Comments Thread For: Deontay Wilder Starts Slow, Stops Gerald Washington in Five

[HarvardBlue]

Wilder has flaws but he is skilled enough to be a good HW. People seem to forget he fought welll against Stiverne. Unfortunately he seems to fight down to his opponents especially when fighting at home. The criticism would be warranted if he lost or was in trouble at any point in the fight. He won with a KO. What more should he have done? (Rhetorical).

[1hourRun]

right...who do you work for? "stunning performance?" Holy cow... nobody is believing that garbage.

I cant remember a HW champion in recent years give away one or two rounds against a dangerous world class opponent out of sheer absolute supreme confidence in his abilities that victory was his when he deemed it fit to seize....Mike Tyson on the other hand had to really work for his KOs but look at Deontay Wilder....EFFORTLESSLY! assuring to preserve his injured hand and torn bicep....he executed a perfect game plan -- would Mike Tyson be able to do this? I think not.

[Karoriori]

Really hope Deontay is dumb enough to fight Parker. Parker a granite immovable chin will school sloppy Beyonce. Hughie Fury much bigger challenge for Parker

[yammy25]

Wilder has flaws but he is skilled enough to be a good HW. People seem to forget he fought welll against Stiverne. Unfortunately he seems to fight down to his opponents especially when fighting at home. The criticism would be warranted if he lost or was in trouble at any point in the fight. He won with a KO. What more should he have done? (Rhetorical).

Well.. as WBC heavyweight champion he could have had more than one round on the scorecards against a former footballer who was just gifted a #10 ranking by the time he sparked him.

**** me.. KO or not if its acceptable for the man wearing the "ultimate belt of prestige" to be outboxed to that degree by an opponent of that calibre then this sport is ****ed.

[Rip Chudd]

If I'm Anthony Joshua I'd be chomping at the bit to get this Wladimir fight done with so I can fight Wilder. Joshua can beat him just with a jab alone. No need to even throw the right hand, just feint with it as Wilder bites on every feint he sees

[redmish]

A fight between him and Prime Mike Tyson would be epic. I think that's a true 50/50 fight.

Please. Tyson in his prime would smash wilder to pieces. Imagine him coming under them long arms throwing bombs.

[-PBP-]

Deontay Wilder.....just WOW! didn't even try knew all along when he touched Washington it was going to be over...this mans power is something to behold. I never seen such dominance....I'm lost for words....was Klitshko this dominant? did Washington land anything clean that trouble Wilder? unbelievable, stunning performance.

It's hilarious. He gives away round after round and you start thinking "uh oh"...then in a split second it's lights out! Game set match.

[Motorcity Cobra]

scorecards before the ko

Scorecards before stoppage of Wilder-Washington pic.twitter.com/wg14gDgxAB

— Rian Scalia (@rian5ca) February 26, 2017

[Andrij]

Wilder the first time he steps in the ring with a quality opponent will get his arse knocked out.
Ortiz , decapitates him . Josua and Klitshko put him to sleep.

And this is exactly why Team Wilder avoids Top 10 opponents like Ortiz for 2 years now.They even found an excuse not to face Ortiz because of his past.But what happens if Ortiz becomes WBC mandatory ? Will Wilder vacate his title then ?

[OnePunch]

They are on a time restriction on FOX you know because of other programing.

man GTFOH with that nonsense. It was a 12 round fight that ended in FIVE. Im pretty sure they could have taken 30 seconds to show replays of the stoppage.