I think he's got a very average resume, but not quite as bad as a lot of people say. Stiverne was a genuine top ten fighter when Wilder fought him the first time, and a favourite to win if I remember correctly. Duhaupas was an unknown but later went on to have a few decent wins and prove he wasn't quite as terrible as people thought. Szpilka was ok, but chinny, as Jennings and Mike Mollo proved, but notched up a few ok wins in his career (Wach, Adamek). Washington was also ok, around the level of Breazeale. Ortiz is a bit of an unknown. He's clearly no scrub but there are questions over just how good he was when he fought Wilder. Arreola was a completely worthless defence, and so was the Stiverne rematch. Molina as well. Those are genuine bottom scraper fights. Scott, the fight to set him up with the title shot, was of course a blatant dive, and no more needs to be said of that. In comparison with the rest of the division I'd put it on a similar level to Joseph Parker's. Both have a couple of solid wins between them, and a hell of a lot of filler.
Well, from one point you are correct, opinions in internet are more like entertainment value. From another point, most interesting fights are when fighters are with similar resumes and records, close in ranking and AGE. From this point it looks different and the same Dorticos fights for me were more interesting. Low options easily to predict outcome. Both of them from age looked equal, approx 39-40? Ortiz ofc looked more athletic but he is slow boxer. Not bad but he is slow! If compare matches Dorticos vs Gassiev, Dorticos vs Tabiti and Dorticos vs Briedis these looked damn close to 50/50 fights. Opinions in internet are maybe not interesting but I do know that for him these were more dangerous fights. Not like some 27-30-31 y.o guys vs 38 and > 38 y.o fighters. If the boxer does have in the ring opponent with not worse resume and record + he is similar to his age or younger. It is risk. Mileage too matters. Ppl gladly apprecitate opinion that 1980 th Holmes wasn't 1988 th Holmes. With other boxers in internet forums this happens rarerly. then the same kind of wins vs 38-41 y.o boxers are seen like if they were 30? y.o. Rankings yes, if boxer past prime still is ranked highly, then boxer by defeating him might climb up in ranking of course. I too do not care much will someoene here agree but if evalue risk level, Dorticos resume is damn good and cool.
DEONTAY WILDER PROFESSIONAL FIGHT RECORD Fight Nō - Opponent - Rank at Time of Fight 1 - Ethan Cox - Unranked 2 - Shannon Gray - Unranked 3 - Richard Green - Unranked 4 - Joseph Rabotte - 393rd 5 - Charles Brown - Unranked 6 - Kelsey Arnold - Unranked 7 - Travis Allen - Unranked 8 - Jerry Vaughn - Unranked 9 - Ty Cobb - 399th 10 - Alvaro Morales - Unranked 11 - Dustin Nichols - Unranked 12 - Shannon Caudle - Unranked 13 - Harold Sconiers - Unranked 14 - Dan Seehan - Unranked 15 - Deandrey Abron - Unranked 16 - Reggie Penna - Unranked 17 - Damon Reed - 304th 18 - D Alexander - Unranked 19 - Daniel Cota - 489th 20 - David Long - Unranked 21 - Marlon Hayes - 368th 22 - Jesse Oltmanns - 492nd 23 - Owen Beck - Unranked 24 - Kertson Manswell - 310th 25 - Damon McCreary - 357th 26 - Kevin Price - Unranked 27 - Matthew Greer - 325th 28 - Audley Harrison - 136th 29 - Siarhei Liakhovich - 43rd 30 - Nicolas Firtha - 121st 31 - Malik Scott - 86th 32 - Jason Gavern - 194th 33 - Bermaine Stiverne - 5th - Wins WBC World Title 34 - Eric Molina - 37th 35 - Johan Duhaupas - 34th 36 - Artur Szpilka - 24th 37 - Chris Arreola - 43rd 38 - Gerald Washington - 41st 39 - Bermaine Stiverne - Unranked 40 - Luis Ortiz - 4th 41 - Tyson Fury - 4th - Draw 42 - Domonic Breazeale - 4th 43 - Luis Ortiz - 9th 44 - Tyson Fury - 1st - Lost by Knock Out losing WBC World Title 45 - Tyson Fury - WBC Heavyweight Champion - Scheduled
I'm not a Wilder hater, but come on, his successful defenses are not as good as Joshua's. Povetkin, Whyte, Pulev, Klitschko, Parker, Ruiz as Joshua's best wins vs Ortiz, Stiverne, Breazeale, Arreola, Szpilka as Wilder's best wins? There is a good chance all names on Wilder's best wins lose to every name on Joshua's best wins.
All AJs win over Wlad, Povetkin, Whyte, Parker, Ruiz and Pulev are more impressive opponents than anyone Wilder has ever beaten. There's a massive difference in terms of quality of opponents beaten and 5he number of quality of opponents beten between AJs resume and Wilders. AJ has now beat 5 of the current Ring Magazine top 10. That's the same as Fury(1),Wilder (1), Povetkin (1) and Whyte (2) combined.
That’s a good point, pick your winner? Klitschko v Ortiz Whyte v Stiverne Parker v Breazeale Povetkin v Arreola Pulev v Szpilka Takam v Washington Ruiz v Duaphas
Wlad one sided win Whyte one sided win Parker one sided win Povetkin one sided win Pulev one sided win Takam one sided win Ruiz one sided win All mismatches.
This old chestnut on the internet is just some hateful propaganda. Come on, which governing body ranks in the 400's??? Use your brains please. If you use the Ring Magazine who is independent of the 4 main governing bodies, Wilder fought around 6/7 top 10's If you use WBC rankings, he defended against 10x top 15 fighters If you use some propaganda on the internet you get the above. I agree that Joshua's defences are generally against a better calibre but both have defended against top 15 guys, AJ are slightly better to me.
But he has the strongest punch in boxing history guys Liston, Foreman, Shavers, Tyson can't even generate that power
Nope! Carefully compiled by a noted boxing historian and record keeper. I know it hurts but the truth often does!
