Comments Thread For: Deontay Wilder: I'll Be Back, And If Not, Then It's Been a Pleasure

[Oshio]

Wilder is not retiring soon. He still has four fights+ in him. Ruiz, Joshua, Usyk, and others.

[IRONCHINHAGLER]

How do you figure 28% against the top 10 when he’s only lost against two men in 4 fights? Stiverne, Fury and Parker were the top 10 fighters he fought in those fights and he’s knocked out 1 of 3 which is 33% of former champions he fought. The only man he hasn’t knocked down is Parker at the tail end at 38.

The following fighters were top 10 when he fought them
1. Ortiz
2. Splika
3. Stiverne
4. Washington
5. Laikovich
6. Helenius
7. Duhaupas
8. Kelvin Price
9. Chris Areola
10. Eric Molina

All top 10 at the time.

Lets get real..the ONLY one on that pathetic list of cans who was legit top 10 was old past it Ortiz.

[IRONCHINHAGLER]

The Bronze Bomber wasn't given much chance to land and looked slow and jaded , I doubt he'll be back , he's old, knocking on forty and made a fortune and seems at piece with himself.At one time he had them all making excuses and running for cover . Good luck to him , a boxing success story.

”All running for cover and making excuses”? Now thats hilarious!! Who and when? Pbc/Wbc protected and coddled Wilder for majority of career with endless “voluntary”
defenses. Wilder famous line when questioned about weak selection of opponents - “The top 10 is not available when i am ready to fight”. Finally Exposed and beatdown by a Fat Man Gypsy who Haymon mistakenly underestimated and nearly got ko himself by a mma fighter in his 1st boxing match. Any legit top 10 Hw would have done the same thing as Fury/Parker - come forward, bully Wilder and keep him on his backfoot. No inside game and clueless on his backfoot with no room to launch right hand. Good Hw…nowhere near great. Likewise for Fury/Aj.

[megh50]

Lets get real..the ONLY one on that pathetic list of cans who was legit top 10 was old past it Ortiz.

Well, let's see your list of the top ten in the last 10 years that Wilder didn't fight.

[brettWall]

Any chance he takes Andy Ruiz if he comes back?

[megh50]

ko artist? With the exception of a old past his prime Ortiz - the rest of Wilder’s supposed historic ko’s were against nothing but tomato cans and cherry-picks. Only fought 3 legit top hw and only ko’d one. Line up the same list of bums(pre-Ortiz) for Foreman, Lewis, Aj, Vitali and they easily would have the same ko percentage.

Such an uninformed statement. Let's examine the facts. Apart from Foreman's impressive victories over Frazier, Norton, and other elites, the rest of the fighters you listed didn't secure knockouts at the highest level. Lewis couldn't knock out Holyfield and beat Vitali on cuts, and defeated an old Tyson. Holyfield, too, scored a knockout against an older Tyson, but who else did he KO among the elite? AJ's knockout of Klitschko came towards the end of Klitchko's career, but can you name other top-level opponents he stopped? And Vitali, which elite fighters did he KO in his era? The truth is, all of them had difficulties in securing knockouts, even within the top 10 WBC level fighters. Man, ground your statements in some statistical evidence before making fantastical claims.

[DClefthook]

Such an uninformed statement. Let's examine the facts. Apart from Foreman's impressive victories over Frazier, Norton, and other elites, the rest of the fighters you listed didn't secure knockouts at the highest level. Lewis couldn't knock out Holyfield and beat Vitali on cuts, and defeated an old Tyson. Holyfield, too, scored a knockout against an older Tyson, but who else did he KO among the elite? AJ's knockout of Klitschko came towards the end of Klitchko's career, but can you name other top-level opponents he stopped? And Vitali, which elite fighters did he KO in his era? The truth is, all of them had difficulties in securing knockouts, even within the top 10 WBC level fighters. Man, ground your statements in some statistical evidence before making fantastical claims.

Thank you.This is exactly what I said in a few posts earlier. These guys carefully scrutinize Wilder's record with a fine tooth comb but act like we can look at Fury, AJ and Klitschko's record and see Mike tyson, Holyfield, Bowe, LennOX, Foreman, Holmes, Spinks, Ali, Ernie Shavers, Joe Frazier etc. The same 'bum" names that are on Wilder's record are the same names on AJ Fury and Klits.

[DClefthook]

Tyson Fury's ten previous fights before Wilder....1. Fanscesco Pianeta 2. Sefer Seferi 3. Wladimir (drugs) 4. Christian Hammer (cheated) 5. Dereck Chisora (20-4) 6. Joey Abell (29-7) 7. Steve Cunningham (25-5 hit in back of head) 8. Kevin Johnson 9. Vinny Maddalone (35-7) 10. Martin Rogan

[DClefthook]

Tyson Fury's ten previous fights before Wilder....1. Fanscesco Pianeta 2. Sefer Seferi 3. Wladimir (drugs) 4. Christian Hammer (cheated) 5. Dereck Chisora (20-4) 6. Joey Abell (29-7) 7. Steve Cunningham (25-5 hit in back of head) 8. Kevin Johnson 9. Vinny Maddalone (35-7) 10. Martin Rogan

out of these ten he only KO'd Steve Cunningham

[kiaba360]

out of these ten he only KO'd Steve Cunningham

Does anyone actually rate Fury as a KO artist though? Also...isn't that an indictment on Wilder....getting stopped by the guy who isn't known for that?