Quote Originally Posted by jehoshaphat View Post
Onetime does have a point. Lets keep Wilder in perspective. He has a total fight experience, amateur and pro, of less than 150 rounds. As a pro...less than 150 minutes experience. If he was ranked or given a cheesy title shot at this point then I would be on the bus of criticism as well but the guy is greener than a brussel sprout. He took up the sport in his 20s as a basketball reject. I know us Americans want a great heavyweight right now but lets be realistic. Dude needs some years still. He really hasn't learned enough in his pro fights because they average less than 2 rounds per. I know its risky but if I was his trainer I wouldn't be wholeheartedly against him carrying an opponent or two. I bet we can take a poll right now and find that many of us have more fight experience than Wilder.
I agree.. I saw on the show last night he only had 35 or something amatuer fights and he managed to win a medal at the olympics, thats not bad... His pro career has been a bit odd and not really that impressive at all and his windmill punching v harrison was rather amusing but I thought he looked like he has something fairly special v the white wolf.. Wilder has fast hands and he looks to be able to generate nasty power fairly easily, finished of the fight last night very well but he clearly needs to start fighting guys who have boxing skills, I would think Kevin johnstone would be a great opponent for him, he's a runner with fair skills and would make wilder work over far more rounds than he is used to doing but it seems like his going after arreola or mitchell next, which would be a better win if he emerges victorius but i tihnk he would learn less than fighting kingpin..