Deontay's carefully crafted record

Defo cherry picked his way to riches. Last opponent by far his toughest but he only fought him because he looked washed up vs Scuba Scott.

 

Not a fan at all. I see what you mean, but he has improved and he is the most dangerous heavy out there at this time. His team have cherry picked, but now i think he has a 50/50 chance against the best heavy at the moment, and his team know it..
Tall,long,fast,engine and probably hits as hard as any heavy. He has been protected, but you could say his team has done a good job for him. Having said that, i hope AJ starches him.

 

The only guy Joshua has fought who was younger than him was in Joshua's last fight.

Skelton - 47 years old
Wlad - 41 years old
Sprott - 39 years old
Avila - 39 years old
Gavern - 39 years old
Legg - 38 years old
Butlin - 37 years old
Takam - 36 years old
Airich - 36 years old
Kevin Johnson - 35 years old
Bakhtov - 35 years old
Molina -34 years old
Zumbano - 34 years old

 

The vast majority of fighters with proper promoters/backing cherry pick. It's just part of the game, unfortunately.

 

When I see Wilder and Lennox together, I cannot help but think Lennox might have a 2nd or 3rd round knockout over Deontay. To me Deontay could not take Lennox right hand. And I don't think he lands his much on Lennox..

 

Lennox is the best HW ever imo

 

And everybody was shitting on vittles for taking the Briggs fight when he was what? 36?

 

This is the reason I have no issue with Joshua continuing to fight contenders, and leaving Wilder to finish cleaning out the bums, old men, pasty chefs, cabbies, janitors etc.

 

It's not a horrible resume considering how **** the division is and what his resume used to be like, but he still lacks that real step-up opponent and it doesn't matter if you KO 20 or 30 of these C types, at the end of the day without a dangerous opponent on your resume you can only pad it so much.

Of course unluckily for him, there's only like 3 guys in the division that matter. Ortiz WOULD have been one had he faced Ortiz when he was looking dangerous and not on the way down. Got unlucky with Povetkin and it seems like he's trying with AJ so there's that, hopefully it comes to fruition.

 

****ing laughable that he boxed Skelton at 47. Hearn and Joshua have no shame. Ortiz is a world class fighter and people mocked his age. Skelton was a 47 year old D-grade ex-jailbird domestic level contender who was a kick boxer primarily. Disgusting.

 

This. No wealthy and well connected promoter would invest tons of money in a young prospect and then throw them to the wolves. Any fighter regardless of how talented they are will pick up some losses early in their career unless they fight cherrypicked opponents.

I can think of tons of fighters that were ruined because they were put up against elite competition too fast. Hearn has matched Joshua very carefully just like Wilder was matched very carefully earlier in his career.

 

Yeah it is pretty **** but he is trying to fight Joshua so that is a good start