He’s in the mid 210’s hydrated, he could easily drain 15lbs of water, fighters at lower weights have done more, how would he do at Crusierweight now? If you don’t think he’d do well now, how would he have done in his prime?
He did "well" at heavy because so many heavies are bulky and slow plodders with limited technique and even more limited ring IQ... It's much easier to manufacture a hard hitting hypejob at heavy. Wilder would've been a lamb to the slaughter at Cruiser even in his prime - no way he'd have beaten Usyk, Briedas, Gassiev or Bellew at CW... He was far too limited in technique and brains to be competitive - so just like he did at heavy, he'd have ducked the best and claimed to be something special. Only difference is he'd probably have been unlikely to find an org as willing to let him off with soft mandatories. He'd stand no chance now even with cruiser being nowhere near as good as it could be.
Go to Bridger. I think the WBC partially made the division for him...he should avail himself! Read the top ten for the WBC or WBA. It is a clownshow. He'll fit right in!
The guys 38 man come on, if he moved to cruiser he'd ruin his career even further. Time to call it a day.
I think he does even worse than at HW at this point. Loses some of that surprise explosion speed advantage, doesn't have enough punch resistance to weather the smaller but more dynamic guys, can't compete skill-wise, incomparable output... A catastrophy waiting to happen if he tries that.
Imho a much wiser move would be to move up to bridgerweight. Due to the weight and strength of the competition. But either of these two actions would add nothing to Wilder's career.
