Looking at Wilder's resume he was always the young or fresh guy, picking on the elderly. Ortiz ( his best win ) was over 40! Areloa was 35, when he was 30, Stiverene was 39 when he was 32, etc... Nearly every name win for him ( If you call these big wins ) was vs an old has been who's really never beat anyone. Vingar comes to mind. His resume is full of it. Let see how he does at 36-37 vs. a younger man in the mix who isn't washed out. He'll addd to his resume of defeats.
Ortiz 39, Ortiz 40.66, Stiverne 36, Duhaupas 34.5, Szpilka 27, Washington 35, Arreola 35.5 Best wins: Jennings KO7, Martin KO6, Arreola KO6, Helenius KO6, Wach UD12, Helenius KO8, McCline KO4 Wlad 41, Povetkin 39, Whyte 27.5, Ruiz 30, Parker 26, Pulev 39.5, Takam 37 Best wins: Haye UD12, Takam KO10, Chisora KO11, Joshua KO7, Takam UD12, Chisora UD12, Thompson UD12 Ruiz's best win is Joshua KO7 but his 2nd is probably struggling with 40+ retired Arreola and going 12 rounds. Joshua's victims have better wins (if you include Ruiz's demolition of Joshua himself, which is very dubious) but Wilder's victims were more dangerous, hence the 86% KO ratio to the 43% of the Joshua victims (or 29%, if you exclude Joshua KO7) Breazeale is the 8th best opponent beaten for both men so that's where I cut the comparison off. Of their 7 best wins, only 2 of Wilder's were 37+, while 4 of Joshua's were. Objectively it's AJ who likes to fight older opponents, preferably smaller and lighter punching ones. If Joshua had fought Wilder's 45 opponents he'd have 5 losses by now. Fury would have beaten him 3 times and Ortiz/Stiverne would have got him once or twice. Someone else (maybe Duhaupas) could have got him too.
My argument about Wilder’s eighth title defense (against Fury 1) is: “If you beat me, why were you on the floor twice?”.
Exactly that Guy reads far too much in to two people punching each other To the point where its laughable
You could look at those figures and easily say only one of wilders opponents was younger than 34 yet 3 of Joshua’s were under that age. I’ve never seen a poster twist figures to suit a narrative as much.