Parker made them both hesitant to let their hands go with his timing, moving, defensive skills. But vs each other I expect an early KO. Zhang's power is legit in both hands and Wilder is still poor defensively.
Wilder will throw the right hand early, because he has faster feet than Zhang and so can get that distance to launch it. Zhang is better than Helenius but he's just as easy to hit.
The winner of this earns himself another big Saudi payday, but the loser's career will be basically over. So I'd expect them to be fired up and aggressive, even though neither really went for it last time out.
Wilder is 0-3 (2KO losses) against the only super heavy he fought.
Fury doesn't even hit hard.
Wilder's chin is not tested. you will find it's actually not very good.
Joe Joyce has a much much more proven chin than Wilder. Zhang 1 punched him. Joe Parker has one of the best beard of this generation. Joshua couldn't even drop him.
The obvious flaws of both along the power they carry make this an interesting matchup where we don't really know who's flaws get exposed first.
Zhang's feet move at a glacial pace but he has decent skills and a good chin. Wilder has been hurt numerous times but he has shown some ability to recover.
I could see a blowout or a shootout of sorts with both touching the canvas. Of course there's also a chance it resembles the Kimbo Slice/DaDa 5000 fight.
I’m a bit disappointed in Zhang at the moment. Yes, he is slow and gasses, but he still has a pretty decent boxing acumen and he had every chance of getting Parker out of there - twice - but ignored any follow through. I think he sleeps Wilder - if he doesn’t gas himself out shrugging the whole time.
When it's the Saudis that decide who you want to fight along with their huge money offer, it's hard to duck fights.
You pretty much have no excuse why you don't want it. Otherwise, you're officially a duck.
Wilder has a chin and Zhang can only throw one or two before gassing. Wilder wins easily.
Zhang has a chin too. Wilder done been ktfo already. Whoever loses should retire imo. Both slow & lethargic. This could either be a fire fight, which I'm not leaning to, or lots of feints and barely any punches. I see Zhang pulling this out for some reason
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