Who's the most protected heavyweight champion in history?

[Bcell77]

Primo carnera by a huge stretch.

[mjh1969]

Off the top, I'm going with these three:

- Wilder: never unified and fought selected overmatched Uber drivers tailor-made for him in his title defenses.

- Fury: the ultimate opportunist and Chisora is the biggest name on his resume, apart from Wladmir and Wilder. Never defended his titles nor honoured signed rematches.

- Mike Tyson: looked great against mid-level fighters but never won against an elite fighter.

Couldn't agree with you more. Add Joshua to that list as well. He has fought a lot of tomato cans.

[Rip Chudd]

I still can't believe this guy got away with not unifying once in 42 fights, lol.

You are aware he wasn't a champ for all 42 of his fights right?

But yeah, he needs to fight AJ.

[Floyd is TBE]

Joshua. He gets too much credit for fighting an old Wlad who was coming off a loss and a layoff

[Mr.365]

Anthony Joshua
Tyson Fury
Deontay Wilder

[uppercut510]

you should have just named the thread; WILDER is the most protected heavyweight in HW history.

[BangEM]

You are aware he wasn't a champ for all 42 of his fights right?

But yeah, he needs to fight AJ.

Just mentioned the no of fights he has had to show it has nothing to do with experience. He’s a bum beater who has been protected throughout his career.

I don’t even think he’ll get 20% of whatever money he makes from Josh and Fury, if and when they fight. He’ll have to pay WBC for doing a great job in protecting him. Haymon, Finkel and Dibella for their investment. And Deas will also take a big chunk. He’s their meal ticket.

[tonysoprano]

It makes me laugh that Wilders 28th professional fight was against...Audley Harrison. And even that was the totally washed up version of Fraudley.

That says it all. You literally can't be more protected than that.

[Luilun]

Wilder fought 40 bums than fought 40 year Ortiz than loses 10 of 12 rounds to Fury they give him a draw to save his belt I don't know any Champ thats been protected that much

[LacedUp]

probably floyd patterson.