(PRIME) Anthony Joshua vs. (PRIME) Deontay Wilder

Who wins and why? How does the fight play out?

 

Wilder by KO, upcoming, prime, or faded.

Even if Wilder goes down I see him get up and still KO Joshua.

 

I think Joshua punches too straight and would get to Wilder quicker than Wilder gets to him.

 

Wilder ko

 

Wilder smokes aj

He's looked like absolute trash in ever single fight post Ruiz.

The Helenius fight should've woken people up

 

Before the Ruiz 1 fight, AJ has a far better chance, and I would even favor him. Post Ruiz 1 AJ loses by knockout in the first half of the fight. It's a different boxer, and a different man.
Wilder wins by knockout.

 

Pre-Ruiz Joshua KO's any version of Wilder.

Today 50/50

edit: voted wrong choice

 

OP specified prime AJ. Prime AJ blows a hole through Wilder.

Current AJ looks as shaky as a matchstick castle

 

I think Wilder still KO's him, but his chances are much better.

 

Joshua by KO.
Why u think Wilder avoid this fight soo long and even rejected 100 millions contract from DAZN where he had 2 fights quaranted?

Prime Joshua (i guess ppl thinking that prime AJ is him before Ruiz loss) was nightmare style for Wilder.

Wilder need space to his right hand. If u took his space and make him go back he is poor. Joshua on agresive version going forward do damage to almost all opponent he fought. Probably he will be do same with Wilder who was badly shaken by Furys shoots.

Off course in this fight when puncher fight with mega puncher we must always remeber that all can happend and both got big chance to win fight.
But most realistic scenario for me is Joshua win.

Today its difficult to predict. Joshua style evolved and his idea of fighting give Wilder much more time I guess but... Wilder is old (he will be 38 when fight happend), he was nad beaten twice by Fury and for sure he lost a lot health (special on second fight when they dont want stop fight after his crying about fight 2) so we dont know how he will react himself when take big shoots. And Wilder is super inactive. Dude got 1 round in 2 years now? Even not full 3 minutes.

 

AJ by KO. Wilder has 1 elite punch and is just a windmilling amateur at everything else. Wilder only looks good relative to available competition. Any remotely talented heavyweight of the past 25 years smokes Wilder (Wlad, Vitali, Lennox, Tyson, Fury, Toney, Holyfield, Povetkin, RJJ...and he'd be likely lose against Tua, Ibeabuchi, Chagaev, Ruiz, and prolly another 6-12 HW contenders).

The watered down nature of HW makes Wilder look like a good fighter but he is awful. However, he has an elite straight right hand, great recovery, a great heart/will, and a decent chin. Had Wilder come up in the 90s or early 2000s people would look back on his KOs like they do/did Randall Bailey...a fun - but limited - heavy handed KO fighter. Instead this new era of fans like @Olu G. Rotimi and @ellerbe say Floyd is TBE, Wilder would beat Ali, Tank is GOAT LW, and Charlos are Lions...all of which is a literal joke.

 

Is that even a question? Wilder ducked a still-undefeated Joshua even though he was offered some 100 million USD. That was like what, three or four times as much as Wilder's total net worth up to that point?

 

I always said Joshua so why change? The only difference being I really couldn't care less anymore who wins that fight.

 

Joshua obviously. He beat Wlad. Wilder never beat Wlad.

 

I’m going with the Bronze