Oh please. Joe Frazier and Ali became peers the moment Frazier beat Buster Mathis and started defending "a title." It didn't matter that Frazier only managed 32 wins in his whole career and Ali had nearly double that. Once you start defending a heavyweight title, you're peers with the other heavyweight champs around you. The "counting fights" portion of their careers is over. Joshua may not fight 20 more times for the remainder of his career, let alone win 20 more. He may never reach 36 or 37 wins like Wilder. Joshua is the IBF champ. Wilder is the WBC champ. They're on a collision course. They're peers RIGHT NOW!
No ****. Just saying I see lots of Wilder fanboys trashing Joshua for his competition while not saying **** about Wilders. If Joshua makes easy BS mandatory title defenses a habit like Wilder then he'll get as much stick from me as Wilder does... But so far that hasn't been the case, and Joshuas been moved along fine.
Wilder vs Fury would be hilarious. Just think of the press conferences....Wlad is a robot but I'll give him a break as English is not his first language (or 2nd or 3rd) so he's not very good responding to Fury's whacko jabbering, but I think Wilder would seriously go nuts, ranting and raving. He'd lose it..might try to bite Fury like Tyson did to Lewis. Same for Wilder-Povetkin. Boring press conferences. Fury-Wilder must happen NOW.
It's sad that so many boxing fans still care more about trash talking leading up to fights than the fights themselves. atsch
Both Fury and Wilder are at the bottom of any list of HW "champs". Their skill at trash talking far exceeds their skill in the ring. I wouldn't pay ten cents to watch them fight but their press conferences might be enjoyable. If they weren't such **** boxers this wouldn't be an issue.
This fight will make or break the careers of both these heavyweights to be honest. Both will be tested on a level never before. I can bet my bottom dollar that this fight could actually be a trilogy.
I disagree - depending on how the fight goes, a modern day heavyweight equivalent of Hagler vs Hearns type war would be fantastic. Both guys are huge, aggressive, athletic and powerful - if they both try and destroy each other it could be an extremely exciting and potentially short fight which despite being a short war leaves even the loser looking like a very dangerous contender.
don't get me wrong, I would love any great match up of the top dudes such as Fury, Wladdy, Ortiz, Wilder and AJ,,, however, as a pure fan of the sport, its the long range bombing with power of AJ vs Wilder that most intrigues me,, that doesn't mean it will be the best fight of all the combo's with the two most skilled elite dudes, just from a styles point of view I love it on paper :deal but I agree with the other poster saying the best press conferences would be Fury vs Wilder :good
hopefully not for too many years, plus someone needs to fight Ortiz before he is in a wheel chair as that guy is a monster and could be the real dark horse for all we know.
--Knocked out badly by an unknown LHW in amatuers --ALSO, OUTBOXED badly by a Polish Sausage in the amatuers --Squeaked by with a bronze medal somehow in the Olympics --Put down by morbidly obese Dustin "Big Worm" Nichols with a "Check-Jab" --Put down heavily and almost out by career loser Harold "Hard Roc" Sconiers --Built much of his career by beating sad corpses like Harrison and Lyakhovich --Brought in personal friend Malik Scott to take an obvious dive --Did not fight the real champ for his "title" but a Don King manufactured Buffet champion --Knocked down by 2 Wlad jabs and OUT with one medium left hook in sparring --Destroyed and almost ktfo'd by Haye in sparring --Rocked heavily by a Firtha jab --Could not defeat a very ill Stiverne as convincingly as Demetrice King --Could not even knock a very ill Stiverne down like Rossy --Some of the most shameful opponents for his "title defenses" that the world has ever seen, showing his low self esteem --Rocked badly and almost out vs substitute teacher Molina ("Drummer Boy") --He did not perform as well agasint Molina as Arreola OR ASHANTI JORDAN, both of whom knocked him out in 1 --Eye busted up and made to look like a gargoyle by Duhaupas ("The Reptile"), a French pastry chef --Sold as a nice guy, but actually spends his time beating up hookers and mental patient Charlie Zelenoff, who are ironically his best opponents --Dispresects great fighters like Tyson and Klitschko --Now trying to claim that Fury's "courageous" win somehow makes him champion. --Avoiding Povetkin like the plague --Seems to be using a new tactic,probably to mask steroid use, of not allowing his pathetic opponents a full camp --Was considering Wawryck, knocked out in 3 by his mandatory, as an opponent --Offered a shot to Adamek, a shot to pieces 39 year old former LHW who is 1-2 in his last three, but only allowed him a 6 week camp. --Avoided Briggs and Bronco Billy Wright, shot fighters who carry AARP cards --Will fight an unemployed Soccer Hooligan named Szpilka? on 4 weeks notice, and will underpay him, overfeed and hooker him up --Wilder's team, the "Burger Squad", keeps removing and scrubbing the Internet of all of his shameful knockdowns and ktfo's; mostly while attempting a bad attempt at the "Ali Shuffle", which will now be called the "Burger Bungle". --Got punked out badly by unemployed, fur coat wearing soccer hooligan Spzilka at face off for their upcoming "title" fight -- Was being outclassed by undersized, unemployed, glorified bum, fur coat wearing, soccer hooligan Spzilka for 9 rounds -- Was clearly intimidated by Tyson Fury after landing a lucky punch against undersized, unemployed, glorified bum, fur coat wearing, soccer hooligan Spzilka -- When intimidated by Fury, had to resort to his pathetic catchphrase, causing embarrassment to, and for, everyone associated with the Wilder camp. -Now is again avoiding Povetkin like the plague and will likely be stripped of his title; but Uncle Al will give him a worthless,* manufactured PBC belt. -Tried to fight the CAN Martin in a title unification match, but the WBC refused to allow the fight, and that Wilder fight his mandatory; then team Bronze Burger attempted to get Povetkin to fight Martin, but he regused; just another pitiful attempt to duck Povetkin.* -Wilder skips leg day, resulting in pitiful 14" calves on a 6'7 man, which produce the funniest chicken dances and future ktfo's ever. -Ducked and ran from his mandatory Povetkin,again, and will now face the washed up burrito-boy Arreola, who was smashed by shot Vitali,lost clearly to a shop-worn light-heavyweight, Adamek, got ktfo'd by can Stiverne (who was outclassed easily by Wilder somehow), went life and death with sub-journeyman Kaufmann, who also ironically failed a drug test. -Will probably be made to do a dance by the aforementioned,washed up,burrito and Corona boy Arreola, and very well might get ktfo'd too. -Ducked fight with a clean Povetkin, ran back to Alabama, and still demanded $5million dollars, now will fight someone who trains on burritos and coronas