I don't think you can give wilder much credit at all for the opponents he has taken on since winning the belt, it looked to me like he was cleary trying to find the lowest ranked guy possible to take on in his last defence.. Just look at the names he was rumoured to fight before they settled on the frenchman, the wbc even rejected hughie fury as a possible opponent :S and the japanese heavyweight even mysteriously showed up in the wbc rankings....... and now he wants another optional defence, Wilder is unfortunatley a perfect example of a paper champion, which is a shame because i quite like him.

If he dodges povetkin for his next fight I hope he takes on Briggs, seeing briggs get ko'd would be an acceptable to substitute