And look at how that turned out. Andy Ruiz had previously challenged for a world title so in that sense he was actually better than the guy Joshua was supposed to have been fighting. Look at who Joshua's fought. Wlad, Povetkin, Parker, Pulev and now Usyk. Wlad and Povetkin might have been a little bit past their prime but they were still pretty good, as demonstrated by Joshua's fight with Wlad and by Povetkin chinning Whyte in Eddie's back garden. Wilder would never in a million years go near any of those guys. He didn't even want to fight Charles Martin for God's sake. He's never held a single unification bout. The closest he came was making a fight with Povetkin, but then he cried off when Povetkin got busted for PEDs. Yet he went and fought Ortiz who's known to be a roid cheat.
They did offer it to Ortiz remember for $7 mill, but he turned it down. Hunter was the other option I believe but Ruiz Jr was always going to be a more marketable option that Hunter. And what if Joshua had an easy fight, every fight doesn't always have to be the very best and his track record is pretty clear he's almost always tried to fight the biggest threat or name, unlike Wilder who's whole reign has been a cherry pick.
Both Fury and WIlder's resumes are very thin IMO. Beating Wlad was the only decent win he had. AND if WIlder is such crap like all of FUry's nutsack lickers say, he's not a good win on his record either.
It's could be a case of who shakes off the ring rust first. Obviously Fury is favourite to win, l just think the inactivity of both makes it a intriguing, even levelling things up slightly.
Wilder's a good scalp because the media have puffed him up as the next big thing, this superstar champion. ESPN actually had the nerve to compare Wilder to Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson won the title at 20 and unified the title a month after turning 21. Tyson beat some of the biggest names in the division, including stunning wins over Trevor Berbick, Larry Holmes and the previously unbeaten Michael Spinks. Wilder's best opponent was Fury, and he got taken to school both times. He's never held a single unification bout. His dumbass left all that money on the table to fight a then unbeaten Anthony Joshua for all the belts and the biggest payday of his career, to go and fight Fury for less money and an ass-whooping he won't soon forget