I don't think Wilder is overrated at all. He knocked out every man he faced until he faced a true great. That deserves the respect which he gets, which is that of one of the top players in his division. He is undoubtedly that. I don't think anybody would try argue he is even at all technically sound, but there are more ways to do it in this sport than that and he always found a way to land that one weapon he does have, until somebody was good enough (at the second attempt) not to get statically in front of it for the duration of a fight. So credit where it is due.
I said Brook was ggg's most skilled opponent that he actually defeated. By all means tell me which opponent was more skilled than brook?
Apparently people have amnesia. I clearly remember people using the "everyone is scared of him" excuse for his thin resume. I used some of the same talking points about how boxers like Tyson and Duran had no trouble making fights happen. The idea wilder was massively overrated and hyped is nonsense and not based on actual reality. Never happened.
Golovkin was more overrated, no one ever overrated Wilder, he was always considered an overachiever given his assets and liabilities. Mostly everyone knew the train was gonna end eventually, and it di. Golovkin on the other hand, on a thread on this very board was touted as having the ability to beat, by stoppage, every single top level MW in history. So who was more overrated?
GGG is still good enough to be rated in the top 3 at 160 while Wilder is not, GGG has never been dominated the way Wilder was by Fury.
Im talking in total . if wilder beats fury and beats joshua afterwards. Thats still speculation tho .
By the way ggg' title defenses are actually around 15 a few of those were interim title defenses which i don't count Wilder has 10 title defenses
Exactly. Where are all the threads of wilder fanboys claiming he'd knock out Ali, Lewis, Vitali, Tyson, etc? Where are the 30 page essays of people claiming Wilder's resume is criminally underrated? It wouldn't take me more than 5 minutes to find dozens of threads on this forum (and several others) of people claiming Golovkin's resume is hall of fame worthy and that he'd knock out several all time greats at 160.
Who f'n cares what you count. All you do is copy what other posters say anyway. Point is, Wlder's going to be lucky to not only win a belt, but defend it successfully like he has. It's much too late for DW to learn how to box.
If you want to use that logic then it's fair to say GGG arguably lost to every high level fighter he ever faced
Never said he will learn to box . this is all speculation on his power thats all . i still got fury beating him.. However anything can happen in the heavyweight division