How will this affect Joshua? He’s already going to face the feather fisted cruiser who toyed with him for eleven rounds then showed him another gear in the twelfth, now he’s going to have the guy he DUCKED so hard, that a drug addled fat depressed fury had to fly to America to restore the good name of the UK, sitting ringside. Josh will be facing the bogeyman of his waking hours in the ring, with the bogeyman of his nightmares watching on through the ropes: how will big joshs glass ticker hold up the first time he hears “BOMB SQUAAAAD” bellowing out from the front row? Not well I fear. An early KO for USKY (perhaps via QUIT?) looks more and more likely whichever way you slice this one. Also I’d pick Wilder to stop USKY with relative ease, USKY is NOT difficult to land a right hand on flush. Thoughts?
Wilder is 0-2-1 with a 6’9 ATG heavy Joshua is 1-1 with an obese middleweight and 0-1 with a feather fisted cruiserweight Wilder is the best active heavy to many seasoned observers, he has every right to be front and centre for this one
Has Wilder confirmed that he will be there? It sounds like hearsay, I personally doubt he'll be there. Usyk isn't a KO puncher so his best chance of stopping AJ is late by accumulation and exhaustion. Usyk hasn't stopped a notable cruiser before the 8th round and hasn't yet stopped a notable heavy over 12. Usyk would be winning the fight as long as it lasted, Wilder would put all of his eggs in one basket and go for the KO (which, contrary to popular belief, is not his typical strategy). Usyk would probably be favoured at this stage considering that we don't know how much Wilder has left. But if Usyk didn't stop Wilder and I don't think he would, he'd have to be very switched on to not get caught with a big right hand or two over 36 minutes.
2 fights he’s lost by ko in 2 years. Active? Agreed, he’s possibly the best of a bad bunch. I’m not praising Joshua btw, I know what he is too.
He'd be better off rekindling his beef with Tony Bellew. The bum dosser has 0 chance of fighting the winner of Usyk v Joshua.
He’s garbage. As you say though, he has won every fight he’s been in bar Fury. Shows how bad the division is bar Fury and Usyk. I’d just like to see him be forced to fight one or two lesser opponents before getting in with these types again. Only fair considering the crap he had to beat to be champ first time around.
Wilder v Joshua/Whyte/Joyce are very good fights with uncertainty of winner. Fury and Usyk simply wrong style for him and nearly the entire division.
Of course he has the right to be there. His best win is a 46 year old Luis Ortiz so no need for the hyperbole though
Wilder has every right to be there, and hopefully he shames this cervix to grow a pair and have a fight!!
You are delusional on a number fo levels/ Wilder accidentally admitted to the world that he ducked Joshua, not the other way around. As for Wilder beating Usyk...Usyk would beat him a hundred time out of a hundred. Wilder is a clown with a good right hand, but Usyk is one fo the most skilled operators in boxing, and has one of the most proven chins. Wilder would literally have no chance at all.
