Carlos Negron is set to be Wilders opponent on June 12th I guess Martin was too dangerous for Wilder.
If true, Could have been worse. It's will be his first fight back after a bad loss and a long lay-off. PPV anyone?
It will be a good appetizer until Deontay deals with the Joshua and Fury winner. Well done bomb squad, well done Mr Haymon, put it on a PPV alongside Ruiz Arreola. lol
Honestly I'd be surprised if he fought anyone decent on his return. He's not fought for over a year, is coming off a devastating loss and based on his most recent behaviour seems to have mentally unraveled. His handlers would have to be stupid to throw him in with anyone with even half a chance.
The man would have been out for nearly 18 months and coming off a beating.. who should he be fighting? How old are some of you? Have you seen some of the legends resumes? Not calling Wilder a legend BtW. For example, Robert Duran was knocked out by Thomas Hearns.. his next fight was against Zambrano 9-10-0.. Duran was 77-6 at the time of that fight. Thomas Hearns 48-3-1 fought Ken Atkins 11-4-0 Sugar Ray Robinson 144-9-3 (after losing to Gene Fullmer) fought Wilf Greaves 34-20-1 and only won by a SD. It isn't the opponent that would concern me, it's the new trainer, Wilders plan to attack the division, what his motivations and ambitions are.. and what's next after an opponent like this? Is it Whyte? Ruiz Jr? Just get Wilder back in the ring, let him get a couple of very quick KO's, then go from there, all fighters are different and Wilder didn't take that Fury defeat very well so I'm OK with this type of opponent. Easy to criticise Wilder, I have many times, but let him have a couple of "gimmes" and go from there.
Where would you place him in murderers row? 1st Ethan Cox, wasn't ranked 2nd Shannon Gray, wasn't ranked 3rd Richard Greene Jr, wasn't ranked 4th Joseph Rabotte, ranked 393rd in the World 5th Charles Brown, wasn't ranked 6th Kelsey Arnold, wasn't ranked 7th Travis Allen, wasn't ranked 8th Jerry Vaughn, wasn't ranked 9th Ty Cobb, ranked 399th in the Heavyweight World 10th Alvaro Morales, wasn't ranked 11th Dustin Nichols, wasn't ranked 12th Shannon Caudle, wasn't ranked 13th Harold Sconiers, wasn't ranked 14th Dan Sheehan, wasn't ranked 15th DeAndrey Abron, wasn't ranked 16th Reggie Pena, wasn't ranked 17th Damon Reed, ranked 304th in the World 18th Dominique Alexander, wasn't ranked 19th Daniel Cota, ranked 489th in the World 20th David Long, wasn't ranked 21st Marlon Hayes, ranked 368th in the World 22nd Jesse Oltmanns, ranked 492th in the World 23rd Owen Beck, wasn't ranked 24th Kertson Manswell, ranked 310th in the World 25th Damon McCreary, ranked 357th in the World 26th Kelvin Price, wasn't ranked 27th Matthew Greer, ranked 325th in the World 28th Audley Harrison, ranked 136th in the World 29th Siarhei Liakhovich, ranked 43rd in the World 30th Nicolai Firtha, ranked 121nd in the World 31st Malik Scott, ranked 86th in the World 32nd Jason Gavern, ranked 194th in the World 33rd Bermane Stiverne, ranked 4th in the World 34th Eric Molina, ranked 37th in the World 35th Johann Duhaupas, ranked 34th in the World 36th Artur Szpilka, ranked 24th in the World 37th Chris Arreola, ranked 43rd in the World 38th Gerald Washington ranked 41st in the World 39th Bermane Stiverne “inactive for two years and UNRANKED at time of fight" 40th Luis Ortiz - ranked 6th (39 years old may not have been medically fit to fight) 41st Tyson Fury - artificially thrown back into rankings after 3 years single handedly supporting the Colombian economy.