Comments Thread For: Deontay Wilder Title Defense Set For July 16 in Birmingham

[eco1]

arreola KO'ing bum squad would be the best thing to happen in boxing for a long long time.
i would die laughing.

me too.

at this pace we will see bum squad fight madonna soon

[Boxing Logic]

......ever heard of kell brook, gennady golovkin?


americans arent the only fighters fighting nobodies in defense of their titles

Do you not a have a brain that is capable of understanding the differences between things?

Kell Brook and Deontay Wilder fight nobodies because they want to fight nobodies, and because they make no effort to fight the best in their division. That's why they get the blame.

GGG fights nobodies most of the time, except David Lemieux who is way better than some people think and either the #2 or #3 middleweight in the world right now, and Martin Murray who should have been the lineal champion when GGG beat him, because the best guys in his division are ducking him. That's why those guys get the blame, and GGG gets the credit.

Understand? It's not that complicated. Of course everyone's resume sucks in boxing right now, that's because no one is fighting each other, because 90% of the boxers are duckers right now. But when you equate the 90% who are ducking, with the 10% who are being ducked, and you're too thoughtless or biased to make that distinction, you excuse the 90%. You blame the victim. You say it's GGG's fault for being ducked, which takes the blame and the pressure off the people actually ducking him.

Same with Wilder. Making excuses like "GGG has a bad resume too" is just excusing his ducking. GGG at least fought the guy who should have been lineal. Wilder could have fought the lineal in his division but ducked. GGG also fought the #2 middleweight at that time before Jacobs beat Quillin. Wilder never fought the #2 heavyweight in his division (his best opponent is Stiverne who was maybe 5th best).

More importantly than resumé, GGG actually calls out the best in his division, and is dying to fight any of the best guys. Wilder stays quiet, avoids the best, and seems very happy to keep fighting the likes of Arreola. That's a huge difference between the two and why GGG is beloved by boxing fans while Wilder is considered the most protected and overhyped heavyweight paper champion in the history of paper champions in the division.

[paulf]

Whats the point of having rankings if you're just going to insert random unranked dudes whenever the champs want a soft touch?

I love Arreola but **** this fight. This kinda **** is what is wrong with boxing. Chris should be fighting other solid fighters in fun, action packed heavyweight bouts. Plenty of great fights for him still. Using him as an easy opponent in this fashion is disgusting.

[Dat]

Arreola?!? Ustinov is better, to prepare for Fury. Or unify with Joshua.

[Box Up!]

Birmingham, Alabama. Where folk like to burn people on stakes and eat good ol blueberry pie, just like momma used to make.

Weird American ****s.

[removed]

Povetkin didn't think so...hence the juicing.

If he couldn't beat the Slow,fragile, and timid Vlad...he sure as hell wasn't beating Wilder.

That slow Russian was going to get Baptized(KO'd and taken out on a stretcher).

Bum Squad isn't going to baptize anyone lol. He was getting comfortably outboxed by a midget football hooligan in his last fight.

There's a reason why Wilder fights bums, he is one himself.

[RomanReigns]

Wilder via KO in the 6th round.

[Kigali]

Bum Squad isn't going to baptize anyone lol. He was getting comfortably outboxed by a midget football hooligan in his last fight.

There's a reason why Wilder fights bums, he is one himself.

That midget got taken out on a stretcher.

Povetkin got outboxed by Marco Huck and needed a gift decision.

Povetkin was juicing for a bum.
That says a lot about that Russian trash.

[Scipio2009]

Honestly I didn't even notice him on the list. That would be another pretty easy fight to make. Aerrola is still serving his marijuana suspension?

He's not rated by the WBC, but I'd imagine that the marijuana suspension is done with.

[Fury4daWIN]

If Wilder picks Arreola that's going to look really bad on him.

Wilder and his team earned a lot of goodwill in the aftermath of the Povetkin business, but it's like they're determined to piss it all away with some of their behaviour in the aftermath. Now they're looking to fight an unranked punchbag, coming off a string of losses and a failed drugs test in Wilder's hometown and call it a title defence, after already receiving huge criticism in the recent past for fighting weak opposition. I don't expect Pulev or someone like that, but there are better challengers out there, Travis Kaufmann for one, Gerald Washington for another. Neither guy is great, but at least they didn't lose their last fight or get busted for pissing dirty.

Wilder is going to look like a stone cold hypocrite if he picks this guy after all the song and dance he made about Povetkin. So drug use is fine, so long as it's recreational and my opponent is a bum. Great look there, Deontay.