Comments Thread For: The Deontay Wilder Conundrum

[Tom Cruise]

Let's be honest, even on regular Showtime it'll be lucky to break 1m viewers right now. He's never going to be PPV over there so his US fights would principally be financed by TV licensing fees, and they aren't paying more than about $3m for boxing in the current climate

However, if it's just a sort of bucket list thing for him to have a big fight in America then I can understand that

In terms of sponsors as well though. Joshua/his team are obsessed with his brand. Getting that brand out in America could be huge down the line if he goes on to be the fighter they think he is.

[hammyholdup]

Wilder is goofy and vague and quite dense and confused alot

Clueless Wilder doesn't have a boxing career but is more a pet for promoters who put Wilder in meaningless fights no one cares about. Not until Wilder fights Wlad or Joshua or ******* Tyson Fury will there be a wilder career in boxing. Fights in Alabama are meaningless and ******. Wilder is more of sideshow clown a dimwit being manipulated by whitey and also a slave on the boxing pimps al slimy haymon's plantation. Feel sorry for the Wilder who just doesn't get it? DUH?

[Kigali]

Clueless Wilder doesn't have a boxing career but is more a pet for promoters who put Wilder in meaningless fights no one cares about. Not until Wilder fights Wlad or Joshua or ******* Tyson Fury will there be a wilder career in boxing. Fights in Alabama are meaningless and ******. Wilder is more of sideshow clown a dimwit being manipulated by whitey and also a slave on the boxing pimps al slimy haymon's plantation. Feel sorry for the Wilder who just doesn't get it? DUH?

Well at least ya'll have Andy Ruiz and Arreola

[BWC]

All a matter of perspective. Personally, I believe humans evolve much quicker than most people realize and the best in the world of pretty much any sport in 2017 would destroy the best in the world from 1997. So I don't think it's a question of the division being devoid of talent. AJ & Wilder clearly have talent and if they keep winning, they'll be heading towards a massive showdown.

The problem is the four belt era has made things so difficult to follow and has made ducking fighters so easy that the public stops caring. Not to mention everybody knew the two best fighters in the world were Vitali Klitschko & Wladimir Klitschko, who refused to fight each other. Why follow a sport when the two best are never going to face each other.

But if AJ can take care of Klitschko, and we move forward into the post Klitschko era, we have several undefeated champions, all of whom truly want to unify. So I do think the division is improving.

WBC/WBO champion Wilder vs WBA/IBF champion Joshua, undefeated vs undefeated, to crown the first undisputed champion since 1999 and the first grand slam champion ever is such a massive fight it's not even funny.

So I'm very optimistic about the heavyweight division right now.

It really boggles the mind on how big that fight could be. Just need the American fight fans to quit listening to the Boxing establishment that has always been against Wilder and get on board with the best American HW since Holyfield hung em up

[nycsmooth]

A garbage fight and if it was in my backyard I wouldn't go out the back door to watch it ...2 average-at-best contenders with a meaningless belt @ stake...

[SN!PER]

A garbage fight and if it was in my backyard I wouldn't go out the back door to watch it ...2 average-at-best contenders with a meaningless belt @ stake...

Man I heard B.J. Flores was looking for you lol. He wants to spar.

[IRONCHINHAGLER]

Wilder may b well compensated for fighting can after can....but he has himself and Haymon to thank for being the one of the most insignificant American HW champs ever!!!

[removed]

Wilder was only going to Moscow because he was forced to, and he tried to hardest to get out of it. Plus Povetkin is a midget.


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[hammyholdup]

Well at least ya'll have Andy Ruiz and Arreola

both great opponents for the dim witted hayseed clueless Wilder.

[Sweet Jones]

notice that the texas cow boy didn't deny it . . .

deontayduckus wilderquackus? successful human beings don't talk like that.

Well said.