I heard they were going to make a statue of Nichols but they didn't have enough bronze, so they made one of Wilder instead. Shame really
Unironically I believe there's a chance. The blueprint is there. While yes, the chances of Nichols getting knocked out are around 99.99%, Wilder was an extremely flawed champion who didn't even reign at the weakest the HW division has been in arguably all of boxing history.