Even though fury laid out the blueprint to beat Wilder I can see Whyte winning until he gets KTFO having that said wilder might be done. Sometimes when you are done you are done, the mystique has been destroyed.
I wouldn't say lying, just trying to make a fight should Wilders team choose to do so. I totally understand if Wilder doesn't want to fight against a very high risk opponent before his title shot.
Not the easiest to predict confidently. Definitely by KO, probably Whyte by KO but no surprises if Wilder gets the KO. Whytes resume is levels on Wilders (more a reflection of the weakness of Wilders than the strength of Whytes) so as long as styles don't suggest otherwise you typically have to favour a far more proven fighter... If Whyte comes in aggressive and looks to go through Deontay, he takes this with relative ease - if he gives Wilder more space to operate then he's in trouble... It'd be interesting to see just because it could so easily go either way... Assuming Whyte gets his game right I'd have to favour him. Wilder has power, but he's also consistently ducked Whyte and that suggests he doesn't like this matchup - I can't imagine his seemingly fragile confidence picking up over a fight he's actively wanted no part of up to this point. Really anything goes, but I do slightly favour Whyte.
If he truly believes he wins, it's easy money and a much needed confidence boost. Truth is you're bang on with that word "risk" - there must be a reason he's declined to fight Whyte so many times already and it's even less likely that he's confident of winning now.
I don't know about "more" weaknesses... Whyte definitely seems to have gone backwards a bit of late, but his resume is levels on Wilders (not that that's a difficult achievement) for a reason - he's not terrified of taking difficult fights. Wilder on the other hand has consistently refused to fight anyone who looks like they'd pose him serious problems - even Fury looked like a perfect cherrypick on paper (at the time) and always fought with enough room for Wilder to operate, he'd have fancied his chances at KO in the second too given that Fury wasn't going to threaten to KO him back... The rest is obviously history. Wilder always has a chance and if Whyte goes cautious to avoid the kind of perfect counter Povetkin dropped on him he'd be in big trouble - but Wilder isn't remotely close to Povetkins level technically and Whyte would open himself up to more risk if he did.... But mentally, can he just go out and bulldoze a fighter with power like that? We'll probably never know because Wilder ain't ever taking this fight - when he was full of confidence and bravado he didn't want any part of it and he certainly won't now.
To be honest, i couldnt blame Wilder on this occasion for saying no What does he gain compared to what he may lose?
Whyte won't see the second round, but he might see the ring with WIlder standing in it, when his head lands in someone's lap at ringside.
Whyte never had an invincibility gem and after Wilder knocks him out he is back in the land of the average fighter
Money and a clear bump to his resume if he wins. But to be honest I'm with you, if I were Wilder I'd run a mile from this too.
