Joshua - Trying to fight Klitschko in his 17th fight, fighting Molina for his 17th fight. Wilder - Fighting Jason Gavern in his 33rd fight, fighting Molina in his 35th fight. Discuss?
True but despite what we all think about Wilder I always go off what the opposition thinks and nobody is in a hurry to fight him are they? I'm a fan of AJ but he still need rounds and currently nobody has given him past seven?
povetkin was mad to fight him, few years ago tony thompson was mad to fight him, chisora was mad to fight him but wilder suddenly had visa issues yet turned up in the uk to spar haye, thats off the top of my head
Yep. Wilder will take the weakest available fighter the sanctioning body will allow. Joshua will take the strongest.
Joshua has been on the world stage since his debut 17 fights ago. Wilder only got his Showtime deal 12 fights ago when he fought Kelvin Price. He was a nobody before that . Nobody knew who he was. He was learning his trade on the club circuit alongside loads of others like him who will never make it . He wasn't in the public eye , so why begrudge him for moving up the ranks out of nothingness to become a contender and then a title holder?
In the UK, fighters tend to get stepped up and matched tougher, particularly at HW. Consider... In T Furys first 15 fights he fought McDermott twice, Ellis, Belshaw, undefeated Power, undefeated Nascimento, undefeated Chisora. Now in 25 fights he has fought Rogan, Chisora again, Cunningham, K Johnson and W Klitschko In D Chisoras first 15 fights he fought undefeated Sexton twice, D Williams, undefeated T Fury. In 19 fights he went on to face undefeated Helenius, Haye, V Klitschko. By the time he had fought 25 times he had then gone on and faced Johnson, Gerber, undefeated Scott, T Fury again In A Joshuas first 17 fights he has fought undefeated champ Martin, undefeated Breazeale, undefeated Whyte, undefeated Cornish, K Johnson, M Sprott, Skelton D Haye cleaned up at CW and went to HW and in that time at HW before his 3 years out of the ring fought Chisora, W Klitschko, Barrett and Valuev Several of these fights were also away I have thought before that often when fighters are having such tough fights before fighting for titles, that they could be faded and then could possibly get beaten by fighters without as much wear and tear. If you look at how I have rated the current British top 5 Fury Joshua Haye Chisora Whyte I think it is debateable that Wilder has beaten anyone as good as that British top 5 at the time when he fought them With the names listed above and considering the other talented British HWs like H Fury, D Price etc. Britains HW division is very talented when you consider that the UK doesnt have 40 HWs and the USA have over 350 and its debateable whether Wilder the top USA HW would be in the British top 3
Molina is clearly not the best fight available to him. Pulev was available, why not fight him if that was the case? Haye? Even Duhaupas.
Pulev turned down 3 big offers to fight AJ, he didn't want the fight he said that he wanted to defend his EU belt. In fact there was a video posted about this like two days ago. Haye is not ranked by the IBF. Molina and Duhaupas are the same thing.