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Wilder is very flawed and incomplete, but he is fun. He goes all out with the bombs, which makes his fights quite exciting.

I think I can name a few worse boxers who held heavyweight 'titles' .... Charles Martin, Bruce Seldon, John Ruiz, Francesco Damiani and Henry Akinwande were all worse. Wilder would also have crushed the much smaller Roy Jones Jr too.
Hang on a minute, How was Damiani worse than Wilder? He got robbed out of a Gold Medal against Tyrell Biggs and he then avenged that in the pros. Biggs gave Lennox Lewis a hiding before robbing Damiani in the final as well. He also beat Greg Page. Who has Wilder beat that is better than Tyrell Biggs or Greg Page.

You make a fair point, but I think the original thread was about professional heavyweight titleholders.

Damiani was an excellent amateur (the Italians have always produced good amateurs at heavyweight).

It's probably fair to say that he didn't really translate that into the pros, like many many really good amateurs.

AS A PRO, I still contend that Damiani was amongst the weakest heavyweight titleholders, even though it was the lightly regarded WBO title .... and also while Iron Mike was dominating the other titles.