Sit Down Earnie Shavers ... Deontay Wilder is the best puncher the division has ever produced

It's about creating opportunities and capitalizing.

It's not easy to stop everyone you fight. You have to create opportunities to punch and then land a KO shot.

That's what makes a great puncher. That's what makes Wilder the best.

You can point to all the great punchers at the top in heavyweight history, and they all had some no-name journeyman they couldn't stop --- EXCEPT WILDER.

You can't simply discount that. You can't. For every guy you can name as the best puncher ever, that guy has some nobody or some journeyman who others stopped but they either couldn't stop or, in many cases, the big puncher actually lost to them.

EXCEPT WILDER.

The only guy Wilder didn't stop in his career is the 6'8" 280 pound World Heavyweight Champ. And Wilder flattened him FOUR TIMES.

WHY didn't Wilder knock out the best fighter in all of boxing (who is also the largest 'WORLD/Lineal' heavyweight champion in boxing history who outweighed Wilder by 40 pounds every time they fought), YOU asked?

Well, with a different referee, he's got a KO over Fury in round 12 of fight one.

Fury himself admitted he was out on the way down. But to Fury's credit, and the referee who decided (unlike many) to keep counting and not just wave it off with Fury flat on his back, the fight went on.

Hell, we've seen fights stopped quicker. Mike Tyson stopped Ruddock with Ruddock on his feet with the referee Richard Steele not even looking to see if Razor was okay.

Fury got up. Fury has always gotten up. We'll see how their careers shake out, but maybe no single fighter drops Fury four times ever again. Maybe the draw is the closest Fury ever comes to losing.

We'll see. Their careers aren't over yet. It's going to be tough to keep Fury down, given we saw the concussive wave go through his body last time out, and he still got up.

But if the ONLY guy who Wilder doesn't stop is the WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION who outweighed Wilder by 40 pounds and Wilder still dropped him four times ... that does NOTHING to take away from Wilder's power.

In his prime, Shavers couldn't drop or knock out Bob Stallings, who Shavers outweighed, who had a losing record, who in turn DROPPED SHAVERS, and who BEAT EARNIE.

You mentioned Morrison. Tommy Morrison couldn't knock out Aaron Brown (who was stopped 20 times), Ken Lakusta (who was stopped 17 times), Steve Zouski, Lorenzo Canady, Ross Puritty (Ross was ROBBED), Sherman Griffin, Michael Bentt ... and none of them were ever remotely considered the best heavyweight on the planet.

And people have the freaking stones to say "Why didn't Wilder knock out the WORLD CHAMP FURY? (Like Fury's been knocked out 20 times!)

Well, if Richard Steele was the ref, Wilder would've probably gotten the stoppage over Fury in fight 1. But that's the way it goes. The fight was great as it was.

Doesn't affect Wilder's reputation as a puncher, regardless. We saw Fury on the deck four times against him. Fury told the world how hard Wilder punched. Fury told the world he was out on the way down in fight one.

If this is the guy Wilder does "not" get a KO against, outweighed by 40 pounds, who is the best on the planet, then so be it.

Wilder is still the best/hardest puncher until proven otherwise. Stopped everyone he fought except Fury, despite not having outweighed an opponent in nearly 10 years.

Compared to punchers like Foreman, who outweighed everyone he fought after 1971, Wilder giving up all that weight and still blasting everyone out but Fury is an amazing stat.

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