Who is the better knockout artist, Deontay Wilder or Artur Beterbiev? (regardless of weight class)

Your hyperbole is making you sound juvenile.

What weight (in terms of kilograms - not the division itself) was Beterbiev at as an amateur, and what does that weight now fall into in terms of if you were going to slot him into a professional weight category? The guy if 5ft10 barefoot and 85kg full hydrated. Wilder has 9" height on him and Usyk has 5" height advantage over him. For those guys it's easier to bulk up and move up. For Beterbiev not so much.

You make tenuous points and have a weak argument.

 

Doh!

 

Wilder literally made a habit of landing the come-from-behind Hail Mary bomb when he was close to being on life support himself. In a way - very impressive and very unimpressive in another way. Beterbiev has essentially made a habit of massacring everyone who has got in the ring with them, rag folling them from start to very early finish.

 

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Wilder KO man
Boxer & KO artist Artur has class in spades

 

You're dizzy.

 

Whoever seriously believes this should be banned for being an idiot.

 

Ahhhh **** off with this man.

 

You're right, Wilder is a hero:

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Ouch, that hurt.

 

Wilder might be, but at what level ?? Cause he ain't done it against world top 10 level fighters, Beterbiev is in with a better level and although it's accumulation of brute power instead of 1 punch, I'm going with him...This what happens when you cherry pick, there's never a true gauge to measure

 

Beterbiev gets shorter every time someone tries to defend him. LOL.

Beterbiev is the same height as Tyson, Frazier, Shavers and every other heavyweight who hovered a fraction above or below six feet. Some sites have Beterbiev at six feet, some have him a half inch under.

If weigh ins were the day of the fight, he wouldn't be a light heavyweight. He dries out to make weight and rehydrates.

He hasn't been able to physically compete weighing in the 170s for more than a decade and even then he couldn't make 175. The amateur limit for light heavys is three pounds higher than the pros.

You could argue he has never fought at 175 or below in his entire adult life. But that is where he chose to dry out and compete for a belt. He is the classic weight bully. His photo should be featuured next to the definition.

He didn't fight at heavyweight when he turned pro because he would have to fight and knock out other heavyweights.

Wilder has knocked 41 of them. Beterbiev didn't even try.

 

Wilder is fighting Tyson Fury for the third time when he returns.

Beterbiev is fighting Fanlong Meng.

If fighting the #1 fighter in the sport three times is cherry picking, what the hell is Beterbiev doing?

Because he came out of the same division Wilder did.

 

I know people around here like to say Wilder makes a habit of needing a knockout to win, but go back and look at the official scorecards and show me all the times Wilder needed a knockout or he would've lost a decision on the official cards?

Has that ever happened? Really?

 

Not as dizzy as I am sure Beterbiev is when he gets in the scale drained of all fluids.

The guy could've added one pound for his pro debut and fought as a heavyweight.

Instead, he dries out and tries to work off 20-plus pounds before every weigh in so he doesn't have to fight guys like Wilder, Fury, Ortiz, Joshua. And instead, he fights the lightest guys he possibly can.

Because he can't punch with them.

 

He was 185lbs for debut. Hardly a pound off heavyweight.

That's his walk around weight BTW. Draining 10lbs is more or less 'industry standard'. Calling him a weight bully is like calling Wilder an average puncher. It's simply untrue.

Please Dubble, please find me a single fight where Beterbeiv has weighed in above 200lbs. If you can't, and I very much doubt you can, stop calling him a heavyweight. Because everyone with an ounce of objectivity and who's ever watched Beterbeiv fight, can tell that is a natural, day before weigh-in LHWs.