This Era has a solid No. 2 Heavyweight - And it Ain't Anthony Joshua!

[Mr Giggles]

This must’ve taken you ages to write so I gave you a like for the effort you put into this

[W1LL]

This ish is biased. Why TF does AJ lose 8 points for getting outboxed by Usyk, but Wilder only loses 6 and 7, respectively, for getting battered and stopped by Fury? I have to think you're being serious OP, with the amount of effort you put into this. The numbers have been made to fit your opinion lol.

[W1LL]

PS. And if you are being serious, AJ's Olympic Gold has to be a 10 at Super Heavyweight, while Wilder's Bronze is what? A 5? At Heavyweight. That would give it to AJ!

[i love boxing]

Joshua fought better comp then Wilder to be honest.

[ralex]

Joshua fought better comp then Wilder to be honest.

I would agree with that

but I still believe Wilder would KO Joshua with no problem.

[VG_Addict]

Past-it Wlad and Povetkin alone are better than anyone Wilder has beaten. Wilder's resume is TERRIBLE.

[VG_Addict]

Also, your scoring system is completely arbitrary and biased. It doesn't consider the fact that Wilder was getting outboxed against Ortiz, Szpilka and Washington until he knocked them out.

[i love boxing]

Past-it Wlad and Povetkin alone are better than anyone Wilder has beaten. Wilder's resume is TERRIBLE.

2 40 year olds?

[KingGilgamesh]

Bit of a ****** system

However it’s true that his “great” resume isn’t really that spectacular

Let’s take it from when he stepped up to world title level. He has beaten Charles Martin, Breazeale, Molina, Takam. All C level fighters.

Povetkin and Pulev were both nearly 40, well past their best, never won real world titles and had only real fought at a high level once and lost.

what are you left with? Parker? Well he was a poor champion, arguably lost to Hughie Fury and his short title reign was poor performances against the likes of Cojanu.

Andy Ruiz has been a B level
fighter at best all his career apart from one night. AJ should be embarrassed it took 2 attempts to beat him, and even that was partly because Ruiz didn’t train so AJ ran around the ring.

Then you have a Wlad, a life and death fight with a 41 year old that had been schooled by Fury 18 months earlier. So his best win is a Fury leftover.

then finally Usyk who schooled him.

So although he has a lot of recognisable names, he’s never beaten any long reigning champs for any belts. He has some solid wins but he is a product of good matchmaking to get the best names past their best.

Wilder’s resume is only missing a few old faded names and it would be similar.

I’ll take quality over quantity. Fury has beaten proper long reigning champs for belts. Fought eliminator after eliminator just to get Wlad in the ring when he was the dominant man in the division. He wasn’t bought title shots like AJ had with the likes of Martin.

Yeah even though I agree with the OPs premise. This stands more to reason. Joshua's resume is actually wank. It's just that Wilders isn't that great either. I actually think as time goes on Joshua's opponents like Parker and Ruiz will continue to fade into the fringes. It's already happening now tbh. Parker hasn't done anything of note other than sc**** past Chisora and Ruiz doesn't seem to have a strong desire to get into the ring with an ancient Ortiz.

Time will tell.

[KingGilgamesh]

PS. And if you are being serious, AJ's Olympic Gold has to be a 10 at Super Heavyweight, while Wilder's Bronze is what? A 5? At Heavyweight. That would give it to AJ!

It was a very dodgy gold tbf. And won at home.