Which Wilder excuse would you like me to reserve for the next time porcelain chin is tossed around the ring? - His water by spiked by the cornerman - Entrance suit was too heavy - Broken arm/shoulder/hand/leg injury in training - Illegal hand wraps - Tampered gloves Also, did you forget that Wilder was dropped with a soft body shot in his last fight? Take my ban bet above if it's that unplausible...
Outside of the KO in 4 (which might have happened if Wilder engaged), I told you that Wilder was absolute trash... Just to set the record straight, Parker is not elite. Wilder's been trash his whole career, he's just been managed well against very poor opposition and his stock went up in losing to Fury. There never should have been a rematch when he lost 11 rounds to Fury in the first fight and should be thankful Povetkin didn't derail the hype train earlier in his career.
Poll still open... 20/20 hindsight is great. Hadn't expected Parker to beat him, even if he beat him, as we all know what usually happens. But the Wilder bubble has truly burst now.
I think a lot of us did after he lost to Joyce it looked like he was done, but that was simply down to Joyce being better than the Zhang loss showed and Joyce being a bad style match up for Parker. That and we, including me overrated Wilder which is kind of shocking as I always thought he was overrated to begin with, but even I was overrating him. We really didn't know how good Parker was and how bad Wilder was.
Parker claims his punching power has hugely improved under his new Strength coach. I truly hope he is at the beginning of a big winning run