Wilder's left hook will be key to success

Landing clean power punches would be a nice improvement.

 

Wilders need to sort his head and footwork out

He can't!

 

Here is Wilders whole repertoire:
Straight Right
Uppercut
That's it
I struggle seeing him land a solid uppercut on Fury

 

Wilder needs to land that right hand or he has zero chance to win the fight

 

Fury will push Wilder back; he sensed that this was very possible after he got knocked down the first fight. Wilder's punches will have less force going back, also he was a little clueless going on the backfoot. I saw in Wilders training video they were trying to teach him slipping and standing his ground (which is hard with somebody being 280 lbs leading on him). But i think you can teach an old dog new tricks in a couple of months, and in the heat he'll revert to his old ways. Also it was evident that Wilder was getting exhausted being pushed around by Fury. Lastly i give the edge to a better boxer esp. if they fought before and did handily beat him already. Wilders right is a looping shot coming in from far which is much easier if you are longer/taller then your opponent but Wilder isn't, and Fury should be aware of this shot by now. I don't think Wilder will go for the body, his moneyshot is the looping/straight right to the head, on the inside Wilder will get busted up.

That being said Wilder can still land a Wilder Wild Windmill and cause Fury some problems. However i see this going Fury's way. Mentally i see that Wilder is obsessed with Fury, which can cause him problems when the fight doesn't go his way. This is Fury's fight to loose basically if he hasn't been training properly and starts showboating like he did in the first fight and got clipped.

Lasty both are really nuts but Wilder takes the cake, this guy is really dim witted and his ego will be larger then life if he wins. So i am rooting for Fury.

 

I think it is a risky fight for Fury if he does not push the fight and be the boss, and if Wilder has confidence and fights hard for a few rounds who knows... He could land.

 

One of Wilder's few highlights in the first bout (outside of the more obvious breakthroughs in the 9th and 12th rounds) was when he read Fury's stutter-step jab with a swatting hook and pivot that put Tyson briefly off balance and drew a rueful look from him somewhere in the early going. The execution wasn't smooth, but it provided momentary scoring relief and a rare instance of maneuvering success over Fury. Beyond that (and its secondary role in the 12th round knockdown and ensuing barrage), yeah, the left hook of Wilder was pretty much a non-factor through the rivalry to this point.

Employing the left hook more needs to go hand in hand with developing it into a real left hook, ergo an actual weapon — his slapping arm punch hook did send Scuba Scott tumbling to the canvas back in the day, but that's not a high bar — and yet, judging by the padwork, Wilder still doesn't know how to throw the punch correctly. It could've been assumed that Malik Scott wouldn't be the most apt guy Wilder could enlist to address defects in his offense; but, then, Wilder seems to be in denial that anything ever needed fixing (Malik's just coaxing innate expertise from a wellspring that had been laying dormant within Wilder), on top of being long in the tooth to begin with.

 

The knockdown in the 12th round began with a left hook, at which point Fury was going down. The right hand
was icing on the cake.

 

Your recall's failing you in this instance, Frank. The right was the significant punch, the hook was the cherry on top. The left which preceded the right was a throwaway jab.

Unless you're pulling some sophisticated gaslighting or such, in which case disregard and carry on.

 

You are correct. The left was last....I wouldn't call it the cherry on top because it really looked worse that the right but whatever,
it wasn't the first punch in the sequence.

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Wilder has no timing whatsoever with his left hook. Fury will beat him to the punch every time.

 

Better chance of distracting Fury by sending a few hookers to his room the night before.

 

Joshua never cherrypicked. Don't put Joshua in the same category as Wilder

 

That right was a thudding one which found Fury's temple as he was dipping and sent him down. The left does look more dramatic and snapping, I grant you, on account of Fury already being on his way with his head sat up to be hit.

 

Andy Ruiz. Picked by Hearn to be a walkover, and AJ agreed to the pick.