Better career: Anthony Joshua or Deontay Wilder

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Better career: Anthony Joshua or Deontay Wilder

  1. Anthony Joshua

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  1. Ph33rknot

    Ph33rknot Live as if you were to die tomorrow Full Member

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    No one can deny Aj there
     
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  2. KINGWILDER

    KINGWILDER Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Firstly when did AJ duck Fury? The same guy who avoided the undisputed fight for a year to fight a trilogy with Chisora and face Ngannou. You can argue Joshua ducked Wilder, but not Fury.

    Ortiz, Wilder’s signature win, was old and past his best. Joshua has wins over Povetkin and Wlad who had far more impressive careers and were of similar age. Whyte, Pulev, Ruiz, Parker, and Wallin are better than anyone Wilder has beat (bar Ortiz).

    Wilder’s resume is filled with journeymen and mediocre heavyweights. Plus when he fought Parker he lost every single round, a performance due to his inactivity, complete lack of fundamentals, struggles against fast punchers, and age. I do not buy the argument he is utterly cooked, I think Parker’s performance is underrated against him.

    So when you look closely, Joshua’s resume is well clear of Wilder’s.
     
  3. Jackomano

    Jackomano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    This.
     
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  4. northpaw

    northpaw Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    They've both been beaten down and humbled before, Joshua has ranked higher, made more, been more celebrated and even after 3 losses considered # 3 in the division. This ain't close concerning who had a better career.
     
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  5. JDub

    JDub Active Member Full Member

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    Joshua and it’s not even remotely close.
     
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  6. JDub

    JDub Active Member Full Member

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    This a really terrible take. The mental gymnastics on display here are actually impressive.
     
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  7. Mitch87

    Mitch87 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Wilders record is closer to Chisora standard than AJ.

    Wilder and Chisora best career wins are on par with each other in turns of ability in Ortiz and Takam. Both have Spzilka and Washington as two of their most notable wins.

    Whilst AJ has beaten the likes Wlad, Povetkin, Whyte, Parker, Ruiz, Pulev and Wallin.
     
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  8. Ice8Cold

    Ice8Cold The Hype Job Spotter. banned Full Member

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    Am I sure? Yes I am absolutely sure that Wilder in his best days would have absolutely brutalised the Wilder that lost to Parker.
     
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  9. The Cryptkeeper

    The Cryptkeeper Boxing Addict Full Member

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    People can say what they like about AJ but he's been in there with the best and beaten some excellent fighters.

    Who has Wilder beaten? ****ing nobody. Old man Ortiz? Give me a spell. Wilder is a can crusher and a fraud.
     
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  10. BubblesUK

    BubblesUK Doesn't buy hypejobs Full Member

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    That doesn't answer my question... Are you sure Wilder could've proved much more than he actually did?
     
  11. Finkel

    Finkel Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yeah, I don't get it either.

    Some still go on like Wilder didnt duck Joshua and it was all somehow Joshua's fault.

    Joshua's side made so many offers to them. Every time Team Wilder had a criticism, and every time Team Joshua came back with an improved offer to address the issue. And every time there was a new issue for Team Wilder. In the end Team Wilder was basically saying it's 50-50 or nothing and that was BEFORE Wilder had ever done a PPV. It was ridiculous!

    The guy even admitted to ducking undisputed to chase the Fury rematch (which he was extremely confident of winning) for a year.
    :confundio:
     
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  12. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    The greatest trick The Dosser ever pulled was convincing the boxing world he's not a can crushing hype job
     
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  13. Ice8Cold

    Ice8Cold The Hype Job Spotter. banned Full Member

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    Will get grilled to bits for this but anyway.

    I think in Wilder's best days he was definitely capable of beating Ruiz, Whyte, Povetkin. Even Parker. I'm NOT saying he would beat them but I think he had a good chance of beating those fighters.

    Bar Joshua, but I think the Ortiz that fought Wilder was also definitely capable of beating these guys I listed. Ortiz was super unlucky not to beat Ruiz at aged 43. Then again I'm NOT saying he would beat them.

    It wouldn't have surprised me if Wilder beat Joshua in a similar way as Ruiz beat him.
     
  14. Grinder

    Grinder Dude, don't call me Dude Full Member

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    I agree with all but one thing - Fury's career is still very questionable. His performance against Usyk will be his career defining moment, not scraping past a Wlad who clearly had issues and then ducking the contractual rematch by retiring.
     
  15. catchwtboxing

    catchwtboxing Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    How and why is this even a question? Wilder sucks.