BOOM! -- Deontay Wilder is the new WBA #1 Contender

Honestly, you guys need to give it up with this "punching" argument already.

Wilder didn't stop Tyson Fury, the largest World Heavyweight Champion in boxing history, who Wilder gave up 40 pounds to in all their fights, and yet Wilder still dropped him four times.

That's it. Just Fury. Wilder stopped everyone else he fought.

On the flip side, some of the guys who went the distance with Bakole and Gassiev are downright comical ... Ferenc Zsalek, Lukasz Rusiewicz, Kamil Sokolowski, Roman Mirzoev, Daniil Zakharenko, Igor Pylypenko, Ivan Serbin, Ivan Bucarin, Ismael Abdoul ... among others.

Hell, Hearn specifically picked Jermain Franklin for Joshua to blow out ... and even he went the distance.

Wilder will be the hardest puncher Usyk has ever faced.

Nobody needs to argue this. Wilder is a brutal puncher. Usyk is a great boxer. If Usyk can take Wilder's punch, he'll win. If he can't take it, he'll lose.

It's real easy. Now, the WBA just needs to make it.

 

You can't get much poorer a level of opposition than the guys I named, and Bakole and Gassiev didn't stop them.

(I even left off all the name fighters they didn't stop )

Wilder stopped all his **** can opponents. He stopped all his ranked opponents. He stopped all his title challengers ... all except Fury.

Bakole couldn't. Gassiev couldn't. Joshua couldn't.

Stopping everyone you've fought isn't easy, regardless of who they are.

Catch up. Basically everyone's finally figured this out except you.

 

Nothing you just typed there makes any sense at all.

Wilder knocked out all of his pro opponents except Fury. Wilder was green when he turned pro. He still knocked everyone out.

To put things in perspective, Gassiev didn't stop all the cans he fought. Gassiev didn't stop all the contenders he fought. Gassiev only stopped half the guys he fought cruiserweight title fights. And Gassiev hasn't fought anyone at heavyweight.

Deontay Wilder hits harder than Gassiev. If you don't agree, you're wrong. Same with Marco Huck, Chisora, Chazz ... they don't punch harder than Wilder.

I don't know why you're bringing up Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson, because Usyk hasn't fought them and isn't expected to.

The days of arguing IF Wilder can punch are over. He's ONE-PUNCH-KOED his name into history among the heavyweights.

Wilder fought 42 different men, he stopped 41 of them. It didn't matter if they were good or if they sucked, if they were lighter than him or heavier than him, if he was green or if he was injured, if they were ranked by the WBC, the WBA, by Ring or not ranked at all.

He stopped them all except Fury. He made 10 successful WBC Heavyweight title defenses, scoring 9 stoppage wins.

Deontay Wilder punches harder than anyone Usyk has fought. He can punch.

If you haven't picked up on that after the guy has left everyone he's fought for last 14 years either out on their feet on flat on their backs staring up blankly at the lights, one conversation with me isn't going to change your mind.

So I'll leave it at that.