I remember when Arreola was the next big thing, "The Nightmare". Simply didn't live up to the hype.
His title fight with Stiverne seemed to appear out of thin air as far as I was concerned.
Wilder boxed pretty well to beat Stiverne but neither man looked special and Wilder, who boxed fairly well on the night, would go to fight a bunch of patsies and fail to develop beyond his straight right.
Wilder on track to fight Vitali is interesting. I never saw that fight happening at all and I doubt he retired just to escape Wilder.
Then of course you've got Finkel's "baby champion" speech when asked about Wlad. This instantly casts Stiverne as inferior, which was the general opinion at the time anyway.
His title fight with Stiverne seemed to appear out of thin air as far as I was concerned.
Wilder boxed pretty well to beat Stiverne but neither man looked special and Wilder, who boxed fairly well on the night, would go to fight a bunch of patsies and fail to develop beyond his straight right.
Wilder on track to fight Vitali is interesting. I never saw that fight happening at all and I doubt he retired just to escape Wilder.
Then of course you've got Finkel's "baby champion" speech when asked about Wlad. This instantly casts Stiverne as inferior, which was the general opinion at the time anyway.

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