Its not an excuse when it was true. Anyone with half a brain can see the difference in the two Wilder fights and figure out that he was a better-restored fighter in the second. But what. He is a great fighter, and is going to climb a lot higher yet, so if you want to cling to knockdowns from when he was 22 and 24, you go right ahead.
Whatever, dude, that's all. You are watching a guy who will be remembered as an ATG. You can understand what you are seeing now or in the rear-view mirror. I give a ****.
He doesn't need to make excuses you dim bulb. I have already told you, if you want to hold onto the events of nine years ago, go right ahead. I don't care, and neither does anyone else. **** off.
I think you know there’s a huge difference, Wlad fought anyone and everyone except his brother while Wilder didn’t face a ‘live’ opponent until he fought Fury. You asked for evidence that Wilder was a cherry picking ducker and I pointed out that he had form for ducking the best which included Wlad. You can add Whyte to that list as well, WBC Nō1 contender for Deontays Title for almost 3 years but Wilder adamantly refused to fight him!
Honestly, I don't think he ducked Wlad or anyone else for that matter. But the evidence is quite clear that he ducked everyone collectively. Becomes a world champion and then fights Molina, Duhaupas, Szpilka, Arreola, Washington and Stiverne in a row. "He's a baby winning a title. Give him a couple of fights, maybe bring something back to Alabama". They fought in Alabama four more times ffs. It was just an all-American circlejerk while pretending to be a world champion. And yes, the Povetkin fight fell through but that doesn't excuse everything.
Finkel protected him from Wladimir. It’s funny that years ago Wilder was complaining about america not caring about him and why he wasn’t a superstar, but if he fought Wladimir he would have been a star even if he lost but he and his team went the easy route but american boxing fans know better and america still doesn’t care about him. He went the villain route and it ended up hurting him more.
Given Wilder’s aggressive approach to calling himself the baddest man on the planet, and his claim to want to unify (while Joshua was the champion), you have to admit that he didn’t carry that same energy when Wlad was around. Is it a duck? No, technically not. However, it does give off the impression that Wilder and his team wanted no part in that potential fight.
Because Wilder didn’t want anything to do with Wlad as he knew Wlad would destroy him in a humiliating fashion! What’s Wlad meant to do when Wilder won’t go near anyone ranked inside the top 20 (normally top 200) or younger than 40 years old! See here for confirmation: DEONTAY WILDER PROFESSIONAL FIGHT RECORD Fight Nō - Opponent - Rank at Time of Fight - Joshua comparison 1 - Ethan Cox - Unranked 2 - Shannon Gray - Unranked 3 - Richard Green - Unranked 4 - Joseph Rabotte - 393rd 5 - Charles Brown - Unranked 6 - Kelsey Arnold - Unranked 7 - Travis Allen - Unranked 8 - Jerry Vaughn - Unranked 9 - Ty Cobb - 399th 10 - Alvaro Morales - Unranked 11 - Dustin Nichols - Unranked 12 - Shannon Caudle - Unranked 13 - Harold Sconiers - Unranked 14 - Dan Seehan - Unranked 15 - Deandrey Abron - Unranked 16 - Reggie Penna - Unranked - AJ wins IBF World Title 17 - Damon Reed - 304th 18 - D Alexander - Unranked 19 - Daniel Cota - 489th - AJ Unifies IBF, WBA & IBO World Titles 20 - David Long - Unranked 21 - Marlon Hayes - 368th - AJ adds WBO to WBA, IBF & IBO World Titles 22 - Jesse Oltmanns - 492nd 23 - Owen Beck - Unranked 24 - Kertson Manswell - 310th 25 - Damon McCreary - 357th 26 - Kevin Price - Unranked 27 - Matthew Greer - 325th 28 - Audley Harrison - 136th 29 - Siarhei Liakhovich - 43rd 30 - Nicolas Firtha - 121st 31 - Malik Scott - 86th 32 - Jason Gavern - 194th 33 - Bermaine Stiverne - 5th - Wins WBC World Title 34 - Eric Molina - 37th 35 - Johan Duhaupas - 34th 36 - Artur Szpilka - 24th 37 - Chris Arreola - 43rd 38 - Gerald Washington - 41st 39 - Bermaine Stiverne - Unranked 40 - Luis Ortiz - 4th 41 - Tyson Fury - 4th - Draw 42 - Domonic Breazeale - 13th 43 - Luis Ortiz - 9th 44 - Tyson Fury - 1st - Lost by Knock Out losing WBC World Title
You are claiming Wlad, as unified champion, not fighting Wilder was wilders fault. For this to be true you would need evidence that Wlad made an offer to Wilder. The champion chooses who they make offers to not the other way around
The very best WK smashes any Wilder inside of 4 rounds with Wilder being rocked by every jab and cuffing punch along the way, until WK delivers the Coup de Gras with likely a jab, RH, L hook combo closing out the show. Wilders team did all the ducking while Wilder just followed the program with zero objection.
