Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk / Deontay Wilder vs. Anthony Joshua December Doubleheader Talks Start

Wilder's one-punch, first-round KO over the WBA #2 contender last time out was more impressive than any win Joshua has had in recent memory.

Hell, name any heavyweight right now who has a one-round KO win over a ranked opponent? Any of them? Any contender? Any ratings body?

When was the last time Joshua dominated anyone like that? Anyone at all? Franklin wasn't even ranked and he was coming off a loss. And Joshua bored the pants off everyone over 12 rounds.

Don't lump Wilder in with Joshua's dull fights.

Deontay Wilder has so many brutal, dominant KOs, and he's made them so commonplace (when they aren't for anyone else), that people like yourself now appear to just ignore them.

Or, worse, try to dismiss those highlight reel KOs by lumping them in with boring 12-round decisions other contenders have over unranked opponents and trying to pass them off as the "same."

They aren't. Wilder is exciting as hell.

Against his last four opponents - Helenius, Fury, Ortiz and Breazeale - Wilder has a 4-2-1 record with 4 KOs and he's scored 10 KNOCKDOWNS, 3 one-punch KOs and was involved in a Fight of the Year.

Against everyone not named Fury, over the last four years, Wilder has scored one-punch KOs over all of them.

Wilder is the highest rated heavyweight without a belt. He's the #1 contender.

Against Joshua's last four opponents - Franklin, Usyk, Pulev and Ruiz - Joshua doesn't even have a winning record and has only managed to stop Pulev.

It's not 2018 anymore. Joshua is lucky to be included at all.

 

I can see why you're confused because Usyk's second-best win at heavyweight is Chisora. Or was it Chazz Witherspoon? So a boring decision over Franklin might be Usyk's second or third best win at the weight.

No, for all the crap you guys dish out about Wilder, he hasn't fought an unranked opponent in nearly a decade. He certainly wouldn't fight one NOW.

Jermaine Franklin was selected by Eddie Hearn because he had no power, was coming off a loss, was unrated and posed ZERO threat ... so Joshua wouldn't have to worry about getting hurt and Franklin would be easy for Joshua to demolish and reclaim his "damaged psyche."

And, of course, Joshua crapped the bed, went 12 boring rounds and never came close to even putting Franklin down and they had to blame the really bad showing on the idea he had a new trainer.

In Wilder's first fight with a new trainer, he didn't face and unrated nobody who was coming off a loss himself. He fought the World Heavyweight Champion Tyson Fury, floored Fury twice and was involved in the Fight of the Year. In his second fight with his new trainer, he wasted the #2 WBA contender Helenius in one round.

Hearn was praying for a performance from Joshua like the one Wilder delivered against Helenius, and tried to pick the easiest guy for Joshua to face ... someone who wasn't even ranked ... and Joshua still stunk out the joint.

Wilder wastes Franklin, like Wilder has wasted everyone who isn't Tyson Fury. Jared Anderson wastes Franklin. Hell, Big Baby Miller wastes Franklin. Franklin has one KO win in the last four years against a guy with a 20-22 record.

Franklin is nothing. That's why he was selected by Hearn. Franklin was the unrated, light-punching guy coming off a loss himself who Joshua was supposed to wipe out in one round.

But Joshua couldn't do his job and impress.