I think Showtime meant that Mike Tyson-Tony Tucker was the last HW unification bout where both fighters were undefeated. Lewis already had a loss when he unified against Hollyfield.
Wlad didn't exactly beat any HOFer in his whole career. He went through another gate by defending his title for more than 10 years. So far, Wilder has been defending his WBC belt for 3 years and Joshua for 2 years.
It will be re-enactment of the Stiverne fight. Wilder will just jab his way until he hurts Parker and finish him. Parker needs to learn how to cut off the ring, given his lack of length and disadvantage on the outside against longer and taller fighters.
Talent pool is still underwhelming but the hype its generating right now is reminiscence of the 90's atleast. The Klitchsko brothers never generated hype as much as the potential bout between Wilder-Joshua right now.
Loma have a pretty good resume already. We are at the age of "Business" boxing where promoters would rather protect their cash cows than have them face the best fighters available.
Not only older heavies are skilled, they are also agile and very durable. You see many heavyweights today gassed up on the 6th round when older guys can finish 15 or more round fights.
That was back when they were really light weight, I've seen Holyfield gas as early as the 5th round vs Moorer.
That's a myth. Ali in his prime was weighing 220+ in his fights. Pretty light for today's HW standards but it is still on the limit. Foreman probably weight around 230+ in his prime.
The problem with today's heavyweights is that only few can keep themselves in shapes. Even Wlad can't handle fast-paced fights as displayed against Correy Sanders.
He needs to have a marquee name on his resume. Both Bernard Hopkins and Carlos Monzon have fought HOF caliber fighters and lineal champions in their run. GGG haven't fought anything of such caliber.
Well I visited the Phillipines one month ago (Siargao, Bohol, Manila, Siquijor, Cebu).
I wish the US could be as amazing, nice, kind and cool as the Phillipines and its people are.
They truly are great people.
There sure are some poverty but there are not such kind of idiot like skillspaythebills lol
You'd be surprised how many idiots are posting in the internet. We are usually nice people, but avoid pinoy gaming and sports communities. They are cancerous and will give you a brain tumor.
Bunch of bums if you ask me
Asians dominate the lower division, beating latinos, europeans and africans. If they are bums, I don't know what other boxer they have beaten is.