Both Wilder got chinned off earlier because Fury pretended to be obese to get that WBC strap so he could gift it to Oleksandr his blood brother in Christ. meanwhile AJ kept getting chinned at every opportunity.
The usual post match hysteria is taking place. The answer is Wilder and it's not even remotely close lmao.
Wilder and it’s not even close. The guy had what, almost fifty fights and he only faced opponents with a pulse in the last few years and they all beat him decisively. Some of the people he fought weren’t even boxing full time. He ducked Joshua and his trainer literally said “Deontay is not ready to face Klitschko yet” when Wlad offered him a shot. Wilder is the most protected fighter in HW history.
I would still say Wilder was more protected because he really did not take a single modicum of risk until Luis Ortiz and Tyson Fury in 2018 which was 3 years after he won the WBC belt, and even then they were very calculated risks with Ortiz being ancient and Fury only about 18 months removed from being morbidly obese However don't get me wrong, AJ has been very protected as well, he was very content to just stay fighting his mandatories and have Hearn market them as killers. Povetkin was his WBA mandatory, Pulev was his IBF, Usyk was his WBO etc. I'm not going to credit fighters for facing their mandatories, that is the BARE minimum expectation. When he had the opportunity to have a voluntary defence, he chose morbidly obese Jarrell Miller... Wilder was more protected but I do not buy the Eddie Hearn lie that "AJ isn't scared to face anyone anywhere", he loves money as much as the rest of them do.
Seriously? Wilder was 10 years deep into his pro career, 39-0 and on his 7th title defence when he faced his first elite level opponent.
Seriously! Joshua may have been overrated by some, but at least he beat some decent fighters - and didn't taste canvas against tomato cans like Wilder did.
Wilder. A common criticism of AJ's resume I see is it's a who's who of old guys that were past prime. Meanwhile, Wilder's resume is a who's who of who. In short, I guess you can boil it down like this: what's better, the guy who beat a bunch of has beens or the guy who beat a bunch of wannabes?
You only have to look at their resume's to see the answer. Wilder was a manufactured, cherry picking, over protected hype job. Joshua was over hyped too but far less so than Wilder he at least took risks. People said he was ducking Wlad he fought Wlad, they said he'd avoid Parker, he fought Parker, they said he'd avoid Usyk, he fought Usyk and so on. People even said he was ducking Ortiz, then offered more than he had made in his entire career for one fight and Ortiz ducked him. Yes later on Joshua was then protected. He was still the cash cow and business decision took priority over legacy. But there was a time when Joshua was fearless and thought himself truly unbeatable and he fought like it, but money and fame turned him into a businessman rather than a boxer and so we saw him change as a fighter. But he was never the fraud Wilder was.
Wilder avoided Whyte when he was mandatory and fought complete bums. Whyte would have been Wilder's toughest opponent at that stage, someone that AJ had already beaten. Wilder had a lovely a lucky escape with Povetkin.