Uncanny parallels between Vitali Klitschko and Deontay Wilder

Wilder wouldn't quit against a natural sub-cruiser and he'd have poleaxed a twice one punched champion if given free shots.

 

"Vitali gave Lewis all he could handle"

McCall and Rahman destroyed him.

"Would have won if it wasn't stopped"

Pure speculation, the fight ended at the halfway point in Lewis's favour.

"hell we've seen cuts just as bad"

Contender Vitali was the B-side, he wasn't going to get the benefit of the doubt. He needed to fight smarter.

"yeah he had had an off night against Byrd"

He got taken into deep waters by a natural sub-cruiser, quit and ducked a rematch.

"never touched the canvas"

Vitali had a very good/great chin, I don't think anyone disputes that. He still lost twice by TKO. Many journeymen have had excellent chins.

"gets smashed to pieces"

That description only applies to three fights in Wilder's career: Ortiz 1 (in the last 45 seconds of the 7th round), Fury 2, Fury 3.

 

The Lewis fight didn't have a natural conclusion but I don't see how the Byrd loss is "debatable", Vitali quit.

Their careers aren't similar in every respect but they have some fundamental similarities, that's what the OP articulates.

 

"It's not that Sanders never loses hypotheticals match-ups"

Sanders wins hypotheticals way out of proportion to his success, the opposite has been true of Wilder. 84% had Gassiev beating Wilder by KO in 2018:

https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/gassiev-vs-wilder.601322/

In reality, Sanders lost to club fighter Tubbs and fringe contender Rahman 100% of the time and failed to KO 33% of his 46 opponents. But I'm sure Sanders KO's everyone on Wilder's resume in hypotheticals.

"Rahman was actually a good fighter and I'd have favored him to beat Wilder."

He was favoured to beat Klitschko era gatekeepers Maskaev x2 and John Ruiz too. He one-shotted Lewis but so did 24-5 fringe contender McCall.

"Chisora would have been the 2nd/3rd best fighter Wilder faced and very easily could have walked him down and knocked him out."

Chisora admitted that he wouldn't fight Ortiz because he didn't want a "hard night at the office", so that puts Chisora below Fury x3 (who he couldn't lay a glove on as proven in fights 2 and 3) and Ortiz x2, so 6th or 7th. Chisora's KO ratio against his best 16 opponents is 12.5%, only taking out Scott and Takam in competitive fights. He wouldn't have done anything with a Wilder who still wanted to be in the ring. He'd have beaten the mess we saw against Parker and Wilder when he was very green.

That's all I have to say on the topic.