A young Deontay Wilder fighting in the Olympics

Thanks for posting. Unfortunately YouTube deletes content faster than a person can blink.

 

Too bad Usyk lost in the quarterfinals, or Wilder and Usyk would've met in the Semifinals.

 

Imagine if they let Fury compete in the 2008 Olympics instead of Price

SPICY

 

Wrong division. Price was Super Heavyweight. Wilder and Usyk were Heavyweights.

 

You'd think the IOC would have better things to do than stopping people watching 13 yr old fight footage.

 

Wilder did pretty well considering his style is not really best suited to the AMS

 

Very impressive for Wilder to have the success he did with the style he had and the complete lack of competitive experience. Definitely an interesting athelete

 

It's blocked because he embedded it through this site. The IOC wants you to watch it on their site so they get the clicks. You can go to YouTube and type the name of the video above and the IOC's site will come up and you can watch it.

 

I still want to see Wilder Vs AJ after Fury has dealt with Femi.

 

You can't argue with his success, but in some ways Wilder's power set him back. He might have become a decent boxer with some pop based on good athleticism, but he got the flashy early knockouts and designed his stance, punching style and everything else on bombing guys out. Again, he has made a ton of money, been WBC champ, etc., but I do wonder.

 

if you consider how inexperienced he was his jab was actually pretty decent.
Fun fact: Clemente Russo has wins in the amateur ranks and World Series of Boxing over Wilder, Usyk, Majidov, Makhmudov, Junior Fa, Romanov and Yoka, that's not bad at all. I don't like his stlye (fast lead right hands to score points and falling into the clinch right after it), but you can't deny that the guy is talented and pretty athletic.

 

He had a much better jab and left hook in the amateurs. His left hand in general was of actual use which is a rare sight to see nowadays.

 

Russo is a legend of the amateurs for a reason.