Wilder is not developed enough as a boxer to defeat someone like Wlad ... Who perfected the jab and grab protect the fragile chin style
I'm not gonna sit here and say Wilder would beat Wlad, but let's be real here - Wilder has floored everyone he's faced, including Fury Fury beat a close-to-peak Wlad with ease and had a tougher time in all Wilder fights. The idea that Wilder might get the ko vs peak Wlad is not exactly a massive leap of faith.
Wilder has an early puncher's chance, but that's about it. Wlad knocks him out. There's a reason Wilder wanted no part of Wlad. There was plenty of overlap where Wilder could easily have positioned himself for a title shot, but he took the easier path of waiting for the vacant WBC belt.
He actively ****ed wlad when he has the title, wlad stated numerous times he wanted to unify. Shelly finkel said that despite wilder being a champion he was a work in progress and wasn't ready for wlad
I think Emanual Stewart once said that Wladimir Klitschko was more talented than Lennox Lewis. That he was frustrating sometimes. A peak Wladimir Klitschko by rights would keep pushing Wilder back and keep him behind his jab. But I think Wladmir would go into his shell, a bit like he did against Tyson Fury. Just by the simple fact that Wilder is taller than Wladimir, who normally was the bigger guy. Kept opponents behind his jab. then leaned on him. And only Tyson Fury can do that to Wilder. 50 - 50 fight. Which should have been an option. So I didn't vote. There is a tendency for boxing fans to overate past fighters. So I am not surprised by the poll results.
Fury didn't beat Klitschko with "ease". It was a fairly competitive but boring affair. Regardless, had that version of Fury showed up against Wilder in the first fight, we wouldn't have had a trilogy because Fury would have pitched a virtual shutout. Wilder got a sloppier, post-prime version of him. In this fight we are talking about two men who rely on straight punches and one was far better in delivering them, Wladimir Klitschko. Klitschko by kayo.
If Wlad could get knocked out by Ross Purrity, Corrie Sanders and Lamon Brewster. He can definetely get knocked out by Deontay Wilder. Two things Wlad hated. Opponents that he couldn't bully and unpredictability. Wilder has both of those things. 50 - 50 fight all day long-
Whilst this is true... We're talking about one genuinely and undeniably elite fighter, with the resume to prove it, against one of the biggest hypejobs in recent boxing history. Deontay Wilder has an incredibly thin resume for a former champion with a number of title defences to his name - by resume alone, he's arguably not even contender level in the first place... Sure, most of us agree that he probably is, but proving that is next to impossible because he's spent the vast majority of his career fighting journeyman level opponents at best, and consistently ducked genuine contenders in Povetkin, Whyte and Joshua. To call this a 50/50 matchup is absolutely absurd.
No. Just absolutely no. You have the evidence on Wilder yet you continue to try to sell the myth. I don't rate Klitschko against the greatest HWs but he would avoid Wilder's only weapon and knock him out