Wilder will get good paydays fighting anyone. Fury clearing "his" insulted name would seem to trump anyone else's moral code excuses. Do you think Ali would run from clearing his name? Marciano? Dempsey? even Klitschko?
Per Wilder: after a beating like that (gloves or whatever), does not pressing to fight the supposed best HW in the world not show something admirable in his complex character? He's "begging", arguing, fighting to fight the world's best who "demolished" him. Who runs to that for more?
Wilder obviously BELIEVES something was wrong ... and wants to prove it in the ring. He's not asking for a ruling that there was cheating ... he wants the contracted 3rd fight to prove there was an aberration. He wants to FIGHT to clear it up! Surely in the sport of BOXING this is an acceptable way to settle it.
I don't know if Wilder will ever beat Fury. But there are/were issues with the 2nd fight in many peoples eyes (no matter how any one of us view it). Thus it's controversial. A 3rd fight was contracted. Whether injury or an unprecendented pandemic caused the delays ... it's still very possible to settle all of it IN THE RING. This is Boxing .... it couldn't be more appropriate.
Per Wilder: after a beating like that (gloves or whatever), does not pressing to fight the supposed best HW in the world not show something admirable in his complex character? He's "begging", arguing, fighting to fight the world's best who "demolished" him. Who runs to that for more?
Wilder obviously BELIEVES something was wrong ... and wants to prove it in the ring. He's not asking for a ruling that there was cheating ... he wants the contracted 3rd fight to prove there was an aberration. He wants to FIGHT to clear it up! Surely in the sport of BOXING this is an acceptable way to settle it.
I don't know if Wilder will ever beat Fury. But there are/were issues with the 2nd fight in many peoples eyes (no matter how any one of us view it). Thus it's controversial. A 3rd fight was contracted. Whether injury or an unprecendented pandemic caused the delays ... it's still very possible to settle all of it IN THE RING. This is Boxing .... it couldn't be more appropriate.

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