Deontay Wilder vs. Chris Arreola

[p4pking]

About as good a fight as you could have expected for a voluntary from Wilder. I think Arreola is pretty much shit now though, would be surprised if he made this interesting.

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

About as good a fight as you could have expected for a voluntary from Wilder. I think Arreola is pretty much shit now though, would be surprised if he made this interesting.

So Arreola gets his head wobbled by Stiverne twice and still gets to fight Wilder while Fury is left scratching his head.

[p4pking]

Fury had the Klitschko rematch first I think no matter what, but yeah. Also I think he still has the WBA title? Louis Ortiz is the interm champ for that and would actually fight him or anyone I suspect, that's a better one to hope for. Gave Wilder credit for taking the Povetkin fight in Russia, but he sort of had to. I don't see him going to the UK to unify, which he would also probably have to do.

[Master]

Fury had the Klitschko rematch first I think no matter what, but yeah. Also I think he still has the WBA title? Louis Ortiz is the interm champ for that and would actually fight him or anyone I suspect, that's a better one to hope for. Gave Wilder credit for taking the Povetkin fight in Russia, but he sort of had to. I don't see him going to the UK to unify, which he would also probably have to do.

If Wilder was going to fight Povetkin in Russia I am sure he would be prepared to come to UK to face Fury or AJ.

[SlimTrae]

Fury had the Klitschko rematch first I think no matter what, but yeah. Also I think he still has the WBA title? Louis Ortiz is the interm champ for that and would actually fight him or anyone I suspect, that's a better one to hope for. Gave Wilder credit for taking the Povetkin fight in Russia, but he sort of had to. I don't see him going to the UK to unify, which he would also probably have to do.

If Wilder was going to fight Povetkin in Russia I am sure he would be prepared to come to UK to face Fury or AJ.

Good point. I was ready to throw Wilder under the bus for even entertaining the idea of fighting Arreola.
Arreola just went life and death with harpoon harper. who per fight record previous loss was to a 4-0 opponent.

[Freedom]

If Wilder was going to fight Povetkin in Russia I am sure he would be prepared to come to UK to face Fury or AJ.

But did he ever really intend to fight Povetkin, or was he looking for a way out?

And he certainly was very reluctant to go ("it's too cold").

Difficult to imagine Wilder, who has been VERY protected, going to the UK to fight a heavyweight close to his own size - especially someone with Fury's skills or Joshua's power.

[p4pking]

Wilder was already in Russia when Povetkin failed the VADA test, pretty hard to play that card. He lost the purse bid in that fight and had to go to keep his title was the thing, I agree it's hard to see him going to the UK to unify when he won't have to.

[TitoFan]

Arreola has a decent chance.

That being said, if Wilder ever gets a good trainer who rids him of his amateurish, wild shot bullshit.... he'll immediately become the dominant HW of this era today.