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Wilder sure thinks alot of himself now doesn't he? I see absolutely zero indication he's America's darling like he thinks he is. Most fight fans can see holes all over his technique. Can't wait to see the destruction Povetkin causes this no-hoper.Comment
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We need ***** at one end of the arena and ***** at the other. Actually, if that were the case I might root for Povetkin. Funny enough, I think Trump would actually attend a fight like this. I've heard him make 3 boxing analogies in the media this week alone.Comment
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American's not supporting Wilder has nothing to do with his technique and everything to do with his colour.
Mayweather has all the technique in the world, but Americans root for foreign fighters against him, and claim it's because he's boring and doesn't get knockouts.
Wilder is exciting and gets knockouts, but American's don't support him and claim he got no technique?
Double standards, so what's the real issue?
Obviously their skin colour.Comment
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Wilder sure thinks alot of himself now doesn't he? I see absolutely zero indication he's America's darling like he thinks he is. Most fight fans can see holes all over his technique. Can't wait to see the destruction Povetkin causes this no-hoper.
Could be skin color, who knows. Floydie though, that's a whole different issue. He's hated because he's a ducker and a cheat with the IVs. That's why people watched his fights... to hopefully see him lose. People aren't fooled as much anymore by the commentators gushing over him.
What the general consensus is on Wilder could go any way you could imagine. I'm just saying his technique is crapola first few rounds, and I've thought from the beginning that was why he wasn't as much of a big shot in the sport as he thinks he is. I personally think he's arrogant, and can't even correct his glaring mistakes. Maybe I'm wrong, but that seems like a good enough reason to not be a fan. Or for that matter, maybe your reason could be correct.
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Mohamed Ali had technique, knockouts, and excitement, but everybody hated his guts when he was active. Roy Jones had all three just like Ali, but was not liked at all and had people shatting all over him. Mike Tyson, etc etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by PunchyPotorff View Post
Wilder sure thinks alot of himself now doesn't he? I see absolutely zero indication he's America's darling like he thinks he is. Most fight fans can see holes all over his technique. Can't wait to see the destruction Povetkin causes this no-hoper.
Could be skin color, who knows. Floydie though, that's a whole different issue. He's hated because he's a ducker and a cheat with the IVs. That's why people watched his fights... to hopefully see him lose. People aren't fooled as much anymore by the commentators gushing over him.
What the general consensus is on Wilder could go any way you could imagine. I'm just saying his technique is crapola first few rounds, and I've thought from the beginning that was why he wasn't as much of a big shot in the sport as he thinks he is. I personally think he's arrogant, and can't even correct his glaring mistakes. Maybe I'm wrong, but that seems like a good enough reason to not be a fan. Or for that matter, maybe your reason could be correct.
It obviously isn't just race, but race is quite a significant chunk of it.
Your claims that Wilder's tech are crap first few rounds are also not quite substantiated. Why?
Because this is a guy who 97 percent of his fights have ended in 3-4 rounds, so how can you say justifiably say his tech is weak in the first 3-4 rounds?
Because of Eric Molina? If you were objective, you would realise the obvious reason for what happened in that fight. Wilder barely used his right hand in that fight, in fact, he in fact threw more jabs and left hooks than any of his other fights in that fight. Why? Because his right hand was far from hundred percent. It was his first fight since he injured his right hand against Stirvirne, an injury so serious he had to have surgery and had pins inserted into his hand. He was as a result ruled out for six months because of that injury, but there he was fighting Molina long before he was supposed to be in the ring, and it showed because he refused to pull the trigger until he was caught with that punch, and even afterwards seemed hesitant to throw that right hand. You can go rewatch the match and see, it's blatantly obvious.
I watched the fight with two casual fans (my mom and girlfriend), and both asked me the same question "why this guy only using his left hand?", yet the commentators and media analyts (haters) failed to notice something so obvious, or to even mention to the casual audience that the guy is coming from a long term injury that required surgery on his right hand.
There is also the fact that Wilder himself pointed out before the Spilka bout that his right hand was 65 percent against Molina and 95 against Dehaupus.
The Spilka fight only proved that Wilder sucks against slick southpaws. Spilka's head and hip movement was insane in that fight and his southpaw stance gave Wilder nightmares, but Povetkin has NONE of those three qualities, so that fight is no indication as to what will happen in the Wilder-Povetkin bout.Comment
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If your nationalism is based on boxing it probably isn't sincere. I don't blame Wilder for trying to sell the fight on the basis of patriotism but it isn't gonna have much of an effect. Sports and patriotism only mix when there is greater symbolism and significance behind it (ie 1980 hockey olympics). Faking patriotism because of a boxing match is pretty silly.
I just hope the fight isn't a complete mismatch, one way or the other. Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if either fighter outclasses the other.Comment
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you are exactly right. I am sickened to what America has become and you left out ******** running wildComment
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Hope Wilder pulls it off, he's a great personality for the division. Bomb Squad all day.Comment
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