Comments Thread For: Deontay Wilder-Alexander Povetkin Talks Going Well, So Far

[russogd3]

thats no excuse..someone tried to use that already...garcia was number 1 at 140 but crawford was on the p4p list...sergey was number 2 at 175 but he was on the p4p list..
povetkins is a on a streak like no other at HW if wilder stops he he did wat a more prime klit could not do..and im sure he wont hug him 200 times
scott, stiverne,duhap, splizka, and povetkin..thats nothing to be smirked at while he holds a ko% as high as it is...

LMAO... Let's look at what he's done currently, Stiverne is the only honorable W, and he was dehydrated to the point of hospitalization. Duhaupas is a cab driver, and Splizka is a b class fighter who is a tailor made victim for Wilder. Scott should be banned from the sport for the embarrassing dive he took against Wilder, it was utterly disgraceful.

Wilder is not worthy of a P4P ranking until be beats Povetkin and Fury. Which I doubt he can do.

[vitali1999]

the only way it doesnt happen is if povetkin ask for another fight within that time frame..he holds the cards along witht he WBC..wilder has to comply to keep his belt..u should learn how boxing works

Wilder would have been stripped January 29th 2014 if he didn't have to fight a mandatory. You should learn how boxing works. Fury was stripped 2 weeks after winning the belt, Wilder will be on over a year after this fight without fighting a mandatory. Pick up a book and read the TRUTH

[Pigeons]

LMAO... Let's look at what he's done currently, Stiverne is the only honorable W, and he was dehydrated to the point of hospitalization. Duhaupas is a cab driver, and Splizka is a b class fighter who is a tailor made victim for Wilder. Scott should be banned from the sport for the embarrassing dive he took against Wilder, it was utterly disgraceful.

Wilder is not worthy of a P4P ranking until be beats Povetkin and Fury. Which I doubt he can do.

You seem biased. Wilder defeated Stiverne, who was ranked as the #3 heavyweight contender at the time. For comparison's sake, Golovkin has never defeated a top-3 contender and he is rated #3 P4P by the Ring.

http://www.tbrb.org/2015/10/10/13-january-2015/

[russogd3]

You seem biased. Wilder defeated Stiverne, who was ranked as the #3 heavyweight contender at the time. For comparison's sake, Golovkin has never defeated a top-3 contender and he is rated #3 P4P by the Ring.

http://www.tbrb.org/2015/10/10/13-january-2015/

I gave him credit for the Stiverne fight, I said it was honorable win. I just mentioned that he was so dehydrated that he was hospitalized after the fight. http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id...vegas-hospital

You really can't praise anything else he's done as a pro, let alone his title reign. He was rocked by a journeyman in Molina, and had a war with Duhapas, a guy who was ranked somewhere in the 30s if I'm not wrong.

I really want to like and support Wilder, I just need so see him fight at least 2 more legit opponents (which will make 3 total including Stiverne). I don't even need to see him dominate, I just want to see him beat a couple legit guys and look good, al la Fury and Povetkin. At which point I think he would be a legit P4P fighter.

[russogd3]

Golovkin has never defeated a top-3 contender and he is rated #3 P4P by the Ring.

http://www.tbrb.org/2015/10/10/13-january-2015/

I think that little g's P4P ranking by the ring is a complete joke. He has yet to fight a legit dangerous opponent. Who's the best guy he's fought? Lemieux? Lemieux is a b class fighter who's signature career win was a war against N'Dam. I don't think that railroading bums and b class fighters warrants a P4P ranking. Glovokin ducking Ward after calling out Froch, Chaves, and "anyone from 154-168" proved that he doesn't want to fight the elite fighters. Glovokin wants to take the path of least resistance, i.e., winning titles from journeyman and winning vacant titles.

