Comments Thread For: Deontay Wilder On Comeback: Boxing Dies Without Excitement Of American Heavyweight Champ

[The Old LefHook]

Have you seen him scream? He could fit his mouth over a parking meter.

[boxing IQ]

Wilder and Joshua is still hands down the best fight to be made. Still have an inkling of hope it happens.

[MoneyKing]

Deontay Wilder and Anthony 'Femi' Joshua are bums.

[elfag]

Wilder has a ton of options. Want to see him fight AJ the most.

[moochi]

I love his interviews, his command of the English language, and the stuff that he says, the fact that he fights is a bonus. Good luck to him, I'll tune in for the press conferences and interviews all day long... till this day!

[jonnyc420]

So where is he now? I swear Karma's a bitch!

Where is who now? Karma? Make some sense please?

[sportbuddha]

He clearly didn’t notice that during the Klitschko dominant years other weights classes kept the buzz in boxing in the US, it’s one of the reasons Mayweather got so rich.

[manfrommars]

The subtext of his statement is that European Heavyweights are boring. Let's analyse that statement:

Most Notable European HWs:
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Vitali: BORING
Wlad: BORING
Fury: EXCITING
Lewis: A BIT BORING
Frank Bruno: A BIT BORING
Joe Bugner: BORING
Henry Cooper: EXCITING


Most Notable American HWS:
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Joe Louis: EXCITING
Sonny Liston: EXCITING
Muhammad Ali: EXCITING
Larry Holmes: EXCITING
George Foreman: EXCITING
Mike Tyson: EXCITING
Evander Holyfield: EXCITING
Wilder: EXCITING

Wilder has a point. There's a certain fluid and flashy style that European boxing generally lacks. Naseem Hamed is probably the only exception.

[Marchegiano]

Sure as **** is the truth. Boxing has been boring without Deontay.

I think it's funny guys who don't like him don't realize their inability to not talk about him every chance he gets is part of it. If he was not exciting and not important you wouldn't talk about him.

[Sid-Knee]

Boxing does thrive on excitement. But you weren't exciting. You fought bums, struggled with them, then when behind on points, got the KO late on while swinging all over the place like a loony in gail-force wind. Other than the first Ortiz fight and a few rounds in Fury 1 and 3, you were beyond tedious. You were too scared to throw punches in the rematch with Ortiz and Fury. You just backed away doing nothing.

Only Americans want an American Heavyweight. The rest of the world is perfectly fine with their fighters. It didn't die in any way shape or form. In fact, it grew. Euro's were selling out stadiums. You couldn't even sell out a small arena. Fans from your own country couldn't even give a damn about you. The only time you sold, was through Fury. That is living proof. Not your delusions.

The money does flow. For Euro's who sell plenty of tickets and PPV's. For you, you were paid peanuts until Fury came along. If you're paid the same kind of money as with those fights, you backers will just lose a whole load more money.