We have to appreciate prime Deontay Wilder was one of the hardest hitters in boxing history

he was a licenced professional fighter with a winning 4-2 record. He went on to have many more fights.
That is a fact neither of us can deny, yet you are trying for some strange reason.

He may not look pleasant but fortunately boxing doesn’t run on how people look. Tyson fury would be winning no titles if we judged him by his looks. Andy Ruiz doesn’t look like a fighter either.
Whyte looks like he’s dancing on ice, not a fighter.

 

He also never saw the 4th round of any fight and none of the boxers you mentioned looked like him he was the definition of morbidly obese and that is a fact, So for you to put him in the same bracket as any other professional boxer is a insult no modern heavyweight world champion other than Wilder has a guy like this on their record

 

Nothing you can say will convince me that the Nichols fight was anything other than irresponsible and dangerous.
Nichols should not of been anywhere a professional athlete he could of literally been killed he was not even at the level of a club fighter he was a sideshow at best

 

Not really.. resume is shockingly bad, Fury was a cherry pick and he couldn't get the job done.

 

Very true. Thanks for the advice sir

 

Stop responding to yourself, thanks.

 

You make it sound like he was fighting during the Ali era in his prime.

 

He had great power in the right hand but age caught up with his ass. He was lost against Parker and the Chinaman Buster Douglased his aging ass.

 

I do wonder if Wilder had a trainer like Marcianos namely Charley Goldman, who believed that a trainer should not interfere with a fighter's natural style, but rather refine and improve it, would have resulted in a better fighter.

Marciano was of course a different mentality to Wilder, but prior to starting under Goldmans tutelagel was a very rough diamond boxing skills wise.

Marciano of course remained crude and far from slick, but i liked Goldmans quote "A lot of people say Rocky don't look too good in there, but the guy on the ground don't look too good either."

But the million dollar question is, would Wilder have listened to such a wise trainer as Goldman?

 

Maybe, but he didn't really do what famed big punchers do and really damage people seen as iron-chinned.

His most spectacular KOs/KDs were against unknowns or people with a propensity for getting knocked down or out (Szpilka, Ortiz, Audley, Washington, Fury, Molina) or painfully shot fighters (Liakhovich, Stiverne 2).

I give him credit for KO'ing a pretty durable Breazeale, who took a lot of punishment from AJ, before going down, and for hurting Stiverne in their 1st fight, but that's not really enough impressive data.

Zhang's made a much more compelling case in much less time for one of the hardest punchers ever, and I'd actually rank him higher than Wilder in that regard. Flattening Joyce and Wilder himself, and putting Parker/Hrgovic down with mere touches, speaks greater volumes for me than Wilder's padded KO record.

 

Neither would Wilder if he had to fight Ali and Holmes.

 

I am judging him by? I am not questioning his power. Read and comprehend, I am questioning the quality of his opponent.

 

Yeah I think people need to realize Stirverne won a vacated belt beating a past it Chris Arreola and that's how Wilder won his belt......

A bit different to fighting 2 top 5 Heavyweights of all time in Holmes x2, Ali.

 

Wilder wasn't knocking out top competition he only beat 2 ranked fighters.

But if you want an example Tyson during his reign in the 80s fought 8 ranked fighters and stopped 6 of them. 2 of them had never been stopped in their entire career Spinks, Holmes.

That's 4x as many ranked fighters that Wilder beat and 3x as many ranked fighters that Wilder stopped.

 

So where are you having a hard time understanding. I stated he had KO against weak opponent. That went away against good opponent.