Deontay Wilder: top 10 wins

AJ could have fought Ortiz but clearly didn't want it. Ortiz was with Hearn who instead threw Dave Allen in there with him resulting in Dave getting a beating and serious injuries to his tongue and other problems. This demonstrates the difference in courage between Dave and hero warrior AJ.

The Chisora fight was obviously there the whole time and they didn't want it either. The 'friends' thing is nonsense, Chisora absolutely would have fought for that money and these people are dumb animals who don't care about any higher concepts of friendship etc. Fury and Chisora were on good terms by the third fight and still fought. They're boxers.

 

Prime Ortiz would defeat any version of Chisora.

He was at least Ruiz level in his prime and was unlucky not to get a stoppage vs Wilder.

 

It doesn't matter if that's what you believe.

 

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Chisora wasn't interested in the Joshua fight

Ortiz team turned down the Joshua fight

https://www.skysports.com/boxing/ne...matic-us-debut-against-andy-ruiz-jr-last-year

 

My guess would be

Ortiz 1
Ortiz 2
Stiverne 1
Duhaupas
Chisora
Breazeale
Washington
Stiverne 2
Arreola
Helenius
Herndon possibly?

 

Deontay Wilder was one of the most colorful and exciting heavyweights of the 21st Century.

His notable wins to date, for me, in no particular order:

Wilder vs. WBC #3 Contender Tyson Fury I (27-0) Wilder's eighth successful WBC Heavyweight Title defense. The undefeated Fury — the former Ring champion, who had just turned 30 and was fighting for the third time in 2018 — was at his lightest, sharpest and youngest of their three meetings. (Better than any version Usyk or Chisora ever faced.) Fury boxed brilliantly, and Wilder matched him punch for punch — and floored Fury twice. Only a long count by the referee in round 12 saved Fury from the KO loss. Still, Wilder entered the ring as the defending World Champion and exited the ring "and still Champion." And some Brits never forgave him for ruining Fury's comeback story. The fight was an official nominee for Fight of the Year, one of only a handful by heavyweights this century.

Wilder vs. WBC #3 Contender Luis Ortiz I (28-0) Wilder's seventh successful title defense against arguably Cuba's greatest professional heavyweight — a two-time WBA Interim Heavyweight Champion and a two-time WBC title challenger. It was an epic brawl between two of the four best undefeated fighters in the division. Wilder scored three knockdowns, stopping Ortiz in the 11th.

Wilder vs. WBC World Heavyweight Champion Bermane Stiverne I (24-1-1) Wilder challenged reigning WBC Heavyweight Champion Stiverne, who was coming off a crushing title win over Chris Arreola and was making his first defense. Early in the fight, Wilder broke his right hand flooring Stiverne — who grabbed Wilder and pulled him to the canvas to avoid the knockdown call. Told to adjust in the corner, Wilder boxed expertly over the remaining rounds to capture the title. Stiverne, who suffered tremendous facial and head damage, was hospitalized after the fight for dehydration. He was never the same fighter again. A phrase that would become familiar as Wilder's defenses mounted.

Wilder vs. WBC #9 Contender Chris Arreola (36-4-1) A personal favorite. And one of the most overlooked chapters of Wilder's career. After WBC #1 contender Alexander Povetkin failed multiple PED tests and was exposed as part of Russia's state-sponsored doping program in 2016, Wilder’s fourth title defense was moved from Moscow to Birmingham. Arreola stepped in as a late replacement. In front of a hometown crowd, Wilder broke his right hand AND tore his right bicep — the latter injury being one that usually causes fights to end immediately. Yet he fought through both, stopping Arreola in eight rounds before being rushed to the hospital. Multiple surgeries kept Wilder out of the ring for the rest of the year.

We celebrate Mike Weaver for stopping Tate in the final round. We lionize Matthew Saad Muhammad for battling through bloody cuts to win. Or LaMotta for stopping Dauthuille in the closing seconds to retain the title. We live in an age when boxers get a cut eye or have panic attacks and quit. But Deontay Wilder — fighting with a broken hand and a FREAKING TORN BICEP - overcomes that and stops the power-punching Arreola, and he receives no credit for it by some fans. This win should be a bigger part of boxing lore.

Wilder vs. WBC #1 Contender Bermane Stiverne II (25-2-1) The mandatory rematch with the man he took the title from was over before it started. With two healthy hands, Wilder demolished Stiverne in under three minutes to make the sixth defense of his WBC Heavyweight Title.

Wilder vs. WBC #8 Contender Artur Szpilka (20-1) When a PED cycling Povetkin requested more time to prepare, Wilder took a short-notice fight against WBC-ranked southpaw Szpilka. The challenger boxed well and kept it close. Then Wilder landed a right hand that knocked Szpilka unconscious. Paramedics removed him from the ring on a stretcher. He was hospitalized for days. Wilder later said he thought he'd killed him. Most if not all unconscious fighters carried from the ring either die or retire. Szpilka vowed to return. He eventually did, a year later, but he never fully recovered and was never the same fighter. He could no longer take a punch.

Wilder vs. WBC Mandatory Contender Dominic Breazeale (20-1) A genuine rivalry between two former US Olympians who really disliked each other. Breazeale had previously challenged Anthony Joshua and earned his WBC mandatory shot by winning an eliminator after Dillian Whyte refused to face him. For Wilder's ninth title defense, a single right hand near the end of round one did it. Joe Rogan, sitting at ringside, said he'd never heard a shot like that before — just the sound of it. Breazeale left the ring for two years. When he returned, he wasn't the same fighter and retired again.

