He couldn't knock out Charlie Z. I don't care how many KO's he has...he couldn't knock out Charlie Z. **** him.
Plus he is on video where he's talking to a LDBC Member about wanting to paralyze fury for life while both are laughing about it, sad individual.
Bring back Mr. I Want a Body on My Record, I say. That guy lives by the sword and dies by the sword, which I respect more than the displays of facile generosity to his unders. As for Wilder's relationship with Fury, they don't have to be friends, but he should have just given credit and vowed to avenge without allowing the LDBC whisperings/cheat theories into his impressionable mind. He's too entrenched in that BS now, can't bring himself to walk any of it back, and it's more a tarnish to his image than any of the comments he made about wanting to kill a man in the ring (which involved feelings more complex than his attempts to articulate them, or than most would care to grasp, and are therefore misunderstood).
This is touching, but i get it. Some of us are so predisposed in our thinking of others due to race, economics or whatever it may be that you attack something that should be appreciated. Wilder's no Saint, but neither are any of you throwing the stones ffs. His presser was the sad reality of boxing no one wants to hear, but all of us need to hear. The phrase "you don't play boxing" will stick with me.
He's a full blown racist. In his mind and those LDBC mind, a guy who looks like tyson fury should never be able to best someone like wilder. When it happened, their small minds were scrambled so bad they could not comprehend reality. Its like when someone has a psychotic break and ends up with schizophrenia. They simply cannot comprehend reality so their mind starts lying to them.
The "I want a body on my record" was a poor shout but these guys have to sell themselves to a public that often talk purely about their key selling points. In wilder's case, he had fearsome power but still hadn't become a household name. It's frightening that people find it acceptable to judge someone who expresses emotion, purely because their profile means it is shown publicly. Would any of you make fun of friends and family for doing the same? He's only human just like them.
Or it was a bloke who was beaten for the first time and that had seen somebody stand up to his power for the first time do what any top level athlete should do... To him the impossible had happened and denial makes people say crazy things in place of having to admit to themselves that they're not the best.
I don't think it was a bad shout ultimately, because he went on to qualify it; "They know my demeanor, and, if I say I’m going in there to try to kill a man like I have, I accept that, in return, he will have to kill me as well." He just isn't lying about the reality of his job is all. That's the real source of his post-fight presser breakdown this past Saturday night. Cognitive dissonance. He was going out there to decapitate a friend, a man he's broken bread with. It's not normal. It's messed up. He knows it. But it's who he is. He cannot resist the call of the Colosseum. And he's unfiltered (and dumb) enough to try to communicate these feelings, where others will keep their counsel and leave them unspoken. Guys think they're really watching a sport. Come on now.
Wilder landed a whopping total of 3 punches on Charlie and every single one sent Charlie flying lol. One punch sent Charlie flying about 10ft. "bUt hE dIdNt kO hIm!"
He didn't though. Charlie Z has certified granite in his jaw. Fighting a man 7 weight divisions above him who is "the most dangerous puncher of all time" and wasn't KO'd.