Historical perspective on Deontay Wilder's 10 consecutive title defenses

[LacedUp]

I think it's hilarious that you've spent the last 4 years trashing Golovkin, including trashing his long reign of title defenses saying that opponents have been average at best.. yet here you are, taking the other side of the argument with a fighter with same quality of opposition and nowhere near the longevity.

Or let's try it another way, when Wlad was approaching the longest title reign in HW history (24 I believe?), were you one of the people who kept repeating that it's the weakest era of HWs and the record counts for nothing? Not saying you did, not saying you didn't, but maybe one day I'll be bored and fact check that.

Certainly seems hypocritical. Most of GGGs defenses were genuine top 10 contenders.

Most of Wilders, are not.

[Offic.Scorecard]

Lol this is pathetic way more than the American boxing establishment painting Andre Ward as some kind of legend.
You were the first one to take a dump on Golovkin's resume but in reality Golovkin was constantly fighting top 10 opponents in his divison, was always looking to fight a highest ranked middleweight and was being ducked by the other middleweights.
Wilder, he ducked Klitschko, Povetkin, Whyte and Joshua (althought I'd favor him over Whyte, Joshua and this version of Povetkin), barely fought a top 10 contender, and he never tried to unify. Tyson and Lennox went to unify the titles, in fact since becoming a champion, it took Tyson 3 fights to become the undisputed champion. Also he wasn't able to get 2 or all of the 3 belts from a single fighter as at that point there was 3 different champions, so he went to fight one after another, with only 1 defense in between.

[YGriffith]

For the haters, who did Joe Louis defend against?

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Wilder has only ever faced one elite fighter, and LOST.

[N/A]

His 10 consecutive defenses are complete and utter bulls**t.

He's #1 in Boxrec now. The trolls and haters are going to have to find a different fighter to complain about.

He won his title from Bermane Stiverne when Wladimir Klitschko was the real champion.

Vitali was the real champion, not Wladimir. Vitali retired. Wilder won the real belt. Wladimir never pursued the real belt.

Now there’s two others who claim to be heavyweight champion.

The WBC has always had the best claim to being the real world title. If you think there are too many champions, stop paying attention to lesser titles.

The idea that he’s done anything of historical significance is hilarious.

He's been WBC heavyweight champion of the world for nearly 5 years. He's made 10 successful defenses. It is historically significant. It's one of the most successful reigns in heavyweight history.

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He's #1 in Boxrec now. The trolls and haters are going to have to find a different fighter to complain about.




Vitali was the real champion, not Wladimir. Vitali retired. Wilder won the real belt. Wladimir never pursued the real belt.




The WBC has always had the best claim to being the real world title. If you think there are too many champions, stop paying attention to lesser titles.




He's been WBC heavyweight champion of the world for nearly 5 years. He's made 10 successful defenses. It is historically significant. It's one of the most successful reigns in heavyweight history.

He lost to Fury.

Wilder is a fake, plastic bum, and can never call himself a real champion until he beats Tyson Fury. His "reign" is the biggest joke in boxing.

[redmish]

Barring the Ortiz fights and the Fury defeat(in my opinion) his defences have been very poor against fighters that never deserved a shot. I actually think he's improved of late though.

[Larry the boss]

Berbick beating Ali is a great win. Ali was one fight removed from being heavyweight champion of the world, even if he was old and shot. Berbick’s win over Ali is better than anything Wilder has done in his career.

The undefeated fighters in Wilder’s six fight bum stretch during his title reign is Gerald Washington. You can’t compare him to the undefeated fighters I mentioned in Lewis’ resume. Prior to the Lewis fight, Akinwande beat Tony Tucker and Axel Schultz. Maybe you can compare him to Mavrovic but I’ve seen his fight against Lewis and I think he’s much better than Washington.

LOL...BERBICK BEATING ALI WAS GREAT???? came out of retirement and got beat pillar to post by Holmes and was clearly sick....im done after that first line

[Jeff Da Maori]

The only HW champ to win the title without having to fight a single top 10 contender along the way.

He's a manufactured champion.

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He lost to Fury.

No, he didn't and I'm not interested in wasting time arguing with you when you're clearly delusional and unable to accept indisputable fact. The fight was a draw. Period. If you disagree with the judges, good for you. Lots of ringside observers had the fight a draw. I was one of them. A few had Wilder winning. But less than half had Fury winning. More than had Wilder winning, sure. But a draw was such a common score at ringside that combined with those that had Wilder winning, a Fury win was actually a minority opinion among ringside experts.

AP, ESPN, Yahoo, LA Times, Sporting News, Washington Post, etc all had a draw or Wilder winning. When that many top level publications don't have Fury winning, you can't cry robbery when the official decision is a draw.