Comments Thread For: Deontay Wilder comes off the shelf ? this time all for himself

[daggum]

Always talking about being betrayed. Wilder seems paranoid.

Personality disorders are a real thing. There is an orange guy who acts the same way proclaiming greatness while failing nonstop.

[Toffee]

Wilder is a one trick pony, it is a hell of a trick but he can't pull the trigger anymore. He used to stay way jabbing and try his one two but he doesn't have those reflexes anymore and his lack boxing skills will not get him through any decent opposition.

He hasn't had the reflexes in 4 of his last 5 fights, but then they were against top level fighters. Well, if you include the wobbly and careless version of Fury that showed up in the third fight.

My prediction is that he'll suddenly remember how to "pull the trigger" now he's back in with a fighter of the level he was knocking out before he stepped up.

I don't doubt he's diminished, I just doubt that his aging was the main contributor to him not being able to getting punches away.

[JuniorTorres720]

My only gripe is that this is PPV. This is not a PPV fight and neither can they say it's because of Wilder's name. Yeah, he's got a name, but he's coming off major losses. This should have been free. I'm intrigued either way to see how Wilder performs. He did psychedelics and it altered his mindset. Here's a guy that used to be knocking people out without regard to their well being, breaking down because he had just knocked someone out. Wilder's a tremendous heavyweight because of his power, and his ability to walk down bigger guys. He' a small heavyweight as far as weight goes. But he was never a skilled fighter. He relied mostly on his power. Let's see if he can add new wrinkles to his game.

[Bennyleonard99]

Translation: Haymon and Finkel believe they can milk a few more million out of boxing fans. The Alabama puppet is back but we aint ever gonna fight AJ because it's a guaranteed KO loss!!

[STREET CLEANER]

if your one trick only works agaisnt Pbc bums it's probably not that good of a trick after all. The marketing was the trick

I know you hate the guy but is his right hand not legit? It was embarrassing to watch him trying to finish a fighter with that disorganized wind me attack he had.

[MulaKO]

My only gripe is that this is PPV. This is not a PPV fight and neither can they say it's because of Wilder's name. Yeah, he's got a name, but he's coming off major losses. This should have been free. I'm intrigued either way to see how Wilder performs. He did psychedelics and it altered his mindset. Here's a guy that used to be knocking people out without regard to their well being, breaking down because he had just knocked someone out. Wilder's a tremendous heavyweight because of his power, and his ability to walk down bigger guys. He' a small heavyweight as far as weight goes. But he was never a skilled fighter. He relied mostly on his power. Let's see if he can add new wrinkles to his game.

Add new wrinkles to his game you say ???
He hasn’t until now
Can’t teach an old dog new tricks and his time is up since he never added a single wrinkle to his game plan
Sometimes you just get what you deserve

[Willow The Wisp]

Translation: Haymon and Finkel believe they can milk a few more million out of boxing fans. The Alabama puppet is back but we aint ever gonna fight AJ because it's a guaranteed KO loss!!

A guaranteed loss for Joshua. For sure.

[Willow The Wisp]

Regardless of what occurs this week, Wilder should retire. A heavyweight is typically long done by the time they reach the age that Wilder will be on the 27th; 39 years, 8 months and 4 days.

Add to that, the fact that Wilder has fought 48 pro fights, lived in the top 3 in the Heavyweight Division for 7 years, and fought top ranked opponents for a decade.
Against the 100 best heavyweights of the 21st centrury, Wilder is 11-4-1 (10), which stacks up well against Tyson Fury's accomplishments, just 37 fights, going 10-2-1 (6), and Oleksandr Usyk's 23 total fights, just 7 of them at heavyweight; 6-0-0 (1); Joseph Parker with 39 fights, 11-3-0 (4), or even the fragile Anthony Joshua, who's fought just 32 fights, going 13-4-0 (10) against the top 100.

I make certain to give consideration to ALL of the metrics involved when rating or berating the accomplishments of a fighter, and I rate Wilder's work as outstanding.
His resume is Certainly lacking the top 10 opponents of Joshua or Parker; but not by as much as people propose, and you can get only so much mileage out of that fact when there are shocking, in-prime losses to accompany that metric.

An ugly national, ethnic or racial prejudice doesn't distort the valuation for me, thus I find myself too often comming to Wilder's defense on these threads; to counter the odd claims from what I presume are either Brits or bigots, because; who else would have anything bad to say about the most exciting, most dangerous big man to come along since a prime Mike Tyson, who had his flaws too.

Above anything to properly close out this Heavyweight era; I'd like to see Wilder vs Joshua, and see how Joshua does against another of the three long-term champions of his era. To date, he's yet to join in the fun alongside the others; Wilder and Fury. London, New York, or Riyadh; I am most certainIy there.

[Willow The Wisp]

Add new wrinkles to his game you say ???
He hasn’t until now
Can’t teach an old dog new tricks and his time is up since he never added a single wrinkle to his game plan
Sometimes you just get what you deserve

Why would Wilder want to add new wrinkles. He never caught a beating while he was young and in his prime. Tyson, Holyfield, Bowe, Vitali, Wladimir, Lennox, Joshua and Parker can't say the same.

[MulaKO]

Why would Wilder want to add new wrinkles. He never caught a beating while he was young and in his prime. Tyson, Holyfield, Bowe, Vitali, Wladimir, Lennox, Joshua and Parker can't say the same.

Sure he wouldn’t , why would he ?
I'll watch him get sparked again
Bombsquad lmao