James Jeffries vs Deontay Wilder

No clue.

I didn't actually think Molina was too bad. The timing was good. Made it look like he was going to play the "one for me one for you" game. And he managed to fight a legitimate top ten guy in the fight before scooping up his belt. So I was horrified by Molina as an opponent, but i at least understood.

But then it was Duhaupas. Pus? Pas. Dunno. Anyway, Duhaupas had actually lost to Erkan Teper six months before. That was a tragic, tragic defence.

Then Szpilka. Didn't make the Fight News top ten (now defunct) not in the TBRB top ten, probably in an alphabet top ten where you can actually just pay for a ranking, don't know. But this is Wilder's best defence during the Embarrassment Years.

Wilder's fourth defence was against Arelloa and in many ways was his most cynical. Two wins in his last six. Stiverne broke his nose. Stopped him in six in a rematch. Beat an unknown called Curtis Harper over eight rounds. Lucky end of a ten round draw with Fred Kassi. Very, very close split win over Travis Kauffman changed to an ND after Arreola got caught for recreational drugs, of course he got a fight with Wilder very next time out. Awful, awful match-making for a pre-eminent heavyweight.

Next, Gerald Washington. Unranked (TBRB, RING, Fightnews, Boxing News, anyone serious) then Stiverne again, who had boxed ten rounds in about three years I think.

Awful, just absolutely awful, like the defences of a very minor south American light-flyweight milking a belt. Very, very bad.

I credit him since 2018, but those years were tragic, really awful.

 

That's pure fantasy. I have no time for Joshua. This is pretty typical of the paranoia your posting about Wilder brings forth. I explained why I thought Molina was ok in the post - if you want to reject that, fine, but don't make me a fan of a fighter I don't really like in defending your favourite.

Is this supposed to stand as some sort of defence? Because it absolutely does not. These were pitiful, miserable defences for a supposed world champion.

Agree.

 

No, I didn't praise Molina, this is more fantasy.

You seem to be struggling: here it is again in bigger letters.


I didn't actually think Molina was too bad. The timing was good. Made it look like he was going to play the "one for me one for you" game.

Some more help. Because Wilder fought Molina right behind Stiverne, and because Stiverne was a legitimately ranked fighter, I found Molina as a defense less pathetic at the time. It was still awful. But when a fighter fights a strong guy followed by a weak guy, it's less objectionable to me. It was still a pitiful, pitiful defence. And Wilder just fought one after the other, awful defence after awful defence.

But to make myself absolutely clear, as I wrote in the post you've misrepresented so badly:

I was horrified by Molina as an opponent

If you actually want to understand my meaning (which i know you probably don't) you should fixate on this part of the post rather than the part you did.

 

Molina was very, very, very bad. Atrocious. A pitiful defence. One of many Wilder staged.

 

Criticism of the resumes of other heavyweights cannot hope to shield that atrocious level at which Wilder fought for much of his reign. We've had Joshua as persecution fantasy, Jeffries and now apparently Tyson Fury non-title fights.

That the level at which Wilder defended his strap was indefensible, of course, is the reason your attempts at defences are so desperate.