Whatever you say more like! I'm 100% certain Povetkin would have Knocked him out BRUTALLY! Wilder had ZERO CONFIDENCE of victory, hence why he ran home back to Alabama as quickly as possible and threw a huge party in relief!!!!
The record is clear. Wilder's management has avoided live bodies throughout his career. Even the "good" opponents they selected (Stiverne and Ortiz) were old, ill and overrated.
He's the ATG at a cherrypicking, manufactured career avoiding good mandatories. To be fair his team have done a wonderful job getting a windmilling, uncordinated, technically awful fighter this far by careful matchmaking. If the Povetkin fight had happened. Wilder would be forgotten about by now/ seen as an even bigger joke than he is. Povetkin was in ruthless form at that time. No chance Wilder would have got out of there without being KTFO, and he knows that himself.
Do you even know what he was accused of using? Meldonium. It is not a steroid. It increases blood flow. The whole meldonium ban was about politics. The drug was not being produced by Big Pharma so it was eating into their profits. Essentially, it was another indirect sanction on Russia.