Wilder vs. WBA #2 Contender Robert Helenius (31-3) In his first non-title bout in eight years, Wilder faced the streaking WBA #2 contender, who had scored two consecutive stoppage wins over highly touted and Ring-ranked Adam Kownacki. Hoping to use the same aggressive strategy Fury had employed against Wilder, Helenius charged — and walked into a short right hand that left him unconscious on the canvas inside one round. The win kept Wilder among Ring Magazine's top three contenders, a position he NEVER FELL BELOW in any month from January 2015 through December 2023 — eight straight years.

Wilder vs. WBC #3 Contender Luis Ortiz II (31-1) Ortiz came out boxing aggressively against the only man to ever beat him, and Wilder fell behind on the scorecards. With fans beginning to sense an upset, Wilder landed a lethal right hand just before the bell ending the seventh. Ortiz dropped like a bag of bricks. Wilder’s tenth and final successful defense gave the impression he might be slipping — but his one-punch power remained as lethal as ever. And with Joshua’s loss to Ruiz, Wilder and Fury were the top two heavyweights in the game.

There are two options for a tenth.

Wilder vs. WBC/Ring World Heavyweight Champion Tyson Fury III (30-0-1) In my personal ranking, this fight should’ve been at the top of Wilder’s list. This was the fight that should've been remembered as the night Wilder regained the World Heavyweight Title with a crushing FOURTH ROUND KO and won the series against Tyson Fury … if not for another long count by another referee.

After going to court to force Fury into their contracted rematch, Wilder got off the canvas in round three to floor the champion Fury twice in the fourth. As in their first meeting, the count became the controversy. Fight film shows Fury didn't rise until 10 actual seconds after going down, and the referee didn't resume the action until 23 seconds after the knockdown. Even the broadcast announcers noted after the bell sounded ending the round that it had been “a really” long count. Fury rallied and stopped Wilder in the 11th. But the long count changed heavyweight history. Fury later claimed he suffered brain damage in the fight — a claim his father has since repeated. As it was, the bout was named the Fight of the Year for 2021.

Wilder vs. IBF #2 Contender Derek Chisora (36-13) Fighting as the underdog in his 50th pro fight, a 40-year-old Wilder faced British hero Chisora at the O2 Arena — and spent the night battling both his opponent and the referee.

In the third, Wilder hurt Chisora with a right hand. Chisora called timeout. And the ref, surprisingly, stepped between them and stopped Wilder from throwing punches, called a halt to the action for 20 seconds without issuing a standing eight, then resumed the fight.

In the fifth, Wilder floored Chisora with a right to the back of the head. No count was issued. Instead, the referee stopped the clock, sent Wilder to a neutral corner, waited for a hurt Chisora to rise after 10 seconds and talked to Chisora for eight or nine seconds after before resuming — a de facto 20-second recovery gift.

In the seventh, Wilder rocked Chisora, and Derek pulled Wilder down as he went to the canvas, like Stiverne had done in his first fight with Wilder. Just like that fight, the ref waved it off as no knockdown despite obvious damage.

Wilder punched Chisora out of the ring twice in the eighth. After the first, Chisora's corner illegally pushed him back in. After the second, the referee pulled Chisora in himself and took a point from Wilder, amazingly, for pushing.

In round 11, Wilder punched Chisora out of the ring yet again. This time, the ref reluctantly began to count (because the ringside timekeeper had started it) and then the ref immediately ruled a slip by Wilder a knockdown in Chisora's favor, all but wiping out the knockdown by Wilder.

In any other fight, one of those bad calls would be the focus of attention. But there were so many, they all seemed to blur and get lost in the shuffle.

Take the standing eight not called against Chisora in the third, a knockdown not called against Chisora in the fifth, a knockdown not called against Chisora in the seventh, and throw in a phantom point deduction against Wilder in the eighth, and phantom knockdown in Chisora's favor in the eleventh, and what should have been a dominant Wilder win was suddenly in question.

But with Chisora unable to stay off the floor (or in the ring), even the Brits (despite their conniving) couldn't steal it from him.

Wilder's power, once again, broke up the fix and delivered the win ... and put him, improbably, at 40, back in the heavyweight picture six years after losing his title.

Of course, Wilder has other big wins in his colorful career. KO wins over WBC #8 rated Gerald Washington, WBC #9 rated Eric Molina, WBC #12 rated Duhaupas … a convulsing first-round KO over former WBO Champ Sergei Liakhovich ... a KO over former Olympic Gold Medalist and European champ Audley Harrison … and he MAY HAVE MORE to come … but the others stand out to me.

What a colorful career. Definitely a legend.

 

Yeah, if Ortiz didn't get popped on PEDs the first time and if he didn't duck Joshua the second time.

 

I only look at The Ring. What Dubblechin said right above you.

 

The video probably won't be of interest to you which was just about Chisora, but the other link may be of interest

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Chisora wasn't interested in the Joshua fight

Ortiz team turned down the Joshua fight

https://www.skysports.com/boxing/ne...matic-us-debut-against-andy-ruiz-jr-last-year

 

Hard to say
I put him at 11
Outside of the top 10 I suggested below -
Ortiz 1
Ortiz 2
Stiverne 1
Duhaupas
Chisora
Breazeale
Washington
Stiverne 2
Arreola
Helenius

Which I expect you may have in a different order, but what other 10 opponents do you have above Herndon?
I was considering where some fighters were at the time like Harrison and Liakhovich for example

 

You could be right but his resume does not bear out as much.