Deontay Wilder is asked a question many here have argued endlessly.

The argument goes: "In the heavyweight division, the great punchers who were small are better than the big guys."

We've heard this one before right? It's essentially the argument classic fans use to justify fantasy matches between guys like Louis, and Klitschko.

So Wilder did an interview recently, where a fan asked him that question. Here is the questions and answer:

Fan: "Do you consider smaller and quicker heavyweights to be more difficult to face than the bigger, harder hitting but slower guys?"

Wilder: "I think the one's that's smaller but hit hard are the most difficult, but the bigger slow guy is a target."

 

Lol guys relax, I'm not Wilder.

Sorry if he didn't answer the question the way you hoped he would.

Unlike any of us, he clearly didn't have an agenda. He was just having fun taking questions from fans and those are his thoughts. The immediate defensive reaction of questioning his credibility is hilarious.

 

Yeah, I think that's pretty spot on. But notice how that has nothing to do with Wilders answer.

The fan compares small, quick heavyweights to large hard hitting ones. But Wilder flips it around, and compares small hard hitters to the bigger guys.

He says verbatim "I think the one's that's smaller but hit hard are the most difficult"

 

Again, he's not talking about small fast guys.

 

To me it speaks volumes.

Wilder said small heavy hitters are the toughest opponents. He doesn't have to fight David Haye to know that. It's likely a general pattern he's noticed in his years fighting and sparring many different kinds of boxers of varying degrees of skill, sizes, ability, and accomplishment.