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Keep something in mind: Wilder, much like Haye is not really that good, or accomplished. He has his moments, his punching is getting better, definitely more consistant. But a smart evasive strategy could be trouble and it has nothng to do with Bellew. Its just the state of the division.
Everyone has become such a size queen that people forget that we are not talking about relentless fighters with experience. When a guy like Foster went up and fought heavy weights and came a cropper against Ali for example, or when Archie Moore fought Marciano, these were excellent champions.
More recently, guys like Holyfield, who had the work rate of a middle weight, and Tyson, who really was so dangerous that he did in fact hurt Michael Spinks... a great light heavyweight, were terrors! One could say to a crafty blown up cruiser...the words of Bela Lugosi "beware, Beware! Beware!!"
But guys like Haye, Parker, Wilder, have a lot of weaknesses to exploit. I actually think Parker is the most complete of the three frankly. Its not inconceivable that even a smaller, defensive minded fighter, who can avoid a bigger man, might have some success.
People get drawn in and tend to forget that an ambush fighter who fights maybe once a year, is not a ruthless juggernaught laying waste to opponents (Haye)... Bellew could even make a fight of it against another supposed destroyer like Wilder...as much as that seems inconceviable and it has nothing to do with Bellow.
Everyone has become such a size queen that people forget that we are not talking about relentless fighters with experience. When a guy like Foster went up and fought heavy weights and came a cropper against Ali for example, or when Archie Moore fought Marciano, these were excellent champions.
More recently, guys like Holyfield, who had the work rate of a middle weight, and Tyson, who really was so dangerous that he did in fact hurt Michael Spinks... a great light heavyweight, were terrors! One could say to a crafty blown up cruiser...the words of Bela Lugosi "beware, Beware! Beware!!"
But guys like Haye, Parker, Wilder, have a lot of weaknesses to exploit. I actually think Parker is the most complete of the three frankly. Its not inconceivable that even a smaller, defensive minded fighter, who can avoid a bigger man, might have some success.
People get drawn in and tend to forget that an ambush fighter who fights maybe once a year, is not a ruthless juggernaught laying waste to opponents (Haye)... Bellew could even make a fight of it against another supposed destroyer like Wilder...as much as that seems inconceviable and it has nothing to do with Bellow.
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