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Comments Thread For: Photos: Deontay Wilder-Johann Duhaupas PBC Presser
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Right up there with
Carl Tunney vs Fred Dempsey
Sammy Louis vs Schvengie Schmeling
Terrence Ali vs Mavis Frazier
Biff Tyson vs Slim Ed HolyfieldComment
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Can't believe they're gonna televise this ****e. What happened to his mandatory against povetkin??? If there is no money in facing your mandatory, or you've defended it loads of times and are transitioning weight classes to find the massive paydays elsewhere then I can understand why some champions don't. But this is wilders second defence.....and he still hasn't upped his level of competition even as a champion. how dare this ***** ***git to even talk big. What an ass clown.......is this what black American boxing has become? - I cam see why a lot of yank fight fans have shifted Iver to mmaComment
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The night Wilder fought Stiverne, I had a ton of respect for how well he did in the fight and then his last two opponents???? Respect right out the window!You have to skip over a ton of top fighters to find these guys!!!!Comment
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Team Wilder thinks that Wilder has the potential to be a great heavyweight, but they also know that he only started boxing as an amateur at the age of 21 (will be turning 30 in October), deliberately kept the training wheels on him through the first four years of his pro career (Kelvin Price was the first guy that team Wilder put Wilder in with who had maybe a pulse), and then slowly stepped him up in anticipation of a possible title shot, going ahead with thw WBC mandatory when they were confident that Wilder was ready for the shot.
Wilder picked up the belt, celebrated getting the belt, but still kept his eyes on and acknowledged that Wladimir Klitschko was still "the man to beat".
Wilder is an acknowledged work in progress, barely having had an amateur career and competing in a division when 30 is only the start of your prime (Wladimir Klitschko, on the downside but still the top heavyweight doing it, is 39 years of age and having fought, pro or amateur, for nearly 25 years now), who is getting better with every fight.
Gennady Golovkin is 33 years of age, has at least been fighting as at least top amateur since 2000 and fought 350 amateur fights, and has been a professional fighter for a decade now, yet you can't look at the man's resume and say, with a straight face, the caliber of opposition that he's faced has blown away the level of guys that Wilder has been put in with (made worse if Team Wilder is able to lock in the Povetkin fight this year).
Yet Team Golovkin and his fanbase have the gall to trumpet the man as if he's proven himself to be God's gift to the sport.Comment
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No one in Wilder's camp is running around, trumpeting Wilder as arguably the best heavyweight to ever live, or a fighter who will absolutely crush any fighter even near him in weight.
Team Wilder thinks that Wilder has the potential to be a great heavyweight, but they also know that he only started boxing as an amateur at the age of 21 (will be turning 30 in October), deliberately kept the training wheels on him through the first four years of his pro career (Kelvin Price was the first guy that team Wilder put Wilder in with who had maybe a pulse), and then slowly stepped him up in anticipation of a possible title shot, going ahead with thw WBC mandatory when they were confident that Wilder was ready for the shot.
Wilder picked up the belt, celebrated getting the belt, but still kept his eyes on and acknowledged that Wladimir Klitschko was still "the man to beat".
Wilder is an acknowledged work in progress, barely having had an amateur career and competing in a division when 30 is only the start of your prime (Wladimir Klitschko, on the downside but still the top heavyweight doing it, is 39 years of age and having fought, pro or amateur, for nearly 25 years now), who is getting better with every fight.
Gennady Golovkin is 33 years of age, has at least been fighting as at least top amateur since 2000 and fought 350 amateur fights, and has been a professional fighter for a decade now, yet you can't look at the man's resume and say, with a straight face, the caliber of opposition that he's faced has blown away the level of guys that Wilder has been put in with (made worse if Team Wilder is able to lock in the Povetkin fight this year).
Yet Team Golovkin and his fanbase have the gall to trumpet the man as if he's proven himself to be God's gift to the sport.Comment
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they aren't doing the same thing. ggg tried to fight martinez, cotto, sturm, lee, quillin, pirog, soliman, ndam, etc...but they turned him down. wilder hasn't reached out to any good fighters.Comment
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