Deontay Wilder's windmill combinations, why is it so successful?

He's successful with it because he knows when to throw it.

 

Clear slip, masterful performance by Tony Weeks!
Fact.

 

Basically, but I love to see a heavyweight with that type of killer instinct.

It's that first shot.

It has so much damn power that his opponent can't do anything but cover up.

 

because he fights bums

no wonder his KO streak ended as soon as he stepped up

 

Two reasons: timing (as noted above, knowing when to pounce, always - so far - when he has an opponent on the defensive after the first shot) and his hand speed is exceptional, which is something few have yet caught onto.

 

I like Wilder a lot.

I think the kid has a great story too.

I don't know why people are dismissing this guy. I get it, his competition up until Stiverne has been sub par, but he just put it on a world class fighter in a dominating performance.

And on top of that, the kid tries to KNOCK every opponent out.

 

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It's the internet: people get very invested in their opinions, it's their cred on the line. They decide a guy is not good (or not good enough) and they lose all cred when he proves otherwise.

So their only recourse is to ignore the facts and scream even louder about whatever opinion they had invested in, in hopes that next fight or the one after that, or the one after that, it finally comes true.

They can't backtrack because their own investement in their internet cred means more than any enjoyment they might get out of a fighter.

If forums like this had been around in Thomas Hearns' heyday, a lot of people would never appreciate him because they'd be hung up on the idea that he had a glass jaw or wasn't sturdy or whatever ... when whatever flaws he had just made him more exciting.

 

You're absolutely right. I think everyone can be guilty of this at times. Sometimes, you just have to learn to let it go.

 

Soon as he stepped up the ko's stopped shocker !!!!

 

:deal

 

If you're claiming that as a knockdown in round 2, i'm claiming it was after the bell and in my mind the ref DQ'd wilder and Stiverne is still the WBC heavyweight champ.

 

He stepped up against Stiverne and wasn't KOed. A whole bunch of people posting here predicted that Wilder would be KOed vs Stiverne. However, eventually he is going to be KOed--that's just the nature of the heavyweight division.

 

For the same reason it was successful for Harry "The Windmill" Greb: you can avoid the first punch, and maybe the second, but the 3rd and 4th are gonna hit you.