Wilder vs. Ngannou

Sure but Wilder isn't a top ten boxer either on the basis that his resume is 98% bums and he had to get lucky to get a draw against a very unfit and rusty Fury... Especially now Fury's invincibility narrative has crumbled and people are taking a more balanced view of him.

Say what you like about Chisora and Whyte, but they took on genuine threats and took their L's and kept on going..

 

Wilder is one of the 10 best HWs in the world, obviously.
Whyte and Chisora are journeymen. They give guys hard fights but they eventually lose to everybody.

 

The biggest difference is they'd actually fight anybody - Wilder ducks... Look at Chisora's L's and Wilder would lose to most of them, same with Whytes.

And lest we forget, Wilder ducked Whyte for years... If Whyte is shyte, that says a lot about Wilder's self confidence.

Top ten, possibly, but it's highly debatable with a resume that long and being as inactive as he has been.

 

Okay, they fight everybody but they lose. They are fun and their attitude is good for the sport but I am not going to rate someone higher because they accept fights and in the end lose. If Wilder would or not win or lose to Povektin we don't know.

Wilder wins over Ortiz are good. Whyte is a good fighter but he is not better than Ortiz, hardly he has the name to anyone duck him... he is just not a big name in.

 

I want to see Zhang Ngannou. Wilder got iced twice by the same fat bum that Ngannou just embarrassed.

 

Joyce is a top 10 Ring ranked heavyweight boxer. If Ngannou beats Joyce he will be too.

 

Even if there are 10 HW's who beat Ngannou on most nights he still has a puncher's chance. Someone like Makhmudov would be at great risk I think, Takam's punches were making an impact and Mak doesn't have a backfoot game. On the inside he'd find someone equally strong or stronger.

 

I thought it was hilarious Joe Tessitore called Ngannu "the hardest puncher in combat sports" at the start of the fight. I don't like Deontay at all, but his punch removes people from their physical bodies.

 

They'd fight anybody and sometimes lose... But they at least had the balls to try, and sometimes did quite well.

Sure, a loss doesn't necessarily count as a positive on the resume, and unless it's close (or the opponent is very, very good but it's still competitive) or it's a robbery then it doesn't really count for much.

If Wilder believed he had a chance against Pov he would've taken the fight - the excuse about drugs cheats looks ridiculous when it was a Micky Mouse offence and Wilder later went in with a wrecked Fury whose drug offenses were ten times worse.
Realistically, we can be fairly confident Pov would've won - 70/30 for Pov is generous (to Wilder).

Ortiz is another, like Wilder, who gets hyped up as if he was something special - but you look at his resume and there's simply nothing there... His best win was bang average Bryant Jennings - a man whose career highlight was losing a comfortable UD to Wlad, hardly the stuff that defines a serious fighters resume.

So Ortiz being nothing particularly special, Wilder should've had it easy, no? Except he didn't, and needed rescuing by the referee.

Chisora's resume is better than Ortiz, by a long way, and Whytes is better still.

And again - Wilder ducked Whyte... And Povetkin... And Joshua... And made zero attempt to unify against Parker.
Put in context the fights that were out there, the fighters with decent reputations begging for a bout - the overall picture is of a highly protected champion who knew full well he couldn't cut it with any of the best in the division.

 

Im a Wilder fan, have been from Day 1, Ngannou would be a problem. That said Ngannou is a problem for anybody, the dude can fight, he’s fought at the top level in a skill dominated sport with real assassins gunning for his chin. He won’t be intimidated, he won’t be scared, and if you’re going to beat him you better bring a lunch I don’t care who it is.

 

What will Wilder do if Francis takes a note from Fury and decides to clinch and lay his weight on Wilder?

Look at how he physically manhandled a near 280 lbs Fury, what is Wilder and his chicken legs going to do?

 

Wilder is a bum with the skills of a five year old. He also has an old granny chin, chicken legs, and he's lost his heart for the game.

Ngannou would merc him. Bring it on.