If Wilder loses...

[Maravilla2012]

Wilder is a question mark but if he loses he doesn't fall far I think. Hes untested its not like he'd lose to an unknown heavyweight. Stiverne is a legit heavyweight so Wilder losing to him shouldn't be a big deal its a 50/50 fight ( if Wilder is the real deal ). I'm more interested on how he would handle the loss. Would he crumble and end up being another over hyped fighter? Or will he go back to his gym and improve the fighter he is and come back better?

[Max Power]

Modern HW is held to such a ridiculous standard these days.

In the past, double digit losses were a sign of character.

Today even a single loss and you are apparently "exposed" as a bum LOL

[beenKOed]

Whether anybody rates him or not, it will be bad for boxing. Boxing needs him to be the "real deal" because he is an athlete and people love KO's. No guarantees though, but we are going to learn exactly what he is all about.

Boxing is not about celebrity or KO's it is bout great fights, if Wilder was not American you would of never heard of him.

Boxing is about celebrities, KOs, and great exciting fights. How can you be so confused about what boxing is?

[Master]

Modern HW is held to such a ridiculous standard these days.

In the past, double digit losses were a sign of character.

Today even a single loss and you are apparently "exposed" as a bum LOL

With so much TV exposure fighters fight less and are more manufactured to win titles. They have less time to develop and learn the skills they need to be successful.

[Max Power]

Modern HW is held to such a ridiculous standard these days.

In the past, double digit losses were a sign of character.

Today even a single loss and you are apparently "exposed" as a bum LOL

With so much TV exposure fighters fight less and are more manufactured to win titles. They have less time to develop and learn the skills they need to be successful.

That's not true. Instead of fighting bum fights more often, they fight quality opponents less often and have far more sparring and mitt work in between fights.

In the past bummy opponents sometimes got top ranked. In the past fighters earned title shots by beating unranked bums and even by LOSING fights.

Atleast today, even if a guy like Wilder has bummed his way to 31-0, he atleast will never again be able to fight a bummy opponent if he manages to beat a good one now.

Your mate Muhammad decided to stage a title defence against a cruiser bum, Jimmy Young and never landed a significant punch in the entire fight and lost clearly, yet again, unsurprisingly, robs the guy of the win. And shortly after again, takes on another cruiser bum, this time a 6 fight green, there's some REAL skilful experience there! And who won that fight too?

Take a look at this article...

Are bums of the Klitschko era better than top fighters of Ali's era? | Box statistics, analysis of boxing history records, stats of boxing eras

Pretend you don't know who the boxers are whilst reading the stats.

I will tell you right now, boxer 2010 is modern day bum-buster Deontay Wilder.

And boxer 1970 is PAST-day bum-buster+cruiser-cruncher Kenny Norton.

Calling the competition of Wilder pathetic is only RELATIVE to this era.

Compared with previous eras, Wilder's competition isn't quite as bad as your trying to sell, and this is the WORST case in recent times of bum-busting we have seen from a top ranked opponent!

Besdies, because Wilder fights bums, he does so more often, in fact he has among the quickest fight turn-overs.

Obviously the tougher the opponents you fight, the more preparation and recovery between events necessary and the less often you can and should fight them!

[Master]

How many times did you mention bum?

[Max Power]

How many times did you mention bum?

For Christ sake I am not covering for Wilder, he fights "those guys" alright. It's just I think your perspective is blinded.

[Master]

How many times did you mention bum?

For Christ sake I am not covering for Wilder, he fights "those guys" alright. It's just I think your perspective is blinded.

Do you understand the concept of irony?

[Max Power]

How many times did you mention bum?

For Christ sake I am not covering for Wilder, he fights "those guys" alright. It's just I think your perspective is blinded.

Do you understand the concept of irony?

Yes @Master,

I DO see the conundrum here.

Wilder is NOT the standard that ALL the boxers in the HW division have elevated themselves by.

He is a project to see if this method can work.

Personally I don't like it. I think something should be done as you climb the rankings so that you are unable to climb higher until you BEAT higher ranked fighters.

That makes intuitive sense. That way you can make your extra small cash by pasting these guys left and right but forcing you to step it up if you wanna crack the big time.

[Master]

How many times did you mention bum?

For Christ sake I am not covering for Wilder, he fights "those guys" alright. It's just I think your perspective is blinded.

Do you understand the concept of irony?

Yes @Master,

I DO see the conundrum here.

Wilder is NOT the standard that ALL the boxers in the HW division have elevated themselves by.

He is a project to see if this method can work.

Personally I don't like it. I think something should be done as you climb the rankings so that you are unable to climb higher until you BEAT higher ranked fighters.

That makes intuitive sense. That way you can make your extra small cash by pasting these guys left and right but forcing you to step it up if you wanna crack the big time.

Moorer got a title shot without ever fighting a top 10 fighter.

[Max Power]

How many times did you mention bum?

For Christ sake I am not covering for Wilder, he fights "those guys" alright. It's just I think your perspective is blinded.

Do you understand the concept of irony?

Yes @Master,

I DO see the conundrum here.

Wilder is NOT the standard that ALL the boxers in the HW division have elevated themselves by.

He is a project to see if this method can work.

Personally I don't like it. I think something should be done as you climb the rankings so that you are unable to climb higher until you BEAT higher ranked fighters.

That makes intuitive sense. That way you can make your extra small cash by pasting these guys left and right but forcing you to step it up if you wanna crack the big time.

Moorer got a title shot without ever fighting a top 10 fighter.

Yeah but that sort of thing I'm not that concerned about and guys jumping up form lower divs is what confuses it.

Moorer was a champion boxer before he entered the division.

Guys from Cruiser and Light Heavy etc fought all there bums IN those divisions, then they pretty much jump right in with quality opponents when they hit heavy. It's how it is.

Guys who've always fought heavy like Wilder start right at the bottom. Except it's pretty clear that by 30 fights, Moorer's competition had significantly more quality than Wilder's.

Basically I have no problem with a boxer circumventing the rankings somewhat if they have been a champion boxer in a lower div first and then built up.

[Master]

Remember Vaughan Bean? He got a shot and I do not know how other than having the right connections ie Don King.

[Max Power]

Remember Vaughan Bean? He got a shot and I do not know how other than having the right connections ie Don King.

Point noted.

In every era, opponents have gotten shots who never actually worked for it.

I don't care about guys like Haye and Moorer who were champs in lower divs.

But it has occurred in all eras.

I concede. You have me here.

CONCLUSION: I think there can be applied a fair as fair can be formula of ranking fighters according to the quality of the opposition they fight with regards purely to their own era, no nostalgic comparisons necessary. And I think it should be implemented.

And I also credit you too @Master with hitting the nail on the head why it is not applied.

MONEY! And the powers that be (i.e. King) that put it up.

In other words the rankings systems are corrupt.

Someone recently right here was trying to tell me how Boxrec had it right with a "fair points system" LOL I forget the poster but of course I disagree.

All I can say is that I disagree with bum-busting as a method to reach the top. Whether they are modern or not!

In fact I'll give you another concession.

Even though I don't consider the cruiser opponents of guys like Norton or Liston as valid HW opponents when comparing today (I view Wilder as having a better record) I acknowledge that against the criteria of their day, these WERE valid HW opponents and if treated as such, their records are in fact better!

Relatively speaking, Wilder is a worse bum-buster than Liston and Norton!

You have me reduced here to merely a weight argument!

[Master]

I would not call Liston or Norton a bum.

What is your definition for a bum?

[Max Power]

I would not call Liston or Norton a bum.

What is your definition for a bum?

Norton and Liston WERE bum busters by definition that most of their REAL HW (200+) opponents had lost more than a quarter of their fights.

If you consider their sub 200+ opponents in their records (of which their records were significantly or even largely composed) then their records are inflated to be better against modern HW boxers records.

The reason this distinction IS important in a cross era comparison is that TODAY if they were to box, that portion of their record would be considered part of their cruiser record (one in which they were HW's fighting CW's hence had a significant weight advantage which they would not be permitted nowadays.

It's only when you put CW back to CW and delete bums that you can make an accurate HW comparison between eras.

To put it another way, if you want to include olden days boxers cruiser records as valid HW records (as they were then) then that's fine, but you THEN have to include guys like David Haye's entire career as a valid HW career too (as it was then) and all of his opponents. It then becomes very clear how much better quality opponents Haye fought, beat and how many he KOed than these guys.

You cannot have it both ways!

I simplify all this by deleting all bums and cruisers off records when making such a comparison. In my opinion, you must!