Comments Thread For: Joseph Parker: "I Respect Wilder But He's In My Way, I'm Here To Win!"

[MulaKO]

Just can’t see Parker winning this
Wilder’s power will overwhelm Parker and sooner than later he’ll drop
The only reason to give Parker any chance to victory , I’d say its Wilder’s inactivity and the fact his chin has been cracked and cracked hard by Fury
Then again , i don’t particularly see Parker as a cracker , does he have that kind of power ?
Wilder ko’s him in 3 rounds , his power will save him once again
Slight edge to Parker if it goes in deep waters

[pollywog]

Wilder ran scared from Helenius until Bob decided to fall over from a first round paw to the face.

When Parker cracks him with bad intentions early it's gonna trigger some Fury flashbacks he'd rather forget.

The so called switch up and fighting off the back foot is a myth. Parker will catch him up and uppercut his head clean off.

[Boro]

I specifically mentioned Washington as an example of the 2 out of 43 fights that he wasn't up on the cards. You're a worse cherry picker than him to bring that up.

You're missing two fundamental points. One is that he's very good at knocking people down (and out). Everyone he's ever faced has tasted the canvas. That's an automatic 10-8 for him no matter how the rest of the rounds goes, the way boxing is scored currently, favorable judging or not. So he can win essentially two rounds in one punch. That's going to translate to being up on the cards.

The second is that the REALITY, to use your own word, is that he's going to get that A-side nod more often than not, especially because boxing is heavily about landing the best punches, and he's got that in spades. So even if he's getting out boxed for large portions of the fight, he only needs to get it right for one moment to win the round or the fight. That means your criticism is largely irrelevant. He can get schooled for most of the fight, and equalize with several knockdowns. And he keeps that power through 12 rounds and when hurt.

The REALITY is that it's actually extremely rare for him to be down on points. Is he a poor technical boxer? Sure. But the majority of heavyweights are, and have been historically. Technical skill goes down as weight goes up. So why do you care? Doesn't matter to the end result.

Wilder was being outboxed by washington so your "example" was asinine only goes to further my point about biases and such, he was ahead on one card and even on two whilst clearly being outboxed.

And the same was true with Szpilka he was clearly getting outboxed but was massively up on the cards so much so that Szpilka would've had to knock him out, this is consistent with Wilder even before accounting for KDs...

And no he hasn't knocked out or down everyone he's ever faced.

are you a johnny come lately? or do just eat up the narrative!? Greene suffered a wrist injury for example was forced to retire in his corner, Duhaupas never touched the canvas and it's not like he's known for being durable...

And I've never mentioned "A-side" anything, so i've got no idea why you brought that up as for his power telling late in fights, we're yet to see that with a known durable opponent in decent shape Fury was pretty much fresh off the couch and isn't known for his durability but rather his powers of recovery and Wilders extremely low output plays into Furys thinking man's style...

And of course skill goes down as you move up the division that's never been up for debate but that doesn't take away from Wilders abysmal technique/ability even when you account for the division he is in.