I don’t rate wilder at all, in fact I think he’s on borrowed time and has (his careful matchmaking) done really well fooling people into thinking he’s any good. But nah he takes this hypothetical match up. He’d catch him I think.
I think it would come down to a coin flip but the reach & height advantage plus Wilder is pretty damn athletic himself. Its just his skills compared to jones are laughable. It s merely his physical attributes that keep him relevant ... Height, Range & Raw Power.
I'd give Tarver a much better chance at upsetting Wilder in a HW fight. Even the late 40s version. Tarver simply carried the weight better and the move didn't effect his skillset and ability to take a punch like it did Jones. And to top it off Tarver was just more fundamentally sound than Jones who's unorthodox and athletic style came back to bite him. Actually think Tarvers skill and left hand would cause Wilder a lot of problems. I'd go as far as saying that a HW early-mid 00s Tarver beats Wilder.
The Ruiz fight I noticed for the first time when Ruiz caught Roy in the early rounds Roy got a little shaky and you could see it on his expression..... I wish he would have retired after that win
That's why I said Roy doesn't have that but is orders of magnitude faster than Fury so he can make up for it with movement.
Roy's getting pulverized the moment Deontay lands the right hand - if he does. Mason Dixon holds the line, however, if he can deflect/ride with the shot. I'm not sure if even Tarver's chin withstands a full power flush right from Wilder, but anything less, he's probably alright (in a way Jones wouldn't be). And it goes without saying that if you subtract the one-shot KO equalizer, both of them have more than enough skill to soundly outbox Wilder. Tarver isn't as fast as Jones but still a hell of a lot faster than Wilder, and unlike Jones would be strong enough to grind and do some work on the inside.
I don't see how Wilder wins a bout against a prime Roy Jones Jr. People are too focused on what happened to Roy post HW jump, that they forgot he was possibly the greatest boxer we have ever seen from from 93-00. Roy at his peak literally had god-like reflexes, I've never seen another man in history who was able to evade shots and land his own like he did. How the hell is Wilder simply going to walk passed Jones, Roy had more than enough power and most of all speed to get Wilder's respect, the fight is going to be fought at mid range and Wilder simply won't ever get the chance to land a knockout punch, it'll most likely go to 12 since Roy would want to avoid following up on exchanges unless he completely didn't respect Wilder's boxing skills. Wilder doesn't care about winning rounds, this is why he got outboxed by inferior opposition before the KO happened, against Roy there's no chance that KO punch is even going to land. I personally think this is Jones easiest and most winnable fight against a historic Heavyweight champion.
OBVIOUSLY, if Wilder can land his big shots, Roy is F****d . But Wilder would need to land that big one. Better boxers than Deontay could NOT. Ask James Toney. Wilder is dangerous throughout, but if Roy avoids Wilder's artillery, he can potshot the long guy all night for a wide UD. And Roy had decent power too. I could even see a battered Wilder succumbing to a KO in the late rounds.
Roid would make Bootleg D look even more ungainly, uncoordinated, and inept than he already does, if that's even possible, for as long as he was able to avoid getting clipped on that disgustingly feeble old lady glass mandible of his. However, it would be absolutely hilarious to witness the utter devastation Bootleg D's atomic right hand would wreak on that chin if it landed flush on it, not that it would need to land flush on that utter embarrassment of a mandible section to put that glass-jawed freak's lights out for a decade, mind.
Chins are pretty much irrelevant if you're getting tagged with Wilder's best shot you're going to be in a lot of trouble whether you're David Price or Oliver McCall. The ways to beat Wilder are either by avoiding his right hand for 12 rounds and schooling him behind the jab or getting to him first in a gun fight in which you lay some power on his own previously thought to be shaky whiskers. Pick one and commit to it.
Yeah he would school Wilder, until the nuclear right hand lands. And it definitely would land, given the outrageous golf in size between the two. No matter how talented Jones was, there is no way he closes that massive distance again and again, without getting tagged at some point.