[tiliheels]

Wilder would have been stripped January 29th 2014 if he didn't have to fight a mandatory. You should learn how boxing works. Fury was stripped 2 weeks after winning the belt, Wilder will be on over a year after this fight without fighting a mandatory. Pick up a book and read the TRUTH

wilder won his belt in january 2015...and u say he would have been stripped a year prior to that? ouch...see how wrong you are? he was the mandatory..and his negotiations didnt start until the summer when povetkin declared that he would not be ready if wilder stay active bc he would not stay active bc he's lazy and likely cycling off of ped's

[Pigeons]

I gave him credit for the Stiverne fight, I said it was honorable win. I just mentioned that he was so dehydrated that he was hospitalized after the fight. http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id...vegas-hospital

You really can't praise anything else he's done as a pro, let alone his title reign. He was rocked by a journeyman in Molina, and had a war with Duhapas, a guy who was ranked somewhere in the 30s if I'm not wrong.

I really want to like and support Wilder, I just need so see him fight at least 2 more legit opponents (which will make 3 total including Stiverne). I don't even need to see him dominate, I just want to see him beat a couple legit guys and look good, al la Fury and Povetkin. At which point I think he would be a legit P4P fighter.

Yes, he took one solid punch from Molina that made him hesitate. And Duhaupaus gave him a shiner. Long before that Sconiers apparently dropped him. He was also dropped and stopped as an amateur.

Fury has also been dropped twice very cleanly as a pro. Once by a bum and then by a cruiserweight. But it didn't stop Fury from taking the lineal strap off one of the top heavyweights of all time.

It's not about the struggles, it's about your response to that adversity. So far, Wilder has exceeded expectations.

[tiliheels]

LMAO... Let's look at what he's done currently, Stiverne is the only honorable W, and he was dehydrated to the point of hospitalization. Duhaupas is a cab driver, and Splizka is a b class fighter who is a tailor made victim for Wilder. Scott should be banned from the sport for the embarrassing dive he took against Wilder, it was utterly disgraceful.

Wilder is not worthy of a P4P ranking until be beats Povetkin and Fury. Which I doubt he can do.

he took a huge left hand to the temple...scott was also floored by a temple shot in his last fight in which he got off the canvas to beat a top 10 hw in tony thompson

stiverne got fat after wilder that is his fault no wilder..duhap was off a upset win over manuel charr..so that is credible as a voluntary defense. and he's a big hw.

[russogd3]

he took a huge left hand to the temple...scott was also floored by a temple shot in his last fight in which he got off the canvas to beat a top 10 hw in tony thompson

stiverne got fat after wilder that is his fault no wilder..duhap was off a upset win over manuel charr..so that is credible as a voluntary defense. and he's a big hw.

I really hope your being sarcastic about the Scott dive. If not, you must be living in an alternate universe. I didn't see any "huge left hand". It was a glancing right that slid off of Scott's gloves and didn't even come close to connecting cleanly that "knocked him out". You need to come back to reality and realize that Scott took a dive and should be banned from the sport. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jws9K_RTCy4

Duhap fought tough, but that doesn't mean that he's not a cab driver. I think it says more about Wilder's ability that he had a war with Duhap, than it does about Duhap being a legit HW.

[russogd3]

Yes, he took one solid punch from Molina that made him hesitate. And Duhaupaus gave him a shiner. Long before that Sconiers apparently dropped him. He was also dropped and stopped as an amateur.

Fury has also been dropped twice very cleanly as a pro. Once by a bum and then by a cruiserweight. But it didn't stop Fury from taking the lineal strap off one of the top heavyweights of all time.

It's not about the struggles, it's about your response to that adversity. So far, Wilder has exceeded expectations.

Look, I'm not taking anything away from Wilder, I just think he still has a lot to prove. He definitely has the potential, and I'm hoping he can pan out. It just a feeling I have deep down inside that tells me that when he starts facing legit opponents, he'll be exposed. But I give him credit for staying active and wanting big fights, even though I question his antics and real desire to face Povetkin.

And lets be honest here, Fury taking the lineal strap of of Wlad was not an impressive showing. It was actually a pretty pathetic fight by both guys. Fury won, yes, and he gets credit for that. But Wlad is like 60 years old, and looked like he has completely lost his ability to pull the trigger. It wasn't anything close to a convincing outclassing that proved he was the best in the division.