Prime Wilder vs Prime Joshua (2018-2019)

I went with wilder by KO. Joshua isn’t as good of a boxer as Fury and nor does he have his chin or the height and reach over Deontay.

 

As much as people want to claim Wilder is untalented and unskilled (partially warranted). He could have certainly clipped Joshua in a fight.

In hindsight he has to regret not taking that fight. Beating AJ would have done wonders for his career and legacy.

 

When was it on the table ?

 

The fight was 1st proposed when both fighters were signed w/ Showtime. when Joshua's contract expired, he chose to not re-sign w/ Showtime & signed w/ fledgling DAZN instead, resulting in the Wilder fight being shelved. later, Wilder was offered a contract w/ DAZN that would've culminated w/ a Joshua fight, but he turned it down in favor of the Fury trilogy instead.

 

Yeah, Wilder viewed the Fury fight as cherry pick due to his inactivity, the irony being AJ would have been a much better stylistic matchup for him.

 

Wilder but today Joshua SHOULD take it. I'm not as confident as I was before the loss to Dubois though.

 

AJ is simply the better boxer and Wilder is not hard to hit. I've always thought AJ starches him.

 

That's THE FIGHT that should have happened during the post Klitschko generation.

 

For a moment in time around 2018-2019 Wilder and AJ stood above the rest there was no sight of Fury… I didn’t care too much about Usyk’s move being discussed (from memory) but we did hear whispers of Wilder going to 200lbs to steal the undisputed spot there for a historic bout (seriously do your remember?) time has moved against both unkindly… Parker now is the only guy taken serious from that era left Fury is a clown who almost lost to an MMA fighter… AJ was dribbled like a basketball against Ruiz and embarrassed himself against Usyk x 2 - AJ was “The Man” (though the Klitschko fight was the
key symptom it wasn’t true) and Wilder I feel bad for Wilder… seeing him slaughtered by Zhang was hard to watch and expected by the time it happened. He was always a “debatable fraud” we all pretty much (that I noticed) thought Wilder was ducking and there was no sign of a guy to dethrone AJ. I’m sentimental for that period, good fun honestly seeing things unfold, the memes about Wildwr made me love boxing and keeping up with the HW scene… seeing Fury’s comeback and very temporary rise to glory, Fury had people actually casually talking boxing a buddy of mine I walked in on watching it and got to see Fury rise from the grave after Wilder legitimised himself with a huge right in an epic fight and trilogy that would take everything he had.

 

Wilder in 5

 

Whoever lands the 1st big right wins.

 

I always viewed it as a 50/50 fight. I favored AJ slightly up until 2019, then after he got destroyed by Ruiz I favored Wilder, after Wilder got destroyed by Fury I got back to favoring AJ. Between 2022 and 2023 I was again slightly favoring Wilder, but after Day of Reckoning I was 100% sure AJ takes it.

 

Two of the most underrated on this forum.

Wilder should’ve been able to knock Joshua out. Joshua tended to get clipped in his fights, but win anyway. Wilder landed bombs on Fury and Ortiz. He’d probably do the same to Joshua and end it.

 

It is one of those fights where whomever lands first likely wins by KO, but I believe that before the Fury fights destroyed him, a fresh, frisky, and sharp Wilder would have landed first and stopped Joshua. He could match the height and reach, had enough footwork to move around cautiously and set up that one blazing-fast right, and when it landed, Joshua's legs would have gone to JELLO. Unlike a shot and old Klitschko, Wilder would have finished him even if Joshua had the ability to get up. No matter how long it went, short or long, the fans would be at the edge of their seats, because either man was capable of scoring a KO or knockdown at any time. It would have been intriguing to watch it play out had it happened.