What Famous Knockdown in Heavyweight History Does This Remind You Of?

Wilder is the most deserving heavyweight of all the fighters in the top 10.

Wilder has a draw with the World Heavyweight Champion (dropping him twice) and he iced the #4 contender TWICE (scoring four knockdowns against him). No other contenders in the current top 10 can match that.

And he has one loss in a 12-year, 44 fight career, and that loss came to undefeated World Champion. No one else in the current top 10 can match that, either.

And Wilder will get the first crack at Fury in August.

So no. No one else deserves a chance more than he does.

Most of the guys in the top 10 don't even have fights lined up for 2020 (and we're nearly three months into it), and Wilder has already fought Fury and has another fight lined up with him this summer.

As I said yesterday, Wilder's loss pulled back the curtain on the rest of the contenders. None of them are doing squat in comparison.

 

Wilder has better credentials against the current top 10 than any other contender for Fury's crown.

And if the result of the fourth Pacquaio-Marquez fight had come in fight two, after the first-fight draw, there wouldn't have been a third or fourth fight and Manny may have no wins over Marquez. (Luckily, Wilder had a rematch clause.)

We've seen close fights in series' and one-sided wins, too.

There have been any number of heavyweight series where the individual fights were one-sided.

As I posted elsewhere, Ali-Frazier 1 was clearly won by Frazier. Ali-Frazier III was clearly won by Ali. The second fight was the only close bout. Johansson clearly won fight 1 against Patterson. Floyd clearly won fight 2. And their third fight was a barnburner where both guys were dropped twice. Bowe-Holyfield 1 was clearly won by Bowe. The rematch was close. The third fight, Bowe clearly won again (except for the round Evander dropped him).

It's difficult to predict how things will go while you're in the midst of these types of series.

I can see the first Wilder-Fury fight being the close one. The second being the fight Fury wins convincingly. And the third being the one Wilder KOs him in. Who knows?

We'll see in August. Should be good.

 

Fury was like a steamroller Saturday. Without a doubt. But, like the clip in the first post in this thread, it may have looked more impressive on TV than it actually was, as at least one of the two official knockdowns was Wilder tripping over his feet against an on-rushing Fury.

Wilder may need to learn to sidestep Fury like a bullfighter for the third fight and land the right as Fury goes by.

In fight two, Wilder was movng straight back.

 

Wallin didn't drop Fury twice and fight him to a draw.

And Wallin isn't fighting for the World Heavyweight Championship next.

Deontay Wilder is fighting Fury next.

Otto Wallin is fighting Lucas Browne.

That's the way it works.

One guy is fighting for the WORLD Heavyweight championship next.

The other is fighting Lucas Browne.

Welcome to the real world.

 

Yep.

 

Deontay Wilder knocked down Tyson Fury two times and fought him to a 12-round draw.

Wallin didn't come close to dropping Fury. Wallin lost a one-sided unanimous decision to Fury. Whereas Wilder drew with Fury.

Wallin has never beaten or fought to a draw with a top fighter. And Wallin isn't fighting for the World Championship next.

I don't know why you're bringing up Otto Wallin. Is he the guy you think is more qualified than all the other contenders? Wallin isn't even ranked.

Wilder is fighing Fury for the world championship next. And deservedly so.