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Fuck me, these Windmillers. 
Wilder has had forty - FORTY - fights. And only three of them (correct me if I'm wrong) featured a boxer ranked in the top ten. That's 37 fights that featured cans.
This is not some guy who takes on all-comers, he fought an aged Ortiz (and got hurt) and then took on Fury after nearly a three-year layoff. Fury clearly wasn't 100%, but he STILL got lucky to keep his belt.
As Shakespeare said, two fights against people with a pulse does not a summer make. The guy's been a pro for a DECADE. But now all of a sudden - because of the last eleven months - he's suddenly Mr. Excitement, prepared to take on the best?
This is the guy who sold out his upcoming fight in just a few hours and regularly does 70,000+ stadiums, you know that, right?
I love the way the UK is a "comfort zone", when the guy's doing 90,000 stadiums and a million PPV over there.
The old "they have to come to the States" doesn't work in the current heavyweight climate.
The guy who most people in America don't even know, who can't sell out 17,000 seat stadiums? Canny old Tyson, to think of that.
Fuck me.
Do you comprehend what "has had" means? Yes, Miller is a crappy (albeit fairly legitimate, as he's ranked 9th by the ring) opponent, but I can take that as a promotional tool.
I don't have a particular "dog" in this race, btw, it's just that I'm hearing a distorted narrative whereby every day in NSB a guy who just got a gift draw and has fought cans in front of small crowds is suddenly some all-conquering high flyer who's got people running scared with $50 billion trillion squillion offer that apparently was real.
Wilder has had forty - FORTY - fights. And only three of them (correct me if I'm wrong) featured a boxer ranked in the top ten. That's 37 fights that featured cans.
This is not some guy who takes on all-comers, he fought an aged Ortiz (and got hurt) and then took on Fury after nearly a three-year layoff. Fury clearly wasn't 100%, but he STILL got lucky to keep his belt.
As Shakespeare said, two fights against people with a pulse does not a summer make. The guy's been a pro for a DECADE. But now all of a sudden - because of the last eleven months - he's suddenly Mr. Excitement, prepared to take on the best?
So much so that he is now forcing Anthony Joshua out of his comfort zone of England, to travel globally and to the United States to stage fights here for fear of Wilder's profile surpassing his on a global scale.
I love the way the UK is a "comfort zone", when the guy's doing 90,000 stadiums and a million PPV over there.
The old "they have to come to the States" doesn't work in the current heavyweight climate.
The guy who most people in America don't even know, who can't sell out 17,000 seat stadiums? Canny old Tyson, to think of that.
Originally posted by Anorak
Do you comprehend what "has had" means? Yes, Miller is a crappy (albeit fairly legitimate, as he's ranked 9th by the ring) opponent, but I can take that as a promotional tool.
I don't have a particular "dog" in this race, btw, it's just that I'm hearing a distorted narrative whereby every day in NSB a guy who just got a gift draw and has fought cans in front of small crowds is suddenly some all-conquering high flyer who's got people running scared with $50 billion trillion squillion offer that apparently was real.
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