Wilder obviously has the power to maybe drop Terrel once or twice but lacks the skill, sharpness, and ring IQ to apply consistent enough pressure to break him down. Terrel is too durable and smart to be taken out with 1 hit and Wilder's lack of combination punching, body work, and jabbing would be his own undoing. Terrel clinches, wrestles, rabbit punches, hides behind a high guard, and does everything in his power to stall with his spoiling tactics until Wilder is completely frustrated and exhausted. However, Terrel's lack of offense means he wouldn't be able to do enough to convince the judges even if he did start to actually open up and throw some jabs and 1-2's in the later rounds. Wilder would do enough in rounds 1-7 to take a decision in an incredibly ugly fight. Or maybe it ends in a draw. If Wilder simply jabbed more and threw combinations on the outside rather than simply waiting all day for the perfect shot he could take a much more convincing decision or possibly even stops Terrel late.
Awful style matchup for Terrell. The myth about Wilder's jab needs to stop. According to CompuBox, Wilder is the third-most accurate jabber in the game right now - behind only Golovkin and Joshua. And Wilder hasn't outweighed an opponent in nine years. He's been fighting 250 pounders (or greater) for a decade. The last guy who Wilder outweighed lasted about 30 seconds. He'd outweigh Terrell. And Ernie didn't move his head at all. His defense was just putting his gloves over his face. And he had about a 35% KO percentage. There would be nothing coming back Wilder needed to concern himself with. With the height advantage, reach advantage, weight advantage, a handspeed advantage, a better defense and a ridiculous power advantage, there is nothing Terrell does better. It's a total wipeout for Wilder.
I'm not the biggest Wilder fan but Terrell seems to me the wrong kind of guy to pitch against Wilder. I think Deontay bombs him out sooner or later.
Probably terrel, he had a vicious jab and good outside movement, if he boxed outside and doesn't get caught by Wilder's right hand, he might wins by UD.
Compu box doesn't tell you the caliber of opponents he used his jab against. He is a terrible jabber, Fury made him look silly when he tried to use it. If Wilder landed cleanly on Terrell of course he probably takes him out. But the problem would be trying to keep Terrell from tieing him up early, leaning on him, turning the fight into a hug fest, slowly but surely wearing the spindly legs of Wilder down. Terrell wasn't great in any area of boxing, but he was well schooled, he knew how to fight. He'd see that telegraphed right hand of Wilder from a mile away, he blocks it, grabs his arm holds on until the ref breaks them. Wash and repeat. Their a reason Terrell had the nickname" The Octopus" His goal would be to take Wilder into deep water. In a 12 rd fight, Wilder could win on points that's if he doesn't wear that heavy costume that took his legs by the 5th rd in his fight with Fury. But "IF" he wears that " Heavy Costume " that had him looking like a new born giraffe, and huffing and puffing early, Terrell wears him down with stalling tactics, frustrates him, goes on to win a decision. After the fight Wilder would claim his trainer didn't give him the proper instructions, his cut man put a sleeping pill in his water, the camera flash temporarily blinded him from the photographer's in the audience. The referee let Terrell hold to much. Etc etc etc, Yada, Yada Yada.
The fighter that Terrell fought who was the most like Wilder would probably be Jeff Merritt. The "octopus" didn't do too well in that one and it's doubtful that he is going to tie Wilder up at all. Merritt was no Wilder, but he was taller than average for his era and a hard hitter. Wilder doesn't participate in inside fighting, he moves backward, forward, and laterally quick and he covers a lot of ground. If Terrell tried to tie him up, Wilder has shown himself to be strong and able to toss much bigger and stronger people than Terrell. A lot of people on this board hate Wilder, but in reality, he is a huge talent and his biggest "vulnerability" is probably sharing an era with Tyson Fury. If they fight again, Wilder has the speed, power that he carries the entire fight, and mobility to win that one. Wilder would beat Terrell with no problem. Terrell has nothing to bother Wilder and Wilder has all of the advantages in speed, power, and mobility.
Bollocks, Wilder gets knocked from pillar to post and has the worst defence ever when under attack, he reacts the exact same was as he did when 19 yr old Hrgovic made him look worse than an amateur in sparring, Wilder hit him with that 'hardest punch of all time, straight right on the chin, Hrgovic laughed then manhandled Wilder while beating his breaks in some more. Wilder is an awful pugilist and his matchmaking has been rediculously handpicked other than Ortiz
You know what, he did have a very telling moment in the first Ortiz fight when they were tied up and Wilder just effortlessly threw the 241 pound Ortiz to the ground with 1 arm. He's a lot stronger than people think. Terrel was a very skilled grappler but he would not have an easy time with Wilder at all if he tried to clinch excessively. Fury had success partly because he was enormous and would use a hit and then hold strategy on the front foot, grabbing Wilder around the head with head locks and putting his massive weight on him, which isn't how Terrel fought at all.
At the end of their first fight, with Fury jabbing from beginning to end, Fury ended up landing SIX more jabs than Wilder - over 12 rounds. SIX jabs. There's a difference between throwing a jab and landing one. Wilder lands. Like I said, the stories that Wilder is a windmiller with no jab need to stop. The Fury rematch is mute because Wilder had surgery on his left bicep just after the fight. Clearly, not having his left jab messed up his ability to land the right. Because anyone who actually watches Wilder knows his right hand KO shot is set up with the left. And, Fury weighs about 60 pounds more than Terrell and is much taller as well, and doesn't used consider putting two gloves over his face and standing still a defense, like Terrell did. So, none of your points are taken. (LOL) Ernie Terrell would be a sitting duck.
