John L. Sullivan vs Deontay Wilder.

Impossible to say.

Sullivan might have looked like Tom Sharkey, or he might have looked like a bigger version of Vasilly Lomachenko.

We just don't know.

 

Really no idea. Maybe Sullivan , who once fought for 70 rounds, might take it......If Wilder doesn't kill him early.

 

Sullivan shatters the glassware

 

The only things that we know about Sullivan, are roughly how big he was, that he fought out of a crouch, and that his key strengths were power, hand speed, and finishing ability.

Obviously there is room to interpret him as being somebody who could beat Wilder, and there is room to interpret him as being somebody who would not.

 

He also developed an impressive set of whiskers

 

Nobody can say much

Wilder should win ... He's a century ahead in progression ... Supposedly

 

I believe Wilder would win, just a large progression of boxing in general and conditioning over 100 years. Probably a knockout, early. I don't know if Sullivan would outgrit Wilder, I mean 75 rounds? Nothing to scoff at. But Wilder standing at 6'7" against 5'10" Sullivan is interesting, especially since they were built so differently as well.

But, yeah. Wilder via earlier KO. And Sullivan would HATE it cause of the fact that a Black Man would probably knocking him out would really rile him up. Which makes me laugh. haha.

 

It's the comedy sketch that writes itself:

5'10" John L. Sullivan walks into a bar: "I can lick any sonafabitch in the house!"
6'7" Deontay Wilder stands up

 

I'm going to really go out on a limb and say he certainly isn't going to look like a bigger version of Lomachenko.

 

One contemporary writer described him as being "as clever as any man."

I am inviting you to at least consider that there might have been a bit of method in his madness.

 

Totally willing to accept that much but that's well short of what i quoted of course.

 

Sullivan.
Wilder has the worst skillset of any HWC that I can remember. Just terrible. I'm betting Sullivans toughness and own power take the day.

 

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Heavyweights being smaller than other Heavyweights doesn't have the effect on my opinions that it seems to have on many opinions here...and I'm a pretty big guy, myself. (I'm not implying that those opinions are right or wrong, just different takes on the same facts.) All we know about Sullivan are written reports from contemporaries and the part of his record that still exists today. In fairness to Deontay, he's still active and his legacy is not yet set in stone. At present, comparing apples to apples, Sullivan's record, and what was written about him in his time, compared to the same with Wilder, I'd have to go with Sullivan right now.