That’s horse****. Wilder shouldn’t have been in the ring tonight, he wasn’t mentally or physically prepared for a world class fighter.
He got the strap through politics. And a fixed fight with Malik Scott. His resume is garbage. Not the worst belt holder ever but the worst hyped up one
Ortiz's rating was mostly based on eye. He could box but he too fought few live opponents. The PBC specializes in holding belts hostage.
Heavyweight alphabet champions of the last 20-odd years: Byrd, Jones, Sanders, J. Ruiz, Brewster, Vitali, Rahman, Valuev, Liakhovich, Wlad, Maskaev, Briggs, Chagaev, Ibragimov, Peter, Haye, Stiverne, Wilder, Fury, Martin, Joshua, Parker, A. Ruiz, Usyk Haye was arguably Wlad's best win and one of the stronger fighters on this list, let's have a look at his heavyweight championship record: Valuev, J. Ruiz, Audley, Wlad (wide UD loss) Pre-championship KO loss to a 40+ blown-up LHW with a 32-6 record, post-championship KO losses to blown-up LHW Tony Bellew. Ducked Cunningham at cruiser and Fury at heavy.
I've been getting stick on this forum for years for saying Wilder is the most protected band overrated HW of all time. Wilders best win is Ortiz (another very overrated HW) went life and death and was dropped twice by Charles Martin of people. Completely out classed and out worked against an underrated Parker.
Yet many of those names would have been Wilder’s second best/ best win. He got smoked last night, as did Wallin, you are looking a bit daft after years of trash talk. This is what happens when you fight journeymen your whole career and step up at the end. Wilder is nowhere near the ATG and to think you said him vs Wlad was a 50/50 lmao.
I said he’d beat Parker but I’ll admit when I’m wrong. Sadly all those fanboy, especially the ones who have you hate, are all too cowardly to admit they were badly wrong. They’ve been exposed now anyway, and you were proven correct.
July 2018 Mitch: Post-Wilder 1 Luis Ortiz > Whyte and Parker. He admits that Wilder beat a better fighter than Whyte or Parker, which by his own logic puts Ortiz as the 4th best heavyweight at minimum (he claimed that “2nd ranked” Povetkin “might be able to beat Ortiz” in August 2018) and Wilder well above Whyte or Parker. August 2018, 9 and 10 switched in October 2018 Mitch: Wilder is the 3rd best heavyweight on "resume", KO'd 6th ranked Ortiz, who KO'd 9th ranked Jennings, who is above Chisora and by extension Takam (who Chisora KO'd). Fury doesn’t have a top 10 “resume”, he’s below the likes of Chisora. April 2019 Mitch: Wilder would be a top 10 heavyweight in any era
And that's precisely the problem... The eye test is only any good at the level you're fighting at. Ortiz looking slick against third rate fighters doesn't make him A grade. Ortiz best achievement was looking good against a disinterested Jennings... Whose best claim to greatness was losing a wide UD to Wlad on the best performance of his career. Ortiz was always overrated.
Road to the Heavyweight Championship was paved for an audience starving for an American Heavyweight Champ.
You guys say Stiverne was **** to discredit Wilder, but Stiverne probably would have beat an Akinwande or even a Rahman or Maskaev..... Even Brewster. Lol
You can write another 15 epilogues, NEET. But the fact remains, Wilder got schooled by Joseph ‘Paintdry’ Parker. HAHAHAHAHAHA “Biggest puncher in history” and couldn’t put a dent in Parker.