Why Do People Pretend That Wilder Wasn't Signed to Fight the #2 HW in The World.....

[therealpugilist]

The bar is set higher for all US fighters...regardless of weight class and manager.

It's set higher because they know we're the best.

basically.....oh and dont let the fighter be of a certain demographic......hell, we've had guys with hall of fame type resumes get trashed by those fools time and time again yet the same idiots will pump up an unproven fighter of a different nationality and demographic...i wonder why...

[Kigali]

basically.....oh and dont let the fighter be of a certain demographic......hell, we've had guys with hall of fame type resumes get trashed by those fools time and time again yet the same idiots will pump up an unproven fighter of a different nationality and demographic...i wonder why...

Because they KNOW we're the best.

[boliodogs]

He was signed to fight him and that was a good thing. It's wasn't his fault the fight didn't happen. The bad thing is he went right back to defending his title against unworthy challengers when he could have fought better heavyweights.

[yammy25]

Because they KNOW we're the best.

You arent even black

[therealpugilist]

Because they KNOW we're the best.

^^^^nuff said

[original zero]

Dude Wilder has been fighting nothing but bums his whole title "reign"

He completely dominated the TBRB #3 to win his title. That is a better win than any current heavyweight champion has. He then knocked out Johann Duhaupas, who may not have been well known at the time, but he went on to knock out undefeated Robert Helenius, which vaulted Duhaupas into the TBRB top ten for the last six months of 2016.

So no, Wilder has not just been fighting bums. Wilder has the best resume of any current heavyweight champion.

he is afraid to fight the best

If he's afraid, why did he fly to Moscow to fight the TBRB #1?

Your position doesn't make any sense.

You're an idiot and a loser, so you minimize the accomplishments of others to make yourself feel better about your own shortcomings.

Losers have a loser attitude that winners can smell from a mile away. I guarantee in your real life you are a giant failure, which is why you spew ignorance on the internet.

[therealpugilist]

You arent even black

you dont have to be black to see what goes on and to understand it

american fighters are held to a higher standard than most....add in al haymon and if the guy is black...expect the butthurt and insults to roll in hard....double standards

[original zero]

you are claiming that hbo has right of first refusal over ortiz yet they dont even have that with crawford. doesnt make a whole lot of sense.

Arum is smarter than Oscar. Which is why Ortiz paid a million dollars to get the **** away from Oscar.

[yammy25]

you dont have to be black to see what goes on and to understand it

american fighters are held to a higher standard than most....add in al haymon and if the guy is black...expect the butthurt and insults to roll in hard....double standards

American fighters as a whole are held to a higher standard.. not because of skin color and certainly not just the Haymon fighters.

You guys ask a higher standard of them through patriotism, which is the same as us in the UK or mexico with our respective athletes etc etc, and we hold americans to a higher standard because your athletes tend to shout a little louder than others, and your fanbase blows more smoke up more arse holes than other countries.

No-one holds an athlete from the states to a higher standard, based purely because they're black haymon fighters.... maybe apart from freedom.

[LacedUp]

Fights require proper promotion and you have to work with the networks to book the available dates. After the Povetkin fight, they had to scramble to get him in the ring, get a network date, find a venue and promote the event. What elite heavyweights would have been willing to take that fight on such short notice with little time to promote the event?

So why again was he pressed to take a short notice fight?

I'm still baffled anyone would think that that date was the only possible date for Wilder. Clearly, he should have chosen a date in September, given himself a break, fight a real fighter with genuine promotion and maybe he would have avoided injury as well.

But for some odd reason, he chose to fight less than two months after the first scheduled bout and then conveniently fights a completely fat and out of shape arreola who hadn't done anything for years