Wilder-Ruiz is a comical mismatch

I'm actually glad this is happening. An actual ****ing fight for Wilder rather than a bum.

It will be interesting to see how Ruiz chin holds up vs Wilder.

This will be a good indicator as to how good Wilder really is tbh. His only decent win is Ortiz, and despite Ortiz being obviously good he's never really fought anyone besides Wilder and Ruiz and lost.

If he can KO Ruiz then Wilder probably claims #3 spot for an impressive recent win. Ruiz and Ortiz wins would be decent proof you're top 5 quality. These are the sorts of caliber of opponent Joshua has had over wilder for while yet I still think Wlad and Povetkin were better.

 

Also Ruiz is not 5ft 11, he's 6ft 2, only a little shorter than 6ft 4 Ortiz.

 

Someone sparred with Ruiz & said he was a hair shorter than him, & he was 6'2".
I would not be surprised if that is true, since people so wide/fat look shorter than they are.
Tyson may have been exactly between those figures.
I have heard 5'10".5 a few times, but if not, he was likely a 1/2" shorter.

 

If wilder wins then I will be surprised and will have to admit he's half decent. I've always felt wilder was useless and his losses to fury haven't shown me anything other than a good chin and heart. Ortiz soundly outboxed him twice, I fancy ruiz will beat him easily. We shall see

 

Ortiz is an extremely good boxer. If he wasn't 100 years old he would be a force and people would rightfully duck him because he isn't a draw...yet Wilder fought him and regardless of how tough it was he sparko'd the guy. There is way more to Wilder than meets the eye.

 

Wilder's skills are limited, but you are waaaaay off on him not even being half decent.
Even without facing the best fighter available, he would not have gotten all those wins & title defenses if he was not among the elite, the few best HW fighters in the world.
Also recall virtually everyone's resume is picked apart-now AJ, Fury also supposedly fought nobody, Usyk is obviously only recently-& very infrequently-fighting at HW.

Problem is, you have confused adding up skills-or subtracting for deficits-with an accurate assessment of ability.
I was never a fan-& as a person he has significant deficits...
But it is like say in Basketball if one guy is completely average, but can somehow catch & always block the ball 5 feet higher than anyone else.
Just the ability to KO most everyone anytime in a fight with that right makes near the very top, despite all the boxing talents he is missing.
And this is delivered due to his height, length, speed & explosiveness.
Of course there is also chin & heart.

I would like to see Ruiz win, but it seems more sensible to make Wilder the favorite.
You will see that it was always unrealistic to think Ruiz "handles him easily".

 

The Neet/short round triangle theories are both in full effect and completely ignored in the same paragraph. Yet more dribble from the basement dweller.

 

Some terrific points made by @Redbeard7

It's always a pleasure to read such logical messages.

 

Sure but that's because Wilder hasn't fought the same level of opposition though. His only tough fight besides Fury was Ortiz, and he was almost KO'd by him in 2018.