Shalom on prospective Parker opponents

"Also got bets right with Joyce vs Dubois and Groves vs Eubank."

We're talking quite a long time ago there.

Everyone makes wrong calls but I'd expect there to be some change in your thought process after a horrible wrong call is made (unless you are trolling).

After Fury schooled and smoked Whyte I'd expect those who picked Whyte to win would come away with a greater appreciation for Fury's abilities and by extension a greater appreciation for the abilities of men who provided Fury with far sterner tests than Whyte, such as Wilder and Wallin.

 

The performance is better, which matters more in my view than picking up some meaningless paper title in controversial circumstances against a lesser opponent.

 

You're talking about money, I'm talking about boxing.

 

"losing regardless of how well you did is not a good achievement"

The best single performance of Vitali's career was losing to Lewis, same with Briedis and Usyk. Martin and Parker won world titles in bizarre or controversial circumstances against inferior opponents, amazing.

 

You show a higher level going life and death with an elite fighter and losing a close/controversial decision than you do going life a death with a fringe contender and winning a close/controversial decision. But you're a time waster and a moron so you won't understand this.

 

Parker got a controversial MD in New Zealand against clear underdog Ruiz to win a vacant title yes.

Ruiz's best win prior to Parker was arguably his 10 round decision over Liakhovich in America, who one Hispanic judge had winning 4 rounds. Wilder had already rendered Liakhovich a convulsing mess on the canvas inside 2 minutes, 16 months prior.

Ruiz and Wilder had another mutual opponent in Alvaro Morales, who Wilder had stopped for the 2nd and final time of his 27 fight career (the only time Morales was stopped regularly) in 3 rounds. Ruiz went on to go the 6 round distance with Morales.

Pre-Stiverne, Wilder had also KO'd 13-0 Kelvin Price (who'd beaten Hamer, who'd beaten prime Johnson) in 3 rounds, Audley in Britain in 70 seconds, Firtha in 4 (who went the 10 round distance with Povetkin) and a cowardly Scott in 1 (who had gone 6 in a war with Chisora).

Wilder was first Ring ranked in 2013, more than a year before he beat 3rd ranked Stiverne for the title.

Ruiz was unranked by Ring when he fought Parker in December 2016 (who may have been just inside the top 10) and aside from a washed up Liakhovich, his best win was a washed up Johnson, who he beat 7-3 on the cards in America.

Wilder and Ruiz share another common opponent in Arreola, who Wilder schooled and retired in 8 and who Stiverne had schooled and KO'd across two fights a couple of years before that. 5 years and another three fights worth of wear post-Wilder, a 40 year old Arreola fought Ruiz coming off a 21 month layoff/retirement and went the 12 round distance, with Ruiz being dropped in the 2nd round and hurt multiple times.