As Hearn/Joshua keep ducking Wilder, Wilder should pivot to Ruiz

With a tune-up against Franklin first. 1. They are fights that Wilder would very likely win, probably by KO 2. Wilder could benefit from a tune-up fight before taking on Ruiz 3. Ruiz would be a big money fight towards the end of Wilder’s career (African American former titlist vs Mexican former titlist, the man who went 0-2-1 with Fury vs the man who went 1-1 with Joshua) 4. If Wilder KO’d the currently un-KO’d and never knocked down in 24 fights Franklin (who took Joshua and Whyte 12 rounds) and an un-KO’d in 38 fights Ruiz, it would further elevate Wilder above Joshua and further damage Joshua psychologically 5. Ruiz beat Ortiz, Ortiz being Wilder’s best win, which created unfinished business between Wilder and Ruiz (the same would be true to a greater extent between Wilder and Joshua if Wilder KO’d Joshua’s first and most destructive conqueror Ruiz) 6. Beating fellow longtime PBC fighter Ruiz would probably make Wilder Fury’s WBC mandatory or interim champion Ruiz made a lot of money from the Joshua fights, he never needs to fight again. Team Wilder should give Ruiz his 50% as Joshua’s not fighting Wilder any time soon and Wilder’s got nowhere else to go. Ruiz isn’t going to risk getting knocked out for relative chump change.