When Joshua fought Wallin and Wilder fought Parker on the day of reckoning card Instead Joshua fought Wallin instead cause he/his team thought that Wilder was too much of a risk
I think partly your right but Wilders team also wanted a tune up. Keep in mind Parker was paying $7 to win that fight lol.
Why is this nonsense idea still around that Wilder was this feared and avoided fighter? Nobody avoided him; in fact, he was the one who ducked everyone with a pulse. The guy had a carefully cherry-picked career. Joshua was trying to fight him for years. It was Wilder who turned down 100 million USD because he didn't want the smoke from Joshua. Not only that, but Wilder ducked Klitschko, who, after losing to Fury, reached out to fight him for the WBC belt. Wilder ducked him. Wilder ducked Whyte when Whyte was ranked number 1 by the WBC. Wilder even ducked Charles Martin, for goodness sake. Last year he was simply not in Joshua's path toward the Fury fight that Joshua was gunning for. Wilder has always been a garbage fighter with a garbage resume, a disgusting desire to murder someone, and a delusion of epic proportions. In his own mind, he is a better boxer than Ali, Lewis, Holyfield, and Usyk put together times ten. I hope to never hear his name again; he was almost as bad for the division as Fury, and it was very satisfying to see him put to the canvas by Zhang.
Wilder’s legs were like wood in that Parker fight hence I knew Zhang was going to wipe the floor with him this weekend. AJ would have mullered him if they fought last year.
This may all be true but the fact is that Joshua and his team didn't feel like he was ready for the Wilder fight last December and that is why Joshua fought Wallin instead.
People invested so much into that narrative that Joshua ducked/was ducking Wilder that even now they can't quite let it go even though it now makes them look ridiculous.
I don't think Joshua ducked Wilder back in 2018 Joshua and his team did however feel reluctant to face Wilder in December of last year. Why else would they need to fight Wallin as a tune up fight with Wilder on the undercard when a deal was in place to fight Wilder next on the condition that both fighters won Keep in mind this is after Joshua had not 1 but 2 tune up fights after the 2 Usyk loses
How does anyone seriously deny that Joshua and his team felt like they needed some more fine tuning after his 2 Usyk loses before a fight with Wilder
Also Joshua could've fought Wilder even after the loss to Parker instead of fighting Ngannou. Probably would've been a bigger fight also and with Wilder being so desperate he would've probably taken the fight
Let me ask you this: even if true, what difference does it possibly make now? Wilder's career is in shambles, and even the few fans he has left have to look back and realize that he has no legacy to speak of whatsoever. Having Wilder on AJ's resume would be a bit like having another Dillian Whyte--its a name, but not one that makes or breaks the career. Now that is established, what is your alleged source on this, anyway?
So you are saying that AJ was planning to duck Wilder all the way, right? Is there a source that AJ was offered to fight Wilder, instead of Wallin and AJ says, no i want to have a warm up ? Also explain us why in the blue hell would AJ want to have a southpaw warm up for Wilder? Or you claims that AJ was just pretending he is going to fight Wilder, and always planned to ducked him? And this is where i cannot take you seriously, having in mind the other ridiculous thread about AJ resume you have going. Your theory goes to scratches buddy, as AJ signed to fight Wilder, which was confirmed by everyone. AJ won his fight against Wallin. Wilder lost against Parker, which was the only condition for the fight to happen. So the only case of a ducking you can make is that Wilder was scared of AJ, and deliberately loses to Parker ....