefight, and rightly so.
If Wilder this good why has he faced bums or boxers not as good as say AJ ??? I know your duck this point just like Wilder would.
How many times has he been knocked out ? How many times was he put on his azz by a 42 year old shot has been? How many tim es has Wilder submitted and quit ? All credit for winning the fight tonight but everybody goes overboard with the "new" AJ................he fought a non entity tonight who trained diddly squat but moved into a Taco joint full time.....dem are the facts......Ruiz was never ever able to press the Bodybuilder because he was grossly out of shape................watch Ruiz/Parker or even the first fight with AJ and the difference is night and day......AJ fought off the backfoot plenty in the first encounter and jabbed but Ruiz took the jab away with educated pressure and brought the heat to AJ who could not cope with it.............no excuses but 300 pounds of lard aint doing the same thing. Fact.
Wilder was knocked down by 18-24 journeyman, was badly hurt by Eric Molina twice and almost got KO'ed by 420-years-old Ortiz in the first fight. Hell, he was even rocked by feather-fisted Fury in the 12th after knocking him down
There's a reason why Wilder managment have avoided putting Wilder against even one known powerful puncher his whole career and avoided them like the plague. It's clear by their cherry picking they have no faith in his chinn whatsoever if not they would of put would Wilder against AJ in $100m deal offered to them.
Yeah against Ortiz, Dauhapas, Breazeale, Stiverne, Washington and Spzilka. AJ has shown it against Wlad, Povetkin Whyte, Parker and Ruiz. There is a humongous gulf in quality there. Levels.