Is Deontay Wilder hall of fame worthy?

Yes together with Shavers.

 

No way.

 

His 10 defenses will get him based how infrequent it is in the HW division. His resume is weak but he’s statistically 4th in consecutive title defenses and only 1 of 9 total HW champions with 10+ title defenses.

 

NO, and never was.

He has 3 names on his resume Ortiz, who was 38 years old, which people now cries that Wilder is a shadow of his former self, which it's a b.c., as he was always been like this, but somehow forget to mention Ortiz was 38 when Wilder first fought him. Somehow that was Prime Ortiz, but the same energy does not goes for Wilder. He is a shadow of himself.

Fury and Parker.
And he was outbox in every single bout by this guys. He KO Ortiz, cause Ortiz was ancient and never really good to be fair. Parker and Fury embarrassed him.
Parker especially 12-0 him. Absolutely disgrace.

From my first day on this board i have told you that this guy is a fraud. A well protected fraud.

 

Top 5 for most heavyweight title defenses is pretty good.

If we're talking solely about big wins, I'd say Vitali's haven't aged well and he's HOF.

Also, I'd say some of Wilder's wins seem unimpressive only because he demolished his opponents so completely they became jokes (and probably lost most of their ambition). Guys like Helenius, Arreola, Washington, and Breazeale look like bums in large part because Wilder walked through them like wet tissue paper.

 

No.

His best wins were over an old, massively overrated fighter in Ortiz - at best a fringe top ten fighter, with a very thin resume at that.
Far from being avoided, Ortiz just didn't do what was necessary to build a serious resume - the avoided fighter is a myth, and always has been.

On top of that... Having been a belt holder for so long and not having a much better resume shows a total lack of ambition - with a belt, everyone is desperate to fight you and in Wilder's case this included genuine top 5 level fighters like Joshua, Whyte, Povetkin... Not a single one of these features on Wilder's resume because Wilder had no interest in taking risks.

 

Yes, Johnny Nelson went into the hall of fame so based on Deontay Wilder's current resume with 10 world title defences Wilder deserves to be in the HOF too. Anybody who says Wilder doesn't deserve to be in the HOF is just a hater imho.

 

Or we just see that he wasn’t very good and never beat anyone of note.

 

Exactly...

Put that belt onto Joshua, Whyte, Povetkin, Parker and give them the same opponents and there's a very good chance all of them come out the other side with the same streak.

 

Wilder’s top 10 opponents beaten: Stiverne 1, Molina, Duhaupas, Szpilka, Arreola, Washington, Ortiz 1, Breazeale, Ortiz 2, Helenius

Vitali’s top 10 opponents beaten: Hide, Bean, Donald, Sanders, Peter, Gomez, Arreola, Kevin, Adamek, Chisora

 

Based on resume. No.
Based on Championship wins. Maybe.
It is The Hall of Fame not The Hall of GOATs.
He'll probably get in down the road

 

Wilder will get in based on:

1. 10 consecutive heavyweight title defences (2nd longest single reign since 1985 behind Wlad), best win being top 5 ranked, 30-0, 93% stoppage ratio Ortiz

2. KO record (highest KO % among heavyweight champions, lots of spectacular KO's, perhaps the most devastating right hand puncher ever)

3. Historic trilogy with lineal champion Fury (if Fury beats Usyk for the undisputed championship and retires unbeaten then Wilder's case is strengthened)

4. Most significant American heavyweight this century thus far (if Anderson and Torrez have less success then Wilder's case is strengthened), broke the 7.5 year American heavyweight title drought

 

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