Comments Thread For: Wilder: Stiverne Will Be Easy, Needs To Beat Me First!

[Box-Office]

Wilder has never been tagged in his pro career and has never faced adversity. Stiverne has the tools to weather the storm early and take Wilder out.

[Box-Office]

I think it's safe to say that Stiverne will be Wilder's biggest test to date, but I don't think people are looking at Stiverne's record closely enough: Wilder, however unproven, is going to be a big test for Stiverne too.

Stiverne's wins over Ray Austin and Arreola > Wilder's career.

[richardt]

Like I said in another thread: Too many Boxing fans are wined, dined, and seduced by unbeaten fighters with a lot of KO's. There are serious questions about Wilder's chin, legs, and certainly his stamina. The worse thing management can do is put their fighter in fights that do not go more than 4 rounds because that sets the fighter up for guaranteed failure by not developing stamina which is critical to long-term success and this tells me they are obviously protecting him for some reason. I suspect it comes down to his chin and legs which will fail him, maybe more so his stamina. He has a serious flaw and they want to cash out before he is exposed. That's why he hasn't fought anyone worthy of his top contender status.

They did the same thing with David Lemieux and I told people what happens when Lemieux goes past a few rounds and the guy in front of him hasn't fallen yet? The Rubio fight was an obvious setup that went wrong because Rubio had been stopped 2-3 times.....but Rubio didn't get the memo. I have seen the Lemieux situation played out more times than I can even count over the years. You would think by now in this day of age, no management would ever match a guy up where he has not fought past the 4th round to get to this "level". It's insane, but they are acting like they are protecting something vulnerable in Wilder. Some area, be it his chin, legs, or stamina will fail him big time but they are hoping to cash out before then. Every fighter that has ever lived, no matter how big a puncher faces guys that will barely flinch from their biggest shot, and then what? The deep blue sea is very deep after 4 rounds and because he is at this level of contender status, not having gone 4, 6, 8, or 10 full rounds, he cannot possibly have great stamina, it has to be built up over years, over distance fights, especially at heavyweight where the legs get tired sooner than in the lighter weight fighters. And he has no distance fights, not even a full 4 rounds. Recipe for disaster, BIG TIME. Once he is knocked out, he will still get fights but it will always come down to whether he goes or the other guy goes first, Russian roulette, two guys each with a bullet.