Why do people keep talking about how "athletic" Wilder is?
Wilder isn't athletic. He's a big gangly uncoordinated idiot who took thirty fights to learn how to throw a jab properly. He still falls over his own feet when throwing power punches and continues to make the same elementary mistakes over and over again, with no sign of improvement. Those aren't athletic traits. Wilder is fast and explosive. That's it. He has an extremely limited ability to take what he learns in the gym and apply it to his own neural pathways.
Lest people feel I'm unfairly criticising Americans here, let it be know that I consider Jennings to be an excellent athlete and a true natural born fighter. In half the fights Wilder had he was already fighting the likes of Perez and Klitschko. This was with virtually no amateur experience and having joined the sport at a later age than Wilder did. He also continues to show marked improvements in every fight while Wilder shows very little progress at all.
Wilder is an athlete only in the most shallow sense of the term.
Wilder isn't athletic. He's a big gangly uncoordinated idiot who took thirty fights to learn how to throw a jab properly. He still falls over his own feet when throwing power punches and continues to make the same elementary mistakes over and over again, with no sign of improvement. Those aren't athletic traits. Wilder is fast and explosive. That's it. He has an extremely limited ability to take what he learns in the gym and apply it to his own neural pathways.
Lest people feel I'm unfairly criticising Americans here, let it be know that I consider Jennings to be an excellent athlete and a true natural born fighter. In half the fights Wilder had he was already fighting the likes of Perez and Klitschko. This was with virtually no amateur experience and having joined the sport at a later age than Wilder did. He also continues to show marked improvements in every fight while Wilder shows very little progress at all.
Wilder is an athlete only in the most shallow sense of the term.
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