In their last fight, who faced the better oppo? Joshua, Wilder or Fury?

I'll go Wilder.

Brezeale on paper going in 18kos out of 20 wins. One loss to a champ deemed better than Wilder & was on a 3 fight win streak.
Physically as big, height & reach.

Ruiz 2nd and Schwartz wasn't on my radar to ever make an objestive assessment. Most I can say is on paper Schwartz has no one on his resume that was credible enough for Fury to consider taking this fight.

AJ & Wilder had legit foe's.
As far as I can tell, this was the only farcical mismatch.

 

Wilder of course. But that's easy to say in retrospect. If Wilder had knocked out Ruiz in that third round those that now sing Ruiz' praises would be calling him the new Butterbean.

 

Ruiz is head and shoulders above breazeale and schwarz.

Its not even close

Just because Ruiz was slept on doesn't make breazeale better who is probably fringe top 15 at best.

 

Or they could watch him struggle to top Liakhovich and come to a different conclusion. Some thought he deserved the Parker decision, but it wasn’t a thrilling fight and his punch output didn’t impress.

Go show me all the posts from knowledgeable insiders who picked him to upset AJ, and especially to blow him out. You’ll find out outlier or two, but I can also show you a couple where people picked Schwarz to beat Fury last night.

Ruiz was an underdog not just because the public saw a fat guy but because boxing insiders saw a short, skilled-but-hardly-overwhelming-and-somewhat-limited fat guy. It wasn’t like 50 percent of the boxing insiders who know their stuff were picking him to win.

 

I think Ruiz, Breazale, then Schwartz.... in that order.


AJ Lost

Breazale is better then Schwartz.... so Deontay has the most significant win. Fury did exactly what was expected.