What would Deontay Wilder have to achieve to be considered the greatest heavyweight boxer ever ?

Nothing. He has already acheived that feat.

 

He'd need to beat Fury, Joshua, Ruiz, Pulev, Povetkin, Usyk, Whyte, Parker, become undisputed, and then beat a couple of the next generation of future champions.

 

Lol, I feel like you've put a lot of effort into this and got extremely carried away...

At 34 years old I can't se him having another 27 fights, which based on him fighting twice a year would nearly take him to 48 years old..........

 

A couple of very well respected historians exposing the likes of Louis, Tunney, Ali, Marciano and such as total frauds, so modern day fighters have a chance to even be considered for those positions. And then he has to go on a streak the likes we never expected from such a low skilled fighter.

 

He has wasted to much of his career, and is too old now I think to do what is required to achieve the best ever.

If he clears out the top ten, and has a few years being the recognised champion he will probably make the top ten though.

Number one ever would require a run of title defences he is just too old now to do during his career.

 

Cool list actually.

(And when he retires he becomes UN Secretary General and ushers in 1000 years of world peace.)

 

Well maybe for starters, fight a decent opponent? Only good opponent was Fury who dominated him. And a 60 year old Ortiz

 

Beat Fury and Ruiz or Joshua...

 

Live in a different era?

 

He needs to clean out the division and unify. He might be the best of the current lot but he needs to prove that in the ring.

His record is padded with too many bouts against soft touches. I get he was a raw talent and was being brought along slowly but he is the champ now.

If he wants to really cement his legacy his fights from here on out should be against the top 5 in his division.

From Joe Louis to Ali to Lennox Lewis, the HW champ, to really be considered the champ, takes on and beats the best.

Wilder has not yet done that so this talk of him being the best ever is premature.

 

If he built a time machine to fight those guys they would knock him to 2074

 

The same for all the top current hw's they need to all fight each other, Wilder,fury ruiz, joshua, one man needs to beat all the rest become the king then go on to defend successfully again the next generation of up coming heavyweights like dubois etc.

 

Beat Fury, Joshua, Ruiz, Parker, Whyte.

It doesn't matter if he's a one trick pony. That trick has been proven to be spectacular.

 

You're right he can't, even if he ko'ed Ruiz, Parker,Whyte,AJ , these guys aren't exactly a murderers row.

 

with a time machine