How long will Deontay Wilder avoid the top heavyweights?

[ykdadamaja]

Ask yourself: Who did Dillian Whyte fight before Joshua? NO ONE! So why was this a "big" fight? Because of some old, grainy amateur fight video with Joshua getting knocked on his ass in some back-room - looked smoky- British pub that passed for an amateur fight venue for the time. That and Whyte seemingly likes to talk Shiite, which made for as entertaining a promo as Fury gives.

[Silkeyjoe]

Who has Wilder beat? Stiverne? Who has he beat? Arreola? Sure theyre shit so what makes Wilder any use? Surely its by judging how he performed in his fights. It doesnt take a genius to see Joshua will likely be top class. Just like it didnt take a genius to see Golovkin is class. Joshua might lose to Fury, Wilder or even Haye, but hes a strong fav over every fighter that isnt at world level.

[ykdadamaja]

Who has Wilder beat? Stiverne? Who has he beat? Arreola? Sure theyre shit so what makes Wilder any use? Surely its by judging how he performed in his fights. It doesnt take a genius to see Joshua will likely be top class. Just like it didnt take a genius to see Golovkin is class. Joshua might lose to Fury, Wilder or even Haye, but hes a strong fav over every fighter that isnt at world level.

I'm not saying Wilder is the man for getting soft fights either. But he had a lot more going for him at the time than Joshua did. In fact, Stiverne was made credible after beating stiff journeymen... look at Stiverne's record.

Now, as said and I will say again, Joshua CAN get there. But he is not there yet.

[Silkeyjoe]

Exactly. Look at his record. Its garbage. KO Loss to Demetrice King, Majority Draw with Charles Davis. Hes a decent fighter but hes nothing special. Sure he struggled big time with Derric Rossy a guy that Joshua or Whyte would blast out. Judging by Stivernes last performance youd fancy Whyte to beat him.

[Fenster]

Even at this stage there's not much between Wilder/Joshua on paper.

Wilder can chin out anyone if he catches you right but nobody can seriously watch him and think he is more skilled than AJ. Wilder's only chance would be to bang him out before he gets banged out. Unlikely.

Fat arse Stiverne isn't going past 4 rounds.

[johnsebastianmiran]

How deep is the ocean?

[ray corso]

I think the money that backed him at the beginning is recouping some of it with "home town cooking".
Theres nothing wrong with it every champion does it when they first get a belt. I think he will fight Povetkin sp) farely soon and I think he will give him a good fight. If the kid can continue to relax in the ring while maintaining hardline focus he will do ok in his career. He's actually got decent head movement unfortunetly his hands drop and leans in far to often but Fury does the same thing when he throws.
None of these guys have strong techniques but they bring some excitement and thats been missing far to long.

Ray