Comments Thread For: Frank Warren: Fury-Wilder Winner Is World's Best Heavyweight

[Kiowhatta]

I am just wondering his people are PRAISING AJ for fighting Pov yet say Wilder is a ducker even though he signed to fight Pov FIRST....

IN RUSSIA NO LESS!!!!

Somehow Wilder is criticisized because Pov FAILED HIS DRUG TEST......

TWICE!!!!

Everyone just skips over this fact.

Wilder wanted to fight Pov. He failed a drug test. He then signed to fight Ortiz. He failed a drug test.

You say he hasn't fought anyone like he was the ONE FAILING THE TESTS!!!

Strange!!!

Wilder also declared before these fights that he has intimate knowledge of who was clean and who wasn't - so it begs the question: Why take fights against opponents you know are dirty?

Just asking the question is all, not trolling, respect.

[BLASTER1]

If WILDER beats Fury he becomes the lineal heavyweight champion of the world.
If Fury wins he retains that title plus earns a belt.
Winner has to fight winner of AJ/Povetkin.
Whoever wins the last fight is lineal and unified heavy weight champion of the world.
Pretty easy guys.

[jas]

cant argue with this

duckers like joshua forgo the label of number 1 .

its joshuas team that is avoiding wilder though. fighters for the most part , joshua included, will fight anyone

[Pennsauken1]

Joshua’s wins have come against Carlos Takam, Dillian Whyte [injured], Eric Molina, Dominic Breazeale and Joseph Parker. Those aren’t good enough heavyweights for Joshua to be seen as the best fighter in the division.

[Pennsauken1]

Joshua struggled badly in beating Wladimir Klitschko in 2017 in stopping him in the 11th round. Wladimir knocked Joshua down in the 6th, and likely would have stopped him if he’d tried to knock him out.

[stellen]

If WILDER beats Fury he becomes the lineal heavyweight champion of the world.
If Fury wins he retains that title plus earns a belt.
Winner has to fight winner of AJ/Povetkin.
Whoever wins the last fight is lineal and unified heavy weight champion of the world.
Pretty easy guys.

Just how long do you have to be out the game for PED abuse and still keep your pretend lineal title? The british authorities banned fury for 2 years and he is still lineal now 3 years later? If he loses to this taxi driver he fights on saturday is pianeta the new lineal? GTFOH.

[BLASTER1]

Just how long do you have to be out the game for PED abuse and still keep your pretend lineal title? The british authorities banned fury for 2 years and he is still lineal now 3 years later? If he loses to this taxi driver he fights on saturday is pianeta the new lineal? GTFOH.

You are right.
Yes he will become lineal and good for him if he does.
He will most definitely get a good pay day for his next fight but i don't think he would be holding it long.

[Noelanthony]

Joshua struggled badly in beating Wladimir Klitschko in 2017 in stopping him in the 11th round. Wladimir knocked Joshua down in the 6th, and likely would have stopped him if he’d tried to knock him out.

Wilder also struggled heavily with his hardest opponent. Could easily have been stopped . Was concussed so badily that he needed to be checked at the beginning of the 8th and was behind on the score cards but he got the job done as did we .So worry about your own performances will you, that’s a good boy

[davefromvancouv]

Just how long do you have to be out the game for PED abuse and still keep your pretend lineal title? The british authorities banned fury for 2 years and he is still lineal now 3 years later? If he loses to this taxi driver he fights on saturday is pianeta the new lineal? GTFOH.

Yes. That's how lineal titles work. You can only lose it in the ring or by "officially" retiring. Once you retire, the consensus #1 and #2 fight for the top spot.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lineal_boxing_world_champions

[davefromvancouv]

Wilder was the WBC champion before Fury beat Klitschko for the lineal and unified titles, and well before Martin, Joshua, Klitschko and Parker fought each other for Fury's belts. Joshua missed his opportunity to prove he was the best heavyweight in the world when he chose to fight Povetkin over Wilder.

Fury is still the lineal champion and he's defending his title against Pianeta this Saturday. The Wilder unification is then slated for November. Joshua has WBA, IBF and WBO mandatories until late 2019. Both Fury and Wilder are not interested in Joshua's negotiation tactics, so fans can either follow the lineal fights or the Joshua fights for the rest of this year and all of 2019.

Maybe Joshua gets back into the lineal mix in early 2020, but he is no longer available to fight the top heavyweights for the foreseeable future. That's just Wilder and Fury...