What do you think of Deontay Wilder?

I got no real problem moving him along slowly given his noobness...but 1 or 2 round demolitions teach him nothing and don't expose flaws he might have or be developing.

He doesn't need to step up to fringe contender or proven trialhorse yet but his level of opposition is just staying the same and it's not good for him IMO.

 

Anybody who says he cannot learn from these mismatches is 100% correct. However, he learns through training camps, in fact, he sparred with David Haye for the Wlad fight.

 

time to step it up a bit but not too much. gradually step it up, face a few top 50's then a few top 30's and see how he looks then go from there. people calling for an immediate step up to top 20 level are crazy, this kid is so young and he had hardly any amateur experience despite managing an Olympic medal. He's only 26 which is still a kid for a heavyweight and he still needs to fill out quite a bit.....215 is far too small for 6 foot seven. He has a lot to work on still as far as defense and technique but the thing that's great about Wilder is he's got certain qualities that hardly any other prospects at heavy posess that could turn him into an absolute beast with more polishing and slowly upping the oppostion level which he has a lot of time to do still, he's got a good 3-4 years before he needs to even think about fighting top 10 guys and getting in line for a title shot, by then both Klits will be long gone and he might be a fornt runner for whoever the man is at that time. Wilder has great physical attributes,he's in great shape, he's 6'7 and will most likely be around the 230-240 range in a couple years of bulking up more, he has brutal power and is very athletic, combine those with 3 more years of polishing his technique and D while gradually fighting stiffer opposition and he might be something special, there's no other prospects at heavy that have the natural physical and athletic tools Wilder has. He needs some rounds desperately though, for his next few fights his team should be looking to match him with Iron Chinned journeymen without too much pop and without too high of a workrate, they need to see how he can handle a journeyman for 8-10 rounds before moving him up.

 

I think they are going the wrong way with him - He fought in the amateurs as a cruiser and was 'full grown' then. In my opinion he doesn't have the frame to fight a super HW so boil 10 lbs off of him and you have a damned fine Cruiser who COULD win a title. Most cruisers couldn't reach him with a power shot and don't have the power of HW's to begin with. Maximize his advantages and minimize his weaknesses.
If he can't handle that he was dead as a HW prospect anyway and if he does win a CW title he will have had some real fights against good boxers so he can then bulk up and try for the next level and command a bigger paycheck.
I think it is his best path to a successful career as a pro boxer but it does not look like his team is interested in that.

 

Can't really tell at this point , he needs to step it up. I don't even think the tag of "glass jawed" is even fair at this point. A person getting knocked down or rattled can happen to anybody. Case in point People all but forgot about the fight when Andre ward was on the come up and he fought a tomato can named Darnell Boone and got hurt & knocked down. (yeah people tend to forget about that one) But do you think Andre is a hype job? He's proven to be the goods. So bottomline jury is still out on Wilder, But i'm sure we all agree he needs to freakin STEP UP THE COMPETITION.

 

he will be a champion, no doubt in my mind.

 

well it is after hard work.

This is a Strong ERA and not like in weak eras of 70's, 80's, 90's which were absolutely garbabe. In those joke Eras Hw champion was the winner of the USA Hw boxing championships. Fighters of those days first of all would not be even hw's in today but Cruiserweight journeymen.