No it isn't based on height and reach at all. Thomas Hearns was 6'1 with a 78 inch reach. No one would envision Rocky having any difficulty cutting through Hearns like a hit knife through butter.
Ruiz by a fair distance but props to Northpaw for the Hunter shout out. I don't tend to get tribal...if a fighter is good, I root for him. But we all loved Hunter senior, and I would really like to see Junior crowned a champ.
Michael ''The Bounty'' Hunter Jr. #1 World Championships 2007 Defeated Andy Ruiz Jr RSC-OS 3 Them's the facts. Deal with it.
Ruiz is a better counter puncher than Hunter who got hit too much by Povetkin to stay away from Wilder`s right hand for 12 rounds, Wilder will have too much reach for Hunter who has never proved he can get inside a longer reach and work on the inside without getting hit, the first solid shot will blow him away.
I don't think so, neither of them are out and out counterpunchers, if either man has an edge in that department I don't think it's by a lot. Ruiz's superior balance would be a much bigger factor. He was getting hit by short looping shots on the inside by Povetkin, do you expect Wilder to fight like that? How many straight shots from range do you remember Povetkin landing in that fight? On the flipside I could fully see Wilder getting finished early if Hunter rushed in early, and got him on the ropes, like he did Povetkin. He ain't got the heart that Sashas got, Beyonce wouldn't even share the ring with Povetkin. Does the name Ustinov mean nothing to you? Yeah everything we've seen of Hunter so far indicates, he has a worse chin than Stiverne.
Even though the Bounty Hunter is Ruiz's surrogate father and he stopped him in the ams, I will concede that Ruiz has the best single win out of the pair of them in the pros but that's only because AJ didn't want that smoke with Hunter. In fact, I even predicted the duck before AJ pulled it and once again Serge was proven right as is so often the case. AJ wanted that smoke with Ruiz but he sure as hell didn't want any with the Bounty Hunter